(For other G5/PCI card (SCSI, Audio, etc.) compatibility info/reports - see the PCI Compat. section of the PowerMac G5 Tech Docs/Compat. Info page.
For pre-G5 system reports on FW/USB card deep sleep - see this page)

" I've just purchased a Neuston MC-500 and seeing as you don't mention it much I thought I'd give my comments on it - which might be of some help to your readers.
(There's a page of EyeHome owner reports here, although I did mention the Virtuoso MC-500 Digital Media Player in the April 27th news page, like the Roku HD1000 player (mentioned in the May 3rd news) it's just not as popular/well known with Mac users as the EyeHome I guess.)

I bought the Neuston instead of the EyeHome because (in the UK at least) it has several advantages - namely the number of outputs the box provides, and especially component output which the EyeHome doesn't (in the UK). Elgato refused to sell me a US model so Neuston it was.
The software provided is for PC only but Mac software is available to download from their website. There is also a useful forum with quite a few Mac postings.

The Neuston software is Java based and somewhat simple. Load up and leave it running. There a virtually no configuration options, and those I did need had to be done by editing an .xml file within the package.

The device itself discovered my Mac over my main-over-IP network without any configuration what-so-ever. Streaming of MPEG2/MPEG/Divx and Xvid all seems to work fine. Your local Movies folder is read automatically, and it supports symbolic links to anywhere else you choose.

Music support is in the form of automatic reading of your iTunes library. All my play lists were available for browsing. (I asked if it supported ITMS protected AAC files, which the Eyehome doesn't now with the later updates for it)
It doesn't currently play protected ACC files. I've emailed support to ask on an update on this. (I think it's a licensing issue based on comments from ElGato on the same lack of support w/EyeHome)

Photo support initially didn't work as it couldn't find my iPhoto directory - perhaps a problem with my running iPhoto 4.0.3? Anyway, manually editing the configuration xml file on the Mac and getting it to point to my iPhoto directory got it working. I've still not got the slideshow option working yet though.

Internet support gives you the ability to browse some news sites, tune in to internet radio and browse all your bookmarked sites. This seems to work OK although I'd probably only use the internet radio facility to be honest. I've not found a way of adding your own addresses yet.

That's about it. The company seems to be taking Mac support seriously and I urge readers to take a look at the MC-500 instead of the Eyehome. Unless you have an EyeTV I believe it does everything that EyeHome does, but also offers better connectivity and more codec support. It is also cheaper (in the UK).

I hope this information is of some help to your readers. If anyone had any specific questions I'll be happy to try and answer them.
Best regards, Adam. "

As a FYI - the product page for the MC-500 is here. Adam also sent links to Neutson's MC500 Forum and OpenShowCenter.
A reader replied to Adam's comments:

" I found the solution to your reader's dilemma:
"I'd probably only use the internet radio facility to be honest. I've not found a way of adding your own addresses yet."

It comes from the product FAQ:

"Can I have my own selection of Internet radio stations?
You can! MC-500 supports Shoutcast MP3 streaming, simply use a software MP3 player such as Winamp 5 to select the station you want to hear. Once you are done, save the selection as a .pls playlist file in the Neuston Media Centre's default audio directory. Now the MC-500 will be able to recognize the playlist file and connect to the radio station you've just selected."

Feel free to pass this along to your reader.
-N "

" Mike, Just thought that some of your readers might want a good price on dual layer dvd media by verbatim. Sony sells them for $9.99 each at this web page with free ground shipping:
(Sony website long URL)
The web page is virtually not findable even using sony's search engine.
Shawn "

These are 2.4x max rated I assume (not spec'd there), although the Pioneer DVR-108 is said to be able to write at 4x on some 2.4x rated DL media. (And remember many DL drives like the Sony 700 model burn DL discs that won't be mountable in Mac OS - although the Pioneer DVR-108 burns DL media with a standard "DVD-ROM" booktype, many other drives do not.)

" I have been very interested in the dual layer burning since I bought my DVR-108. The first two I tried to straight out copy a movie from an external firewire with a DVR-106 drive to the internal DVR-108 in my dual 2.0 G5.
The first two attempts using toast 6.0.7 created coasters with buffer underun errors. Not to happy with that as the discs Verbatim dvd+r dl cost about 9.00 a piece.
So I thought about it for a while not wanting to create another coaster. I remembered back in the bad old days with the first cd-r burners without buffer underrun protection and how toast use to have problems with those types of errors back then. To solve the issue back then I always burned a copy to a toast image file and the burned it from the hard drive. So I decided to try it with the dual layer dvd.
I selected 2x burn speed as the verbatim discs say 2.4x max for dual layer burns.
Then I took the same movie that failed to burn previously and created a toast image.
I then burned the movie from the image file and SUCCESS!!!!!
No buffer underrun errors and the disc mounts and plays on my G5 and my 5-year old sony dvp-s500p dvd player and a newer toshiba sd-k600 dvd player.
I will attempt it again tommorrow but I have to get some more discs first. I sure hope that they come down.
Shawn F."

If you've used a DL drive with Toast 6.0.7 for burning DL discs, let me know your experience. (Include system/OS/Drive, etc. details in reports. Thanks)

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DVD-ROM Drives:
• IDE Artec 16x/48x in G4/AGP (OS X 10.3)
  (listed under "other" brands
  Illustrated CD drive install guide here covers G4 towers up to the Digital Audio Model)
  
  DVD+R/RW + DVD-R/RW Drives:
• USB (cased) Liteon SOHW-832S used w/G5 Tower (OS X 10.3)
  (no native burn support, so used Patchburn II for Panther )
• Firewire (cased) NEC ND 3500 used w/G4 Cube (OS X 10.3)
  (also no native burn support, so using Patchburn II for Panther )
• IDE NEC ND-2500A in G4/AGP (OS X 10.3)
  (no native burn support, you can use patchburn II or the Lacie profile for 10.3.x and this drive also linked on the Patchburn II for Panther page here.
  Illustrated CD drive install guide here covers Beige G3, B&W G3 and G4 Towers)
  
  Hard Drives:
• IDE ExcelStor J680 80GB in B&W G3 (OS X 10.4)
  (listed under "other" brands
  Illustrated guide to adding a 2nd HD here in B&W G3 rev2 and G4 towers up to the QuickSilver models.
  IDE articles page RAID section has an illustrated guide for adding 2 more drives in the side bays.)
• IDE (Serial ATA onboard) Hitachi 7K250 160GB in G5 Tower (OS X 10.3)
• IDE Western Digital 10GB in iMac slot-loading (OS X 10.3)

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