Beyonwiz DP-S1 Dual HD Tuner PVR / DVD Player / Media Streamer Launches in Australia
By Alexander Grundner |
May 14th, 2007
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Okay, it’s official. Australia now has a gadget that the rest of the world is envious of. The Beyonwiz DP-S1 is an amazing do-it-all unit that offers a 200GB dual HD tuner PVR (compatible with IceTV’s programming guide of Australia), an upconverting DVD player, and support for media streaming over a home network, from an external USB drive, or flash-based memory card. The company also plans to make the DP-S1 compatible with Microsoft DRM-wrapped content from premium online partners. The DP-S1 will retail for $1,599 (via iTWire).
Features:
- Dual recording and time-shifting
- Dual HD MPEG2 recording up to 1080i
- W-LAN with 2 antennas (802.11g)
- Movie : wmv, avi, mpg, vob, mp4, asf, tp, trp, ISO
- Music : MP3, WMA, AAC, Ogg, PCM, AC3, Play list
- Photo : BMP, JPEG, PNG
- Touch pad buttons on the front panel
- FF (x2, x4, x8, x16, x32), REW (x8, x16, x32)
- Pause, Slow Forward, Step Forward
- Skip (15 sec, 30 sec, 1 min, 2 min, and so on)
- Bookmark, Favorite Folder, Repeat (One, All, A-B)
- Photo slide show
- Direct playback of contents in USB storage or memory cards (with Built-in Card Reader)
- Direct playback of contents in PC through home network
- Share contents between PC and DP-S1 through home network
- Back-up contents in DP-S1 to PC
- DVD, Movie CD (DivX file), Music CD, Photo CD
- 2000 Service programmable
- Service list editing
- Favorite service list editing
- EPG for on screen Service Information
- Parental lock facility by service and program event
- Multilingual audio supported
- Teletext-subtitle and DVB-subtitle supported
- Teletext supported by software emulation
- Graphic based user interface
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Alexander Grundner is the Editor & Publisher of eHomeUpgrade. He has been following "Digital Home" developments since 2003. You can catch his daily tech musings on Twitter: @agrundner.