end of January've gained the multimedia hard drive because I was looking for a player with as much internal memory. For the price, the choice was not difficult ...
Positive aspects:
- Plays virtually all popular audio and video formats.
- Very performant, even at full HD .mkv files!
- Extremely quiet. The hard drive is barely audible during playback. The device can still be uncovered next to the screen ...
- All videos are played in both HDMI port, as well as via Composite (RCA) without problems.
- The hard disk goes without switched on (button on the back, or something). It's enough of a button on the remote control.
- It can connect other USB storage devices to the plate and media contained play. (Not tested)
Negative aspects:
- As a very disadvantageous I feel the non-existent support of DTS sound. Just a lot of MKV files include the direct copy of a DTS streams that the device itself can not play. I have not tested, but via the optical audio output, this will play a DTS-enabled surround sound system well. When a video starts normally hear nothing!
Since my machine that actually appeals to and understand the least of multimedia hard drives due to DTS DTS licensing costs, I have the videos with soundtracks selfsame umkonvertiert, in Dolby Surround! This also works in batch mode wonderful and relatively fixed with the "PopCorn MKV Audio Converter", which was designed especially for the Umkonvertierung of DTS to AC3. The software can be found at the following link: [...]
(For more information about the program ask Google!)
- The USB port appears to be a bit slow (read / write speed). If only USB 2.0 ...
Conclusion:
Having umkonvertiert my MKV videos with DTS track, there are now no more restrictions. Everything is played wonderfully! Super product, except for the small DTS shortcoming.
Accordingly, I can only recommend the thing. For those who want massive storage and simple playback of all modern media formats, the hard drive is just the ticket. (One can connect a USB hub and several additional disks to the media player theoretically even ;-)
Have fun with it!