Hands-on with Altech's Node

There seems to be some confusion regarding the HDD.

From this article on Gearburn:

Node has a lot of content right out of the box (over 700 hours of pre-loaded film and TV series stored on its 1TB drive)
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It also plays most video files, so those with enormous, series-filled drives (up to 3TB) can use Node as a content streamer.
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So either the press release the copied has a typo or they don't check the articles... So each site shows one of the values depending on which part they copy?
 
furpile said:
There seems to be some confusion regarding the HDD.

From this article on Gearburn:


and


So either the press release the copied has a typo or they don't check the articles... So each site shows one of the values depending on which part they copy?
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The unit comes with a 1tb drive. It can play external hard drives connected via usb up to 3tb as a media player.
 
fanie.dry said:
So if I download the Supersport app, can I stream via this thing?
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Theoretically yes.
The box runs full android, so it should be able to access that app. It won't however use glorious satellite technology to stream, it would stream though your existing internet connection.
 
Freshy-ZN said:
Ok I understand HOW but do I not miss content that is replaced?
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If you want to watch it again you just add it to your list again and it will be sent to your box, and the next oldest thing will be replaced again. But with 1TB of data that's quite a lot of movies and series. So you will always have 1TB of the latest stuff you added to your list.
 
Ok so there will always be a kind of "Master List" of content which you can send back to your Node if it has been replaced?
 
You will always have access to their content library. The HDD is just an intermediary step for them to deal with satellite capacity. So they send what you want to watch to your HDD when they have capacity and you watch whenever you want. Instead of streaming "on demand" over their satellite connection.
 
furpile said:
If you want to watch it again you just add it to your list again and it will be sent to your box, and the next oldest thing will be replaced again. But with 1TB of data that's quite a lot of movies and series. So you will always have 1TB of the latest stuff you added to your list.
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No, that's not how it works.

Everybody's getting the same content as part of the monthly batch. If it's available on tvod, you can buy some of the missed content for R15. What's important to understand is, with push vod your node box does not download the content, pushed means it plays like a regular tv broadcast in the background and gets recorded. After it is recorded it's presented to you in a simulated vod way. This usually happens at night and that's why it takes a while to have content.

Your 1tb hdd is not only for tv content, it has 4 partitions. Actually you will only have 10% new content every month. That is roughly 28 eps of tv shows and 14 movies.
 
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