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Expensive brick

by Rich on Nov 20th, 2007 at 4:59 PM:

I bought this unit for $450 and REALLY wanted the networking part of it to work. Unfortunately it constantly froze and lost the network signal. I never even made it thru a single movie. The firmware upgrades are a joke as they create more problems. I think for the expensive price, it should have had all the bugs worked out. I sent it back and bought the Buffalo Link Theater with DVD for $100 buck. Turns out, it works flawlessly, and has the same picture and sound quality as the other Helios. AND, they run the same software with different skins!!

Conclusion: Helios is an overpriced hunk of nothing.