Geek Girl TV #59: Mvix L33tors

Eve Park enlists your help to find a super hero name for a new member of the l33tors. She reviews the Mvix Media Center.
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Video Transcript: Hello and welcome back to Geek Girl TV. As usual, I'm your geek girl host Steve Park and my theme song was created by The Days which you can check out at MySpace.com/TheDaysGirls. This is episode number 59 and speaking of the number 59, Mission STS 59 was executed on the space shuttle Endeavor, launched on April 9th, 1994. Its primary mission was to launch the space radar laboratory SRL1, which included an atmospheric instrument called "measurement of air pollution from satellites" or MAPS, which measured global distribution of carbon monoxide in the troposphere. This episode, I'd like to introduce a new member to the L33tors. Do you remember the L33tors? It's my grass-roots, superhero movement. To be a L33tor, you must be l33t-er than the general populace, and you must be a L33der, using your l33t-ness to set a good example for the n00bs. I'd like to introduce a new member to the L33tors, but I can't. To be a L33tor, you must send your application to GeekGirl@CleverMedia.com. It must include your superhero name and your superpower. I received and excellent submission from a woman who knows her superpower and even sent a picture, which I think is really cool, but needs your help coming up with a good superhero name. She's known all along that she had this super-ability to project color and used it to amused herself as a kid recoloring everything around her just by pointing at it, but now she knows that sending color vibrations can change peoples' hearts, and if they're really evil and her color powers can't change them, she can make them disappear. Poof! So, can you help out? Please send your ideas for a good superhero name for this new L33tor to GeekGirk@CleverMedia.com. While you're at it, why not become a L33tor yourself. Simply answer the question: If you were a superhero, what would your name and superpower be? Now, one of the things that is so neat about this player is that it plays a whole host of different file formats. The other great thing about this player is that you insert your own standard-sized hard drive. I really like this because who doesn't have an extra hard drive lying around somewhere? And, if that is not enough, you can get a really big internal hard drive for pretty cheap these days. Let's back up a moment. What do you use this thing for? Well, personally, I'd like to start moving away from disc media and begin to store all my media digitally. This device hooks up to your television and to your computer network, to play the sort of files that you have on your computer on your television. Now, I've been using this thing and I like it all right, but in theory it's got a lot of ways to transfer files to the device. You can use the remote, once it's hooked up to your wireless network, to serve files on the other computers in your network. You can also install NDAS on any of your computers and remotely move files from that computer to the Mvix player. NDAS would be handy, but be prepared. It takes them about two weeks to send you your NDAS key. And, though they have NDAS for Mac, the Mvix doesn't really support use with the Mac and I couldn't get it to work. And when I tried to access files on my network from the Mvix player, it didn't see the Macs at all. And the Mvix interface didn't provide the options I needed to get through the security I have set up on my PCs. You saw that there was a lot of inputs on the back of this thing. So, in practice, I haven't had any trouble hooking up a computer directly to the Mvix player, even a Mac, or putting the movie I want to see on a USB stick and inserting that into the back of the device. In conclusion, I recommend the Mvix player, which you can get from Think Geek, by the way, with some reservations. It's a solution for a true geek. If you're not afraid to wrestle with your network, you'll probably enjoy the flexibility that the Mvix player offers over other media players. And that's all I have this week. Remember to send your questions, comments, and feedback to GeekGirl (at) CleverMedia.com. Until next week, excelsior.
Geek Girl TV #59: Mvix L33tors

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