E: WSL Pinnacle ShowCenter 1000g £69.97 PCWorld instore only

withabix

This model has been partly superceded by the ShowCenter 200, but for £69.97 it's a steal. Was £200 and still is £150+ in most places!!

Includes 802.11g wireless card in the box, or can be hard wired to your home network.

If you don't know what it is, go here:

http://www.pinnaclesys.com/PublicSite/uk/Products/Consumer+Products/Digital+Media+Adapters/Digital+Media+Player/ShowCenter+1000g.htm

overide

Thanks, been after one of these. Will pop down and check it out.

djblamire

Worth giving them a call first.

I've checked all the stores in my area, and they don't have any left

Daniel

madmackem

djblamire - what area is that? just to save me the trouble :-)

welshblob

Removed incorrect comment.

Gem+Dave+Kaci

Have people had any luck finding these?? I desperatly want one of these but my local store hasn't got any so I'd be happy to pay someone a bit extra if they could post one to me??
Thanks!!

dc2447

Agree it is a good price but why do these devices always require windows ?

hendersonb

The pinnacle show center doesn indeed play xViDs and DivXs natively, it also has support for MPEG 2 natively. I brought one of these last summer for £120 from PC World. From what I have used it i like it. Although I don't use the pinnacle software that was suppliede with it. I use a program called swisscenter https://www.swisscenter.co.uk.

There are another few programs available for free for running the pinnacle box from, these can be found quite easily from google or believe it or not the pinnacle support forums. Currently pinnacle only give you windows software which was the reason for me using swisscenter as I run a Linux server for it

dc2447

hendersonb wrote:

The pinnacle show center doesn indeed play xViDs and DivXs natively, it also has support for MPEG 2 natively. I brought one of these last summer for £120 from PC World. From what I have used it i like it. Although I don't use the pinnacle software that was suppliede with it. I use a program called swisscenter https://www.swisscenter.co.uk.

There are another few programs available for free for running the pinnacle box from, these can be found quite easily from google or believe it or not the pinnacle support forums. Currently pinnacle only give you windows software which was the reason for me using swisscenter as I run a Linux server for it

Interesting - I only have Linux here so how does it work? Is there just a Linux server backend that the box talks to?

If it doesn't support MPEG4 how do you handle that?

hendersonb

Sorry meant to say does play divx / xvid nativley - only simple profile though

The show center basically just conects to the server via http.

On the server you need a web server and php for swisscenter to work - I have mine running on a via epia box located in another room with no keyboard/monitor just acting as a central file server. It isn't really too difficult to setup - only thing about using linux is you need to convert everything to a compatible format yourself - not tried wma/mmv etc not sure if it will play them - certainly won't play anything with DRM in it.

Another nice thing is if you have the box connected to the internet via your lan you can use it to listen to internet radio (namely shoutcast streams). There are a lot of stations out there much more than on sky/DAB etc.

dc2447

Sorry meant to say does play divx / xvid nativley - only simple profile though

Simple profile?

On the server you need a web server and php for swisscenter to work - I have mine running on a via epia box located in another room with no keyboard/monitor just acting as a central file server. It isn't really too difficult to setup - only thing about using linux is you need to convert everything to a compatible format yourself - not tried wma/mmv etc not sure if it will play them - certainly won't play anything with DRM in it.

I certainly don't have any WMA/WMV - it's all VOB, OGG, MP3 and Divx. The PHP webserver part is a breeze I have a webserver laready

I'm sold on this - new toy first thing in the morning. Many thanks for the heads up - really appreciate it.