I am not happy with the product. I just found out today that shared videos are not transcoded. The friend or family member is going to "try" and watch the original file not the transcoded copy. Pogoplug suggested a workaround. I have the convert the video file manually and then share the file.

It is very disappointing that I have to manually transcode the shared video.

I believe that takes the magic and convenience of the Pogoplug.

I can be at my office share the video file to my friends and family and they can watch the video from the office or home.

Ooops I can't, I have to go home transcode manually first, because the video it is going painfully slow, because shared files are not transcoded

It is too bad

Hi
there is not much I can add, however, for me it is important to say: Everything besides videos works GREAT with Pogoplug. If you share photos, documents or music it is amazing what this little thing can do. What is left is to make things a little easier for those people you share with. I have mentioned this several times now but repeat it anyways (hoping that CE will listen :-) ). Something like the Jukebox is truly fantastic but this is for the moment only available for the PP owner. It should be available for those people I share my music with.
Also despite negative opinions you can read in the forums I still believe that 'Active copy' to back up files works very well too. And the PP software (free or paid version) is great, too.
Bottom line: Pogoplug is a great tool to share media etc. with other people. the functionality is great, plus YOU control what happens (or not) because it is YOUR personal cloud and not data which is sent to an anonymous server somewhere.
Still there is a construction site to work on but I am sure the fine people at CE will go down the correct avenue.

mines basically works for the limited scope of media sharing. my expectations are so low that if it exceeds it, I am generally pleased. it generally works okay for a device that consumes less than 5 watts of power and costs around 35-50$.

doesn;t stop me from trying to "push the envelope" on occasion. tried copying 3 gigs of mwdium sized video files from it simultaneously to an Android device sdhd card directly and it failed miserably-disconnected and alot of broken transfers. it could have been any combo of the weak hardware, congested wifi, flakiness of the android app and tablet/phones, non multi taking nature of usb 2.0 storage devices.....but usually copying 1 file at a time works. plus copying to a pc with a Android device attached via USB worked fine.