The Tvix has always had trouble finding its market in this country.  Retailers simply couldn't understand how to place it in their stores since it acted much like an IT product but desperately wanted to appeal to the consumer space.  The problem in the past has been that the Tvix didn't come with a hard drive and so you needed to buy one separately and then have the know-how to install it.  Sure, installing a hard drive is very easy but to the average consumer it was grounds enough to balk at the purchase, if they could find one to buy in the first place.  With the M-6600, Dvico have made some excellent steps in the right direction. 

The device looks like a consumer device and comes with a one terabyte hard drive. Setting it up out of the box requires little to no effort and its functionality is simple to understand thanks to the new improved user interface.  Dvico have streamlined the interface and made it look far more sophisticated with large icons and basic categories like movies, live TV, music and the like.

If you just want to watch and record television or play media downloaded online on the Tvix box itself, it will be a great purchase.  If you want to stream files over your network, you will need a little IT networking knowledge to get it up and running.  It comes with Tvix Netshare software which doesn't seem to do anything.  I spent many hours trying to get it to work and found the only way to get any kind of sharing to happen was to use the sharing options built in to Windows.  The problem with this is that you leave your files venerable to other users on the network and the outside world as well. 

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