Netgear EVA8000 Digital Entertainer HD User reviews

By Jeremy Roche and Craig Simms on 08/01/2008

More NETGEAR reviews , RRP: AU$599.00

The good:

  • Extensive file format support
  • YouTube and Flickr browsing
  • Plays purchased (DRM) music
  • Supports streaming HD from PC to TV

The bad:

  • Fiddly set-up process
  • Slow start-up and laggy interface
  • No 802.11n support

The bottomline:

On paper, Netgear's EVA8000 appears to be a media hoarder's dream, but although support is extensive it simply feels unfinished.

Buying choices:

Editors' rating:

6.5/10

Users' rating:

6.7/10

Tags:

eva8000 | netgear | video | stream | music | photo

wireless internet
14/05/2008, 10:49 PM

rating
8/10

Modern day music, and latter day music for that matter, has two sides. Junk and not junk. Junk sells, and is what you hear when you tune your radio to any popular radio station. If there's anything meaningful behind it, it was engineered that way.

Pros: Listen good music and quality music

Cons: some listen bad muic

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mmocatta
10/03/2008, 09:02 PM

rating
8/10

For those who have a ton of Music and Video Divx this is the easy way of having access to all you media

Pros: easy nav and streams really well

Cons: be good if it read the itunes xml play lists to save conversion

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aklawrence
20/02/2008, 05:29 AM

rating
4/10

Setup wasn't that bad if you use the enclosed CD. The bad part was that after doing the initial install there is a fairly significant update that you can install. After the update you have to do the entire setup process again.
Fairly slow when rendering 2MB photos. Audio streaming was good. Streaming 2 different video files in .avi and .wmv formats crashed the system. I've had it for 2 days and if it keeps crashing it will be returned.

Pros: Small footprint. Streaming photos, audio, and video

Cons: Only 802.11g support, redundant setups after updating firmware, crashed playing 2 different videos. Expensive. Could buy another xbox 360 for same or less.

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