Works but could be better I have a lot of experience with "media extender" products and either own or have used most on the market. The EVA8000 has good codec support and with the exception of pre WM9 files played everthing I threw at it. A unique feature that I havent seen on any other extender is the ability to playback DRM'd files purchased from the iTunes store. The EVA8000 was able to find media files stored on my multiple PC's and on my TerraStation with ease. If your media files are not tagged and no...
[Netgear EVA8000 Digital Entertainer HD review by A Customer can be read at buy.com] | Overall Rating: 8.0 |  |
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| Reviewed by: | A Customer | | Review Date: | 03/30/2007 | | User Location: | Los Angeles CA | | Review From: | User Review |  |  |
100% (14 of 14) Users Found This Review Helpful |
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Good potential, but not for non-technical users I really like this device, it's got great potential. However I should note that this unit is for techical users - not-technical users will probably be better off with iTV.
This box plays a lot more formats and has a lot more features - but it compromises on ease of use. If you are the kind of person that likes to tinker - this is definitely a good fit for you. Make sure that 1st thing you do after plugging it in (which was really quick and painless) is register on NetGear forums an...
[Netgear EVA8000 Digital Entertainer HD review can be read at Amazon.com] | Overall Rating: 8.0 | |
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| Reviewed by: | | | Review Date: | 05/15/2007 | | User Location: | | | Review From: | User Review |  | | |
95% (22 of 23) Users Found This Review Helpful |
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Overall a Good product Tested it over wired network. It was easy to set up and the box was up and running in 30 minutes. It takes about 20 minutes to scan specified folders on your PC for pictures, music and video. Quality of streamed audio, video and pictures is excellent. Tested file formats: .avi, .mp3, .wmv, .mpeg, .mov. No iusses.
YouTube videos played just fine. You need to have Netgear Digital Entertainer software running on the PC for this feature to work.
No issues playing internet...
[Netgear EVA8000 Digital Entertainer HD review can be read at Amazon.com] | Overall Rating: 8.0 | |
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| Reviewed by: | | | Review Date: | 04/08/2007 | | User Location: | | | Review From: | User Review | | | |
86% (13 of 15) Users Found This Review Helpful |
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Not ready for Prime Time This product needs some software and firmware upgrades to make it a viable media center. Specifically the UI structure still seems to be in Beta mode. Setup was painless (altho if you are VISTA OS make sure you upgrade the firmware), Internet Radio worked well and playing AVI & WMV files worked well, it could not find my iTunes playlists either. But the biggest bust is the confused state of the UI which makes this product unusable (especially for VOB files). Tech Support was from abroad and was ...
[Netgear EVA8000 Digital Entertainer HD review can be read at Amazon.com] | Overall Rating: 6.0 | |
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| Reviewed by: | | | Review Date: | 05/06/2007 | | User Location: | | | Review From: | User Review | | | |
85% (18 of 21) Users Found This Review Helpful |
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could do much more The main things I use this device for are:
1) playback of ripped DVDs
2) playback of high-definition home videos
I haven't owned a cd player in over five years since I started ripping my music cd's and playing them back through mp3 players and audio streamers. Now that I can purchase music online, physical discs are quickly becoming obsolete for me as well. My hope was that with this video streamer, I would be able to do with my DVD collection what I did with my CD colle...
[Netgear EVA8000 Digital Entertainer HD review can be read at Amazon.com] | Overall Rating: 8.0 | |
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| Reviewed by: | | | Review Date: | 12/01/2007 | | User Location: | | | Review From: | User Review | | | |
84% (11 of 13) Users Found This Review Helpful |
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DISMISS REVIEWS WRITTEN PRIOR TO DEC 07 I have owned this unit since it's release and all of these peoples frustrations with this unit were justified. Now let my say that with the latest firmware on this machine it becomes everything promised and then some. The support team is superb and I have seen many unique and unadvertised functions added solely on the request of users. Any one who complains about using the menus to operate must be dumber than a box of rocks, it is extremely easy to use. They have updated the firmware about every...
[Netgear EVA8000 Digital Entertainer HD review can be read at Amazon.com] | Overall Rating: 10 | |
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| Reviewed by: | | | Review Date: | 01/27/2008 | | User Location: | | | Review From: | User Review | | | |
83% (10 of 12) Users Found This Review Helpful |
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Very cool If you've seen AppleTV but want to play more than the stuff on your iTunes then this is the tool for you - plays iTunes, XVids, avi's etc - basically everything.
A much better solution than my s-videod laptop.
Very cool - will last me ages and I still haven't gotten into the details of the gizmo - so far very impressed with set up and scannning of my shared folders - please note that this device only shares info from one computer. So far it has performed flawlessly.
[Netgear EVA8000 Digital Entertainer HD review can be read at Amazon.com] | Overall Rating: 10 | |
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| Reviewed by: | | | Review Date: | 03/28/2007 | | User Location: | | | Review From: | User Review | | | |
73% (11 of 15) Users Found This Review Helpful |
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stay away from it This product is full of defects. Definitly not ready to ship to the market.
After 4 days of operation it would not boot any more. Tech Support was not able to hard reset it.
Other defects:
If you apply the online firmware update then you cannot use 802.11G WPA encryption any more.
It consistently does not find SMB file shares.
Video playback suddenly stops during payback. They are no error messsages. It just jumps back into the main menu.
The software is wri...
[Netgear EVA8000 Digital Entertainer HD review can be read at Amazon.com] | Overall Rating: 2.0 | |
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| Reviewed by: | | | Review Date: | 04/10/2007 | | User Location: | | | Review From: | User Review | | | |
70% (7 of 10) Users Found This Review Helpful |
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EVA 8000 Review I find my new EVA 8000 to be the "missing link" between the world of home theater/media entertainment and traditional computers & networks. This is the only product out there that provides a true network interface presented in high definition (1080p). The price is reasonable and so far, the EVA 8000 works as advertised. Only two issues to discuss:
1. I've found that the EVA 8000 needs to be connected to a cat5e (100mbps) or better network to stream high definition movies - 802.11g i...
[Netgear EVA8000 Digital Entertainer HD review can be read at Amazon.com] | Overall Rating: 10 | |
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| Reviewed by: | | | Review Date: | 07/14/2007 | | User Location: | | | Review From: | User Review | | | |
60% (6 of 10) Users Found This Review Helpful |
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Reconsider before purchase EVA8000 I bought EVA8000 July 24th, 2007
Make Long story short
1 If you want to see video clip for 2006 or later version,
do not buy this since most of video clip is unavailable to play
2 When you purchase Netgear Product, never expect to get any technical
support form them. They would not answer whatever it is.
I ask 5 questions since I bought but no answer
until today Aug 13,2007.
I had always respond saying
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[Netgear EVA8000 Digital Entertainer HD review can be read at Amazon.com] | Overall Rating: 2.0 | |
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| Reviewed by: | | | Review Date: | 08/13/2007 | | User Location: | | | Review From: | User Review | | | |
45% (5 of 11) Users Found This Review Helpful |