Neuros 442 extinct?

[BrianDubya]

I had my eye on a 442 for months, but since it seemed to be in a transitive state, held off. I did buy a Recorder 2 and really like it (though the inability to play anything but m4p's seems to suck) I have no avi's or asf's and not sure what they are for. Everything I have is either m4p/m4v, wmv, mpg and unless it is something I got from iTunes or recorded myself, I cannot use the R2 to play.

I guess I should have jumped and bought, though everything I read indicated they (Neuros) were improving the 442, not burying it.

[rastyk]

Well.   I used GB-PVR and a hauppauge PVR-350 to capture stuff to mpeg2 and convert it to divx.   Plus a plextor TV-402U.   Time+place shift your TV.  But it comes with a cost -- I use another computer, and have installed, reinstalled drivers, and replaced a few hardware components over the last 8-9 months of use.  But overall, the reason why we like it this way is that you're limited by hard drive space, you're not throwing money to the hopes that a clumsy DRM scheme won't stop you from watching what you bought.  BlueRay and HDTV is annoying me, not because it has clearer content, but because it's just a scheme to lock us in to some other stupid DRM scheme.

I jumped on the woot offer over a year ago and loved the 442, but fully expected some of the annoyances to be fixed.  Neuros is alleviating some of that by keying us in on some of the newer things they're working on - -the OSD is the "wild west" apparently on the message boards.   This has some potential and after that I think we'll get the 442v2 (hopefully with some added experience from the OSD project)