Forum:What about "Iomega ScreenPlay Director HD"?

Recently I discovered Iomega having a product similar to SPP. It is called "Iomega ScreenPlay Director HD Media Player", see and is shipped in a 1TB and 2TB versions. The features are quite similar to SPP, but not the same: e.g., SP Director supports H.264, playing YouTube directly, has a cooler remote, etc. Also, I think SP Director is a PLAYER not a Recorder. The funny thing is the price for the 1TB version is the same for both SPP and SP Director.

My question is: are the internals of this model the same as in SPP? Will the tricks from this Wiki also work on the Director?

Thank you in advance, 84.28.185.25 06:44, October 28, 2009 (UTC)RS
 * Well I show the Director yesterday. It seems to me to be the SPP with the next generation of the cpu capable reproducing H.264 and a sexier remote control. However, going back to the chat about the DLNA, I think these "devices" are becoming obsolete as a concept since most, if not all new TVs, are DLNA enabled. So for the majority of every day users it is more than enough to fire up their PC and enable the DLNA software that is shipped along with their TV and "voila".... They can watch all their downloads. If they need more space, they just need a simple external HD. As for the more "advanced" user, we can all commit a small linux box somewhere with DLNA or try to "convert" the old SPP to a DLNA ;) I know that I am all too excited the last few days about his DLNA story but the technology cries out that this is the way forward. --Sxwiz 10:44, October 28, 2009 (UTC)


 * I don't have the director, or access to it. But from my studies of it, I believe the internals are different than the SPP. There are many tricks here that, in concept, will probably still work. But actual implementation may be different. --JCoug 05:29, November 4, 2009 (UTC)
 * I have both the Iomega ScreenPlay HD and the ScreenPlay Director.
 * These are the differences I've noticed.
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 * {| border="1" cellpadding="1" cellspacing="1" style="width: 500px;"

! scope="row"| ! scope="col"|ScreenPlay HD ! scope="col"|ScreenPlay Director ! scope="row"|Composite Video Recording ! scope="row"|Telnet access ! scope="row"|U-tube playing ! scope="row"|Shoutcast ! scope="row"|RSS (audio and video podcasting, blogs) ! scope="row"|Partitions visible (from Linux) when mounted on USB interface ! scope="row"|General Public License (GPL) Compliance GPL software published on Iomega website. ! scope="row"|SMB Network Filesharing The GPL software publishing suggests that an open-source ecosystem could be developed for the ScreenPlay Director, so that its shortcomings could be fixed, advanced capabilitiies added and the cluelessness of the iomega support forum can be worked around. A good example of what can be done is the OpenWRT.org firmware for the Linksys WRT54G router which can be configured wth dozens of add-on packages.
 * Yes but flaky. Will record some copy-protected VHS tapes.
 * None
 * Yes, used for customization.
 * None
 * None
 * Advertized but broken
 * None
 * Advertized but broken
 * None
 * Works OK (some sites don't work). Must use klunky www.iomega/onlinemedia website. Catalog favorites can be added but not deleted.
 * Hidden Linux partitions allow customization. (See other pages in this wikia)
 * Hidden Linux partitions may allow customization.
 * See other pages in this wikia.
 * Limited to 2GB out of the box. Upgrades available.
 * Multiple mounts and large files seem to work. Multi-file transfers often fail with "NT can not allocate memory" error message. Problems with case sensitive filenames.
 * }
 * 76.91.230.130 19:42, December 29, 2010 (UTC)GregLawson


 * Dont bother.
 * http://iomegascreenplayprohdiscrap.blogspot.com/
 * 87.194.26.78 18:23, November 13, 2011 (UTC)