All those features, yet media player companies still have yet to include the ONE feature that would make any of them actually usable: the ability to play arbitr

All those features, yet media player companies still have yet to include the ONE feature that would make any of them actually usable: the ability to play arbitrary mkv and avi files from the network with a wide variety of codecs. Western Digital made a good effort some years back, but the UI was terrible. Nobody else seems to care about this one obvious killer feature. As consumers, we are still stuck building custom low noise boxes running xbmc.