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Video: Niveus Media Center (Patreon)

Published:
2024-01-30 18:44:45
Imported:
2026-06

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I was going to come up with a better name for this and a thumbnail and stuff and maybe even release it publicly today but then my power went out. Here's a video everyone lmk what you thinkhttps://youtu.be/Y2OPrGBxkD0

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Niveus Media Center Pt1 RC3

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Comments

Dannysaysnoo

"I have an Apple TV" the Nvidia Shield havers (me) are in arms

Triple A He They

please please PLEASE tell me they did not take off the shelf xbox 360s and shove them into their own branded case I am going to go INSANE.

cathoderaydude

I'm not joking when I say that I made this video almost entirely just so I could make the next one because it honestly gets even more batshit and I can't wait to cover it

cathoderaydude

I also own a shield, but we ran into issues with 4K playback with high bit rate streams that the Apple handled better. I also have several chromecasts

Kirk Lane

"That's where you watch Star Trek!"

Kerne

I literally laughed out loud when that logo appeared. >_<

Kerne

They must have bought thermal goop by the barrel for those things.

Iceron Ranga

Ah yes, Fred Flintstones HTPC, makes one feel a lot better about the hobby fabrication projects.

DiaBomb

Funnily enough, I still use BDs, DVDs and CDs with my PS3 as my "main media system". The only difference to a PC is that I have a weirdly shaped remote.

Twenty After Four

Oh wow this is cool. I worked for Niveus as one of their first employees, got to go to CES in 2007 (the year that Windows Vista launched) and presented our products there.

Twenty After Four

The product that I worked on, specifically, was the Niveus Storage Server. If you ever get one of their storage servers in hands I would kill to see a review of that. And I could provide a ton of insider info about that.. Sadly I don't even have one anymore.

cathoderaydude

Oh wow, can you email me? I'd like to discuss a few things before I go nuclear on my opinion of the company in the next video, lmao. cathoderaydude at Gmail. thanks!

Twenty After Four

I can confirm that the Niveus gear was assembled in a small office in Silicon Valley and all from locally sourced parts, at least initially.

Twenty After Four

It might be interesting to know that the intel raid was probably because we had some sort of a partnership with intel (they were an investor, and some of their executives were our first customers/beta testers) I bet the intel raid was a mandatory feature that we had to implement...OR ELSE

Twenty After Four

I can definitely confirm that the target market was people with more money than sense.

NCLF.net

The end of the video was a technology jump scare, I'm very excited lol

Kris Asick

Fun Fact: My eMail client identified the Patreon notification for this post as a potential scam. I haven't even watched the video yet and I already feel like something very interesting is about to unfold! ;)

Dan Milner

The comedic timing of that dell monitor was *chefs kiss*

Dan Milner

And they still 100% exist, met one only the other day. Has no idea how to use half the stuff he has but all in ceiling speakers, separate room for equipment etc etc

John Kiniston

Man, what a interesting video. I learned new things and as always you kept it entertaining and funny.

Greg

Oddly enough, the heatpipes-billets-and-thermal-goop approach was exactly what I expected when I saw the outside of that case, because it's precisely how the Streacom DB4 that I daily-drive is put together. It comes as a kit, with a chassis, external heatsink panels, and loose heatpipes and clamps, and you put everything together with screws and liberal amounts of thermal paste. And just like the Niveus Media Center, it just works--I'm sitting at about 49C right now.

Elsie Hupp

One technical note: at various points where you have baked-in comments in the video, the text is placed in roughly the same place as where the closed-captioning appears, so the baked-in comments are illegible unless closed-captioning is disabled. So as a more general technical suggestion: it would be better if you don't put anything visually important in the same part of the frame where closed-captions appear. On YouTube this tends to be the middle 50% and bottom 25% of the frame, give or take.

cathoderaydude

Ah, good point. I think I got into a bad habit with this because at first I was putting only small comments down there, or in really big text so it didn't interfere so much. I'll have to figure out a different style. Thank you for letting me know.

Elsie Hupp

Realistically most of the time like… half of the comment is visible… which isn’t really much better than none. Hence just treating an entire section of the frame as “bleed”. If you want to check, you can try watching one of your past videos on a set-top box and scrubbing to a point where there’s a baked-in comment, but closed-captions have varied (and customizable) styling, so they’ll be bigger on some viewers’ devices than others.

Karl Voelker

So, the GPU side of the case has three of those heat sink blocks that do… nothing in particular? They’re just for visual symmetry?

cathoderaydude

Sort of! The rear one is attached to the hard drive cage so theoretically it's doing some work - it's hard to say because it's *also* mashed up against the front panel which is going to be dividing the heat so much that we can't see it on the IR camera. If I were to stick a piece of insulating material in between the two I suspect we'd see that sink warm up quite a bit. But the two in between - yeah, those do nothing directly. Some heat is going to couple from the adjoining sinks but that's it.

_Pai

If someone was going to use a Media Center Extender to connect their TVs and just leave the Denali in a closet somewhere, it kind of begs the question of why not just use the Media Center Extender with any old PC. Perhaps Niveus realized this and part of the motivation to create the Edge was to get the user into their own private ecosystem and thereby justify the purchase of the Denali.

Twenty After Four

They very much wanted the Niveus PC to be the centerpiece of some very expensive home theater setups. The audiophile aesthetic was emulated in order to appeal to that same more-money-than-sense market thay buys $100,000 speakers and $50,000 power amps. (and $2000 cables that are objectively the same or worse than a $25 cable )