Kodak 8032187 Theatre HD Player

Pros: Wireless networking. Plays most available formats. Very easy remote. Nice menus and additional features

Cons: Slow processor. Needs additional third party software to use additional media servers other than the Kodak software. No Netflix support.

Other Thoughts: Got it for a 49.99 on a shell shocker deal. Worth that as I use it to stream video's from my PC. The integrated wireless networking works well for what I am using it for and streams movies just fine. Found a site that has additional homebrew software that allows for me to use Tversity or other plug and play media servers. For the price I paid I am satisfied since very few other options exist at that price with built in wireless networking

Pros: Yes it is plug and play. Found the network (via ethernet cable), streams films and music as promised. Nice way to ease into the Home multi media and Internet access for little $$.

Cons: - Movies will time out and reset from the start when paused to long. you may want to plan those runs to the kitchen.
-USB drives show no titles one icons of each separate item. Which means if you load thirty five movies you get little icon chips to choose from. So be advised rethink if you are looking to plug this in with only portable hard drive only!!! The software on the networks helps convert the info.

Other Thoughts: Great entry level for first time home network. All of this is keeps changing so fast, I can live with this for awhile as I figure out my next set top or full media system build.

Pros: Cost, I bought this when it was $49 on sale and wanted to hook up a hard drive full of movies and send to my Mom... remote is great. Software.... uhhh, not so much

Cons: You have to set up the movies on another computer and network to it. You can hook up a drive correct but it wont show the movie name or any idea until it's opened and the interface is sloowwww

Other Thoughts: In hindsight, it wasn't bad for the money but not what I was looking for.

Pros: High quality 1080p output, tweaked linux firmware OS means happy hacking in the future. There are already some sites out there with info on the how to's. And some possibility from rumors that people were able to tweak and boot a linux distro off of a thumb drive. Will update my review if I try and it works.. XD

Did I mention, if you connect a mouse to it, it will work in place of the gyro mouse/remote?

Cons: No A/V (composite) ie.. yellow red white connection.. Only the red white (audio) composite connection output is available which could be trouble if trying to run this on a older TV without HDMI or Component inputs.

Other Thoughts: I have mine connected via HDMI to my 37" VIZIO 1080p LCD TV and I couldn't be happier with the results. This thing is almost perfect for what it is, it allows you to stream all your music, pictures, and movies from your home server. And "NO" I have had no problems streaming my movies unlike others have said (buffering issues), maybe they should try reseting their router which might help or buying a Gigabyte Wireless N router and connect their server through a CAT6 cord which if they actually have a server they should have done already. No problems what so ever here. Hope this helps if your having issues.

Pros: Low cost. Great pointer device. Access to internet music station and Youtube. Great to look at digital photo.

Cons: Not easy to have access to movies cause needs most of the time video convertion. Never turns off unless you unplug it from the wall. Wireless set-up has a bit difficult.

Other Thoughts: For the price, it's a grest unit to watch Youtube and look at your digital photo from cards or from your computer.

If you plan on using it to see your videos... I would look at some else.

Pros: Watch movies that are loaded on an external drive or jump drive. Simple and easy to use -- Good value for the price

Cons: We found that a movie could not be streamed to the unit using a wireless connection. While the movie did play, the unit had to stop and buffer often. (Other reviewers found a way to do this, but that cost more $$)

Other Thoughts: Other reviewers found a way to use a wireless signal from a PC to the unit and play the movie without pauses for buffering, but at a great expense. The simple and easy way is to just put the movie file on a jump drive or an external drive, and plug into the unit. If you can't run an HDMI or composite from your PC's video card to your TV, then this player is a good product for watching movies presently stored on your hard drive. Just move the movie files to a jump drive or external drive and plug either one into this player.

Pros: A nice interface - my mom could use this, if it worked with her mac, or played the MKV files she'd want to.. but it doesn't.. so.. she says it looks nice, but she can't use it.

It's nice looking, that's a pro right?

Cons: Abysmal software, requires Windows, can't play from a SMB/windows file share, can't play the formats my movies are in (MKV and AVCHD for home vids), etc, etc. I'm very disappointed, it was a complete waste of money.

Other Thoughts: Seriously Kodak.. Revolutionary? Really? This is in no way, shape, or form a revolutionary product. It's an older less capable version of what's currently available from other manufacturers.

Newegg sells better media players for a similar price, with WAY better features and capabilities. I'd skip this unit.

If you're hoping you can download (legally obtained, of course) videos, share them on your PC and play them from this, forget it. Unless you travel back in time to when the codecs/formats this thing supports were popular and load up a USB drive and carry it to this device, then you''re out of luck.

Pros: works good does all it says it does

Cons: none

Other Thoughts: I got it on sale and wasn't expecting much.
I was supprised at the amount of extras.

Pros: Easy set-up, nice interface although not quite as nice as iPhone or iPod touch, handles wide variety of file formats (much better than Sony in this respect), iTunes sync works well, interface works well even if you have a large number of media files. Has a version of Radiotime internet radio and YouTube and Flickr. The screensaver, which shows random images off your hard disk as a slide show, is an unexpected source of endless entertainment, and keeps your image library from just being lost on your hard disk.

Cons: Radiotime station list is limited compared to Radiotime on PC or iPod touch app. I haven't been able to get the podcasts to show up in the podcast menu, although they play as music files. The lack of downloadable apps is what keeps me from giving this a 5-egg rating. Cannot download movies from Netflix, etc., although can play movies downloaded to your PC.

Other Thoughts: I use this Player as my main connection between my home network and my home theater system. I use it to stream all my media files: photos, music, and video, including HD video. My network is 100Mb/s wired ethernet. HD video files from my Sanyo camcorder does not play smoothly even though they are mp4. After I run these files through Nero 9 and export them as mp4 they stream beautifully. I have to do this anyway to join and edit the files and add a title (i.e., make a move out of the files), so this is really not extra work. I first bought a Sony Bravia Internet Link, but found that it was very limited in the number of file formats it could handle. This Kodak product resolved this for me. I find I only use the Bravia Internet Link for Netflix downloads. I usually play music from my own collection or from internet radio while the screensaver slide show displays my photos. I also play the screensaver slide show video along with audio from FM radio and iPod with suitable set-up.

Pros: -Small
-Wireless
-Sweet Gyro Mouse
-Way cheaper than a dummy terminal (woot.com for $50)

Cons: -NO .mkv SUPPORT!
-wireless signal is not great
-software must be -running- on source PC
-seems like there'll be no firmware upgrades, IMHO

Other Thoughts: The big thing that would stop me from recommending this to someone would be lack of .mkv support. Yes, you could convert your files - but that's way more work than it's worth.

I bought this to allow my wife to watch her episodes on the TV upstairs, without having to put an entire computer up there. In that respect it saved me ALOT of money (I get carried away making PC's). Now I have to be careful to only backup my shows and movies to .avi. Not perfect but it works.

BTW - The gyro mouse is PERFECT for using in bed!