VULKANO PLAYER FOR ANDROID TV
The Vulkano also has an Internet apps feature that lets you watch YouTube videos on your TV (you can’t log in to your YouTube account to access favorites, however). Using the guide, you can set up and view recordings as well as live TV. Here you can set up your account information, including creating a name for your Vulkano and telling it the source of your cable/satellite feed so that the Vulkano can download guide info. Once you’ve made the connections, the Vulkano’s main interface will appear when you tune your TV to its input. During setup, you must make sure that your router supports the Vulkano’s remote access features this is supposed to happen automatically with any UPnP-enabled router, but I had to go into my router’s settings and manually forward a couple of ports to the Vulkano’s IP address.Īn infrared blaster lets you transmit commands to your cable box by positioning it near the box’s IR receiver. The Vulkano connects to your network via its gigabit ethernet port or its built-in 2.4GHz 802.11n Wi-Fi adapter. On the other hand, if you’re accessing live TV remotely, network issues related to streaming media are far more likely to degrade video quality than is the use of analog cables to move content to the Vulkano. What this means is that the qualiity of video and audio recorded in high definition won’t be as good as it would be over a digital connection-and you’ll notice the difference if you’ve been using an HDMI connection to your cable box and switch to the Vulkano’s analog connection. (The Vulkano also supports composite and S-video connections, but they are inferior in quality to component video.) Similarly, you cannot record 5.1-channel or better audio the Vulkano has only stereo inputs. The best you can do to record high-def (720p or 1080i) content off a cable or satellite box is to connect with the included analog component cables.
But because of copy protection technology for digital content, the Vulkano doesn’t accept digital inputs.
You connect the Vulkano to an HDTV via an included HDMI cable (Monsoon also supplies component video cables-kudos to the company for doing so).
VULKANO PLAYER FOR ANDROID PRO
The Vulkano Platinum ($150) has no built-in storage and therefore doesn’t support DVR features the Vulkano Deluxe ($280), which I tested, comes with a 16GB SD Card that slides into a slot on the box and the Vulkano Deluxe Pro ($380) comes with a 1TB eSATA hard drive. Monsoon offers three versions of the Vulkano.
VULKANO PLAYER FOR ANDROID PC
Whereas most set-top boxes we’ve seen (for instance, the early Slingbox Solo, the Roku players, and the Boxee Box ) are squarish or boxily rectangular, the Vulkano is a thin slab about the size of a PC keyboard. But it doesn’t always fulfill that promise to perfection. The result is a box that promises to let you watch live high-definition TV and recorded shows on any screen (including your smartphone’s screen) wherever you are. Now, with its Vulkano Deluxe line, Monsoon adds time-shifting features (in other words, a DVR) to the mix. Monsoon Multimedia has been making place-shifting set-top boxes-devices that essentially let you watch your own TV remotely-for several years.
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