Networked Blu-ray player Dune BD Prime
Networked media players such as Popcorn Hour became very popular. But they still cannot replace DVD or Blu-ray player because they cannot play real disks. However Dune BD Prime can fill in that gap. It plays Blu-Ray (Profile 1.1/2.0) and DVD disks as well as media files from USB stick, shared resources in LAN (NFS and SMB), IPTV (free channels UDP/RTP MPEG-TS, H.264/MPEG-2) and Internet radio (HTTP/MP3). The player supports a bunch of A/V file formats and codecs. Additionally Dune BD Prime provides NAS functionality for attached external HDD via USB or eSATA, BitTorrent client and web browser to surf Internet (with limited possibilities and performance).
The Dune BD Prime is equiped by HDMI 1.3, Composite, component, S-Video video outputs, Optical and coaxial digital and 7.1 analogue audio outputs. To connect external storage three USB ports can be used. 100 MB/s Ethernet adapter can be upgrade to gigabyte one. Additionally WiFi 802.11n adaptor and two eSATA ports.
User interface of the Dune BD Prime is simple but functional. It’s no needed to have some special knowledge to configure and use the device. All operations are done using remote control.
The Dune BD Prime is not so cheap as ordinary media tanks or Blu-ray players. It costs €449.00. But it looks like a good value for money. At least theoretically 
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2 comments:
Thanks to share your practical opinion, Charles. Maybe the Dune BD Prime is not fully ready for production but as concept it seems excellent.
While the HDI’S DUNE BD Prime does both quite well as far as playback is concerned, there are quite many little things underneath the basic functionality of the player to consider it “not ready” for normal users expecting a “finished” product. However, it’s quite useful for a gadget-junky like me. Thanks for the wonderful post. Very insightful and quite informative!