Cheers to that.
My experiences are largely the same.
The buggy picture-viewer is the main disadvantage. Before Arizona it would accept all pictures (I use a 5 Mp Konica-Minolta and an 8 Mp Canon). When I bought my OSD it would not display some pictures, it then started displaying all pictures (after upgrades). With the arrival of Arizone it has stopped displaying most pictures of the Konica-Minolta with a message "image is too big" while it will merrily display most pictures taken with the Cannon. I just hope attention will not be diverted to the OSD2 and a couple of upgrades down the line I can watch all my original pictures again.
I would be reluctant to let the kids use the OSD because it will allow them to delete complete directory trees too easily. You cannot make things read-only. I would prefer it if the OSD respected read-only settings for fles and directories in a windows fashion.
I use the OSd for playing music a lot. I use mp3tag if I do not have tagged MP3's.
http://mp3tag.de/download.html.
I use the OSD mainly for transferring home-videos. I have found that we watch old family favourite-clips a lot more often nowadays. Since the kids re-watch DVD's so often I have also ripped kids-movies & cartoons so we can play them from the NAS again and again. Less scratches on the originals and less running betwen our 2 rooms with TV (I have 2 OSD's one in the living-room and one in the kitchen).
I use the subtitling possibility a lot, as well. I like foreign movies and you can easily add subtitles to movies that I transferred from VHS (I found it easiest to cut off bits of a film tomake it fit the subtitles, rather than messing about with the subtitles).
I have replaced all our remote controls in both rooms with cheap programmable remote controls (from Lidl: URC=L-639 bought for GBP 5.99). I would prefer if I could add the Neuros codes to this one, but it does not work, I do not knwo why. So, I need 2 RC's in each room now. And if one of the Neuros OSD's remotes shoudl break I would need an expensive replacement :-(. If anyone knows of a cheap universal RC that can work with the Neuros OSD I would like to hear of it.
Youtube is a kids favourite. If videos get stuck you can simply copuy them onto the NAS from a PC using firfox with "Downloadhelper" or "Fast Video Download" plugins. It would be better if the OSD had better control (FF etc, ) for FLV's but it does work.
With two OSD's I have found it is easiest to assign them fixed IP-addresses and use VNC to let the one record while you watch in another room. It is easy and works lik a charm.
Like any technical tool the OSD has sttrenghts and weaknesses, but IO have found it quite ideal for our needs. Thanks for thast & Kudos to the makers o the hardware and software.
