Comments for Jeff Sawyer

Comment on brite-View CinemaTube 1080P HD Review by Jeff

Jeff — Sat, 30 Jan 2010 16:16:03 +0000

@David
To be fair, I should have said in the review that I haven’t used any of the competitions products yet — this is still true. I’d love to try more of the products out there, but I got this as a gift and it’s been pretty good so far.

Here’s my thoughts based on specs alone though:
The CinemaTube uses the Realtek 1073 chipset I believe and the Xtreamer uses Realtek 128X. The Xtreamer’s chipset is similar, but may have a few more advanced features. I’m not entirely sure what the differences are and would need to look into this more… However, I think for things like the video quality output — probably about the same.

That being said, I was pretty impressed by the Xtreamer from a purely technical point of view. I don’t think you could go wrong with either one. If the Xstreamer is easier for you to get your hands on though - it looks like a very strong product.

Comment on brite-View CinemaTube 1080P HD Review by David

David — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 03:31:41 +0000

Hi Jeff,

Do you have any experience with Xtreamer? If so, how would you rate one against the other? I use a mac as well and wanted to know how they stacked up against each other both in terms of features and mac friendliness. Thanks,

David

Comment on brite-View CinemaTube 1080P HD Review by Jeff

Jeff — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 02:48:09 +0000

@Frustrated
Check out Brite-View’s blog at http://briteview.wordpress.com/2010/01/11/how-do-i-use-the-file-copy-feature-new/ — looks like they have a beta firmware that allows the feature you’re requesting!

Comment on brite-View CinemaTube 1080P HD Review by Jeff

Jeff — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 23:51:27 +0000

@Frustrated
Glad I could help. I know it’s kind of a hack of a solution, but it’s a solution at least…

Unfortunately, I don’t have a solution for copying from the computer to the HDD connected to your CinemaTube. I’ll ask some other people I know that own the device, but I don’t think there’s a way to do this.

Comment on brite-View CinemaTube 1080P HD Review by Frustrated

Frustrated — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 22:25:49 +0000

One more thing. Is it possible to copy files from my Mac to HDD attached to cinema tube? I have tried to use ‘Connect to server’ using smb:// but I am not able to connect to cinematube. I hope that you have a trick to do this. Thanks for your help.