moose;389082 wroteI've had mine since 2008 and it held up well until about the last 6 months I started running into some files that it wouldn't play the sound on. Up until then it played 98% of the stuff I threw at it. That's pretty decent. Your problem is you bought 5 year old technology.
Ha! True enough, but I was following your suggestion after my PS3 died. Just kidding. The thing still does what I wanted it to do when I got it which is stream A/V from the hard drive on my PC to my AVR so I've got no complaints in that regard. The only complaint I do have about the thing is that every now and again it reverts to not recognizing my network shares which appears to be a common problem as I've seen it mentioned many times. Mine has never balked whatsoever at any file type I've thrown at it with either audio or video.
You are 100% correct though in the sense that asking 5yr old tech to be compatible with today's tech is asking far too much. Can't ask it to complete a task it was never designed for. I guess at the time I got it, the tech was new to me just not the rest of the world.
Looking forward to hearing your review of the Gbox you've got coming. I keep seeing an ASUS product (chromecast/box?) being mentioned in various places. Did that come into consideration when you were looking into this? What made you go with the Matricom product?