Netgear NeoTV 550

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33% of the reviews on Amazon.co.uk give this product a positive rating.

Supports several file formats. Can catalog videos from different devices.

Expensive. No Wi-Fi. No Netflix, Hulu, or other common online streaming services.

If you have a lot of media stores in your home network's devices, the Netgear NeoTV NTV550 can bring those files to your HDTV, but a too-high price, and a lack of features spoil the deal.

Easy to set up and use ; Huge file support ; Great remote ; Cover art is useful ; Good value for money

Lack of internet apps ; Looks bland ; No built-in Wi-Fi ; No HDMI cable

Despite the ongoing march of Blu-ray into homes across the country, there's been no let-up in the number of media devices that enable you to get all the media you've collated on your PC – whether movies, music files or photos – and access them on your...

Hugely flexible, loads of connections, extensive format support

No streaming services to speak of, quite hard to live with

Decent enough if you know what you’re doing, but no easy ride

We were thoroughly impressed by the Netgear NeoTV 550. It's a solid player that handles media very well. The very elegantly designed interface is also a thing to look at. Netgear has priced the NeoTV 550 at Rs.14,649, which is a lot of money.

Apart from a fairly fiddly internet content browser, there’s not much wrong with the NeoTV 550. It’s not special enough to justify its premium price, though.

Good connectivity and file format support

Expensive considering there’s no built-in storage

The NeoTV is also pretty expensive for a device that doesn’t have a built-in hard disk – in fact, it even makes the Apple TV look cheap.

plays any media i throw at it. plays bluray iso flawlessly, which is why i bought it. remote is well layed out

no port multiplier on the eSATA port. it hangs every now and then, resetting takes less then a min, so no biggie

Very fast boot up time, quick network discovery of file servers, just 2 clicks to get to my movies, plays every media format in my library (MKV, WMV, AVI, blu-ray, VIDEO_TS, ..., ISO), language / subtitle selection, fast scrolling through media list,...

YouTube app does not seem to list all public folders