This player is pretty cool I will say because not only it can read blu-ray disk (BD Live compliant) and digital files (DivX/XVid/WMV9/H.264/MKV…) but also it integrates a bit-torrent client !!! It exists 2 kinds of players (BD Prime and HD Center), all of which have various mix-and-match functions. The HD Center includes a built-in hard drive bay (plus hard disk) so we can download bit-torrent files. Each player has 4 different models (standard, Wi-Fi 802.11n, Ethernet 1000 Mb/s and 2xeSATA) and will support a proprietary implementation of full VoD and HV system called "Dune HD", planned to be launched in future. This system is based on

SecureMedia solution, certified by all the Hollywood majors.

Following some common specifications:

Playback

• Blu-Ray discs (Profile 1.1/2.0)
• DVD-Video discs
• Files on Blu-Ray (BD-R, BD-RE), DVD (DVD-ROM, DVD+-R, DVD+-RW), CD (CD-ROM, CD-R, CD-RW) discs
• Files on USB drives (USB HDD, USB flash, USB card readers etc)
• Files in local network from PC or NAS (NFS and SMB)
• IPTV (free channels UDP/RTP MPEG-TS, H.264/MPEG-2)
• Internet radio (HTTP/MP3)
• File formats: MKV, MPEG-TS, MPEG-PS, M2TS, VOB, AVI, MOV, MP4, QT, ASF, WMV, DVD-ISO, VIDEO_TS.
• Video codecs: MPEG2, MPEG4, DivX, XVID, WMV9, VC1, H.264.
• Audio codecs: AC3 (DD), EAC3 (DD+), DTS, MPEG 1/2/3, AAC, LPCM, WMA, WMAPro, Dolby True HD, DTS HD HRA, DTS HD MA (HD-formats for Blu-Ray playback only).
• Subtitle formats: Plain text, SSA/AAS, SRT, VOB.

Network

• Browsing, copying and direct playback of files from PC and NAS in local network (NFS and SMB protocols).
• Attached storage from local network.
• Playback of Internet radio (HTTP/MP3).
• Playback of IPTV (free channels UDP/RTP MPEG-TS, H.264/MPEG-2).
• NAS function: FTP and SMB servers for accessing player's H.264/MPEG-2).
• Bit-Torrent client for digital content download from Internet.
• Web browser (based on the same engine as used in Mozilla Firefox) for browsing arbitrary Internet sites (with limited possibilities and performance).

Hardware (the most modern design of Dune includes - Sigma Designs 8634 SoC)

• 512 MB of RAM (HD Center) or 384 MB of RAM (BD Prime), 64 MB flash and 1GB of NAND flash memory for fastest Java support on the latest and future Blu-Ray disks (Profile 2.0).
• HDMI 1.3 for ultimate HD video and HD audio performance.
• Optical, coaxial digital and 7.1 analogue audio output.
• Composite, component, S-Video video output.
• Three USB 2.0 ports for connecting external AV sources.
• Ethernet 100 Mb/s and Wi-Fi up to 300 Mb/s (optional).
• Mobile rack with SATA Direct Link for fast and easy HDD exchange to support any audio and video collection on any number of hard discs w/o need to create expensive multi-disc NAS solutions. Any 3.5? SATA HDDs can be used (only HD Center).

DVD-Video playback support

• Commercial DVD-Video disks (internal DVD drive, USB DVD drives).
• ISO images, VIDEO_TS folders (internal DVD drive, USB mass storage devices as USB HDD, USB flash memory, USB DVD drives, NFS network folders, SMB network folders, internal HDD - only HD Center).

January 19, 2009

 

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