Unboxing the Nixeus Fusion HD

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The parade of network-connected media streaming and playback devices continues. And we’re gotten our hands on yet another recent entrant, the Nixeus Fusion HD (~$220).

The Fusion HD probably has more in common with the WD TV Live solutions, rather than the Roku, given it’s 1080p local media playback capabilities – via both LAN (DLNA, UPnP) or directly connected storage. Speaking of which, the reason the Fusion HD is about triple the size of the Roku (pic below) is because it can optionally house a 3.5″ SATA drive (to no doubt support the BitTorrent client). Of course, web services are a requisite these days and the Fusion HD delivers multiple, including YouTube and Flickr. Additionally, they’ve even integrated a browser. However, despite the nice remote for this class of device, I’m finding text entry a bit tedious.

We’ve got something of a backlog of review hardware in our posession, including the Popbox — so it could be a few weeks or more before we get a comprehensive Fusion HD post up. Stay tuned.

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6 thoughts on “Unboxing the Nixeus Fusion HD”

  1. PS There are not really clouds silk screened onto the Fusion HD hardware. For a change of pace, I shot the unboxing pics on the top level of a parking garage – what you’re seeing is the reflection of the sky. :)

  2. No clouds… Me no buy.

    Waiting to read review of this and Popbox. I’m contemplating retiring my Popcorn A100.

  3. Man with all of the toys Dave has, I wonder how his wife likes having all of the remote controls running around…. More info on the Vulkano box, please…..

    Thanks for the info….

  5. A browser? Like with Flash and such? Access to Hulu and stuff like that? If that actually works, this would be an interesting device.

  6. Apparently the reports are that Nixeus will add Flash/SWF support to their Fusion HD player in Q4 of this year (firmware upgradable).

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