I want more content

Every time I watch video content on my computer it reminds me of how I wish my Vunow had more content. Today I was watching the NCAA tournament and kept thinking how nice it would have been to have these on my TV through my "Internet Video Box." I also keep getting upset that Verismo will not put out publicly any intent on what they intend to do with this box. I have had it for 2 months now and the content really hasn't gone anywhere. One big addition of Crackle.com. I at least want to know they are looking to do hulu and tv.com and whatever else they are working on. And as I have read in a few places I would like to know what the hold up is. Is it a technically issue? Is it a political issue? Are you even looking into it? I want to know what to expect. I would love to have whatever game I want on my TV from the NCAA tournament.

Vunow Upgrade

Two days ago my Vunow Box updated itself. It took probably ten minutes. During these ten minutes I had high hopes. That something would be updated. I would finally get my hulu.com access. After it was all done I could see no changes. Hugely disappointing. This is the second update my box has received that I have noticed and both times after it was done I saw no differences. I would very much like it is Verismo Networks would put out what the updates are for the each upgrade somewhere on their website. I would very much like to know what is being made better and what else I could possibly be able to do with my box.
I did not notice, but a fellow Vunow owner in the AVS Forum site, noted that on the popular websites some of the web sites now have a date of March 10th for availability. Possibly this is just a setup for a big upgrade in features on March 10th. We shall see.

Vunow External Hard Drive

After using the vunow back and trying a few different things the only really good way to play your videos was to put them on a portable drive and walk them back to the Vunow Box. After running out of space on my USB flash drive I decided to buy an external hard drive. I bought a 1 TB usb hard drive from a discount place near were I work. It has been the best thing by far I have done for my Vunow. All the features work flawlessly when you play off of the hard drive. The pause, fast forward, rewind, and no skipping. I would highly recommend the use of an external hard drive with this box. The one feature I wish the Vunow had the most is a way that when the external hard drive is hooked up to the Vunow that you would be able to show the drive as a shared drive on the network. I would like to be able to leave the drive hooked up to the box right by the TV and be able to dump and access everything on the external hard drive. Now I have to physically move the drive to my computer and copy the files over and bring it back to the TV. It is quite a pain. I keep looking for a good option to be able to access the drive from the TV, but nothing really fits the bill. The best so far is an adapter that makes and usb drive a Network Attached Storage (NAS) device, but I would have to still plug the hard drive back and forth into the adapter and Vunow. Verismo if you are reading that please add that the external hard drive can be linked into the network for easy access for adding video files to be played on the Vunow.

Vunow Blog First Post

I bought a Vunow by Verismo Networks about a month ago and have found that it is difficult to find information on what can and can't be done with it, so I figured I would start a blog to explain the things I have learned through trial and error. Hopefully I will also be able to attract some other users of the product to share some of their experiences with that rest of us as well. With the digital transition just around the corner a month ago (it has been moved back now) I wanted to find a source of video for the TV I have in the bedroom. I live in a condo and have for the last five years lived with only over the air television. Around five years ago I bought a digital video recorder with an internal hard drive and a TV guide interface from Best buy. I learned that if I recorded what I wanted over the air that there was enough free content to keep me content. My problem in this condo is that there is only one antenna outlet in the house and it is in the living room and with a cable converted box I get literally one station in the bedroom with the rabbit ears. I just wanted video content in my back room in some way, so I began to investigate the options for internet video in set top boxes. After some investigation it turns out that there are many options for set top boxes that stream media saved on another computer over a network. I don't have much video content, so I was looking for something that displayed internet video. I found some boxes that were set to display You Tube and other select video sites, but they all seemed very limited. The real reason I picked this box was because it had streaming TV channels and that sounded perfect for my bedroom. When I got the box it had about 8 channels under the North America section of the live TV. This was disappointing. Now there are around 20 to 30 channels under the same section, so the box i definitely expanding. The more I have used the box the more happy I have been with it. I will continue to post my experiments and results here as the days go by.