I’ve only used it for SD video, so I can’t say how well it’s HD playback is, but I have no reason to think it wouldn’t be great. With a little work you can manage to get it on a WiFi network, and it has a built in FTP server that you can use to load files onto it from.

One problem with the FTP server, it’s not really very stable - and I was pulling my hair out trying to find an FTP client that will connect to it. Filezilla will not at all, and several other are quite flaky. Smart FTP did a nice job, but it seems to cause the FTP server to “hang” when it disconnects, requiring a restart of the server.

What actually ended up being the best was just using the FTP client built into IE6, which I had not used in years but tried after I saw someone at the office use it a week ago.

I didn’t try any Mac clients cause my media server is a Windows box, and I’ve heard command line clients work really well.

You can also have it stream across the network, but my WiFi wasn’t fast enough to keep up with it and the video was unmatchable. I’m sure a wired network would be fine but I would rather store my media on the 500GB drive I have in the player anyhow.

The interface is nice enough, not “Apple nice”, but I have no complaints. The remote is well designed, easy to work in the dark, and has a high quality feel to to. The whole package easily passed the wife test.

If you are still in the market for a video jukebox type device, I recommend it but make a note that setting up the network side might take a little time. You can always plug it into a USB jack and copy files over - which was pain free, but not ideal for me going forward.

If you have any questions - fire them my way.

There are some great devices in that last at really great prices. No I’ve got to do some digging and see which is the best for my needs. I do like the looks of the TVIX Box M-5100SH.