Joined on 09/01/03
1080p/30 on the cheapi(ish)
Pros: Excellent image quality. 1080p/30 option. Decent manual options. Accurate color.
Cons: Accessory cost is pretty crazy. Narrow field of view, but the wider angle adapter fixes that.
Overall Review: Running this on Win7 X64 and Sony Vegas. I've been a big canon fan since my first real digital camera. This flash based camcorder is a great unit. I tried the Panasonic equivalent but the colors were all cartoonish and over saturated while the 1080p mode was useless with tons of blur and artifacts. Canon is great. If you want another option: look at Sony, my last HD cam was a fist gen Sony unit and it was also excellent.
Revising my review: don't buy this...
Pros: It has a lot of memory.
Cons: Slow USB 16bit color (aka "true color") dithering obvious. Poor contrast ratio: blacks are gray. Like an old LCD from five years ago. Cannot play MJPEG from modern Canon digicam. Cannot play MPEG2. Cannot play WMV, but the manual claims it can. Screen is 1024x768, but the aspect is 16:9. All content gets scaled in some manner.
Overall Review: The attraction of this device was the large memory and the large screen size. The screen is poor and the image quality is weak. Compared to a smaller Philips digital frame this one is quite inferior. Great feature set, if the features actually worked, but most of them do not.
Failed in less than 12 hours
Pros: Modular and looks good
Cons: Failed in less than 12 hours.
Overall Review: I'll maybe revise this depending on the RMA/Return experience. This was a new home server build. Once up and running let sit idle over night. Woke up to dead box. Motherboard lights functioned but other than that zero activity and could not power on or post. Plugged in spare PSU and was able to POST. Will diagnose more, but I suspect this is a failed unit.
Works. Will thottle on Core i7-8700 even in open air (NOT SURPRISING)...
Pros: Super compact. Works in NAS chassis like U-NAS 810. This is a fantastic compact cooler. Just know what you're getting it for, and set expectations.
Cons: Cannot move heat fast enough to allow prolonged turbo on the faster LGA 1151 parts.
Overall Review: I installed this in a u-nas 810 chassis. The fit and finish is top notch Noctua. But even with the top off the case this cooler will not allow full CPU perf. I suspected that would be the case, so I'm not going to dock it a star. I knew what I was getting when I bought it.
Code 28. Does not "just work"
Pros: IR dongle great form factor.
Cons: Remote itself cheap. Don't need it though. It does work with the other MC IR receivers I have. Dongle "bangs out" in device manager with code 28. Other MCE IR receivers work.
Solid. Reliable
Pros: Solid and reliable, this board has been running my home server for about a year.
Cons: None.
Overall Review: I am not using the onboard controller except for the boot disk (60GB intel SSD). I have been running this for about a year. Previously with WHS V1, now with Win8 for host OS duties and Server 2K12 in hyper-v for backups. This has been flawless to-date. As it is behind a UPS I have had 100% uptime to-date. I'm running an Areca 1230 raid controller with five 2TB disks as RAID 5 configured as four 2TB volumes that are aggregated in Win8 via Storage Spaces as a simple pool. Perf in the configuration is outstanding. This server also hosts Plex and with a I3-530 handles trans-coding fine.