Faster Media Player? Nope!

First the positive:
+ Quality workmanship
+ Solid aluminum housing

Why I gave him back:

- A Multimedia player should be able to process more data quickly - the Fantec HDMI mini TV Media Player can not!
Even with a relatively small hard drive (80GB What makes de Fantec only when I connect a 500GB?) It takes minutes for the content shows on the screen. And this all, if the media is connected again. During the "waiting period" the player does not respond, it may not even be switched off.

- A Multimedia player should be able to deal with existing folder structures - the Fantec can not!
The player scans depending on the selection (music, photo or video) the entire hard drive for the appropriate files (hence the "waiting period") and shows the full results at once. Whether the contents have been clean structured in different directories stored, not interested in the Fantec. I have stored eg my photos the last 8 years ordered clean in yearly and monthly lists. The Fantec then shows me the photos all at once. The Christmas party in 2002 at the same time in addition to the photos of 2009. What a botch! Possibly Is it due to the formatting of the disk; NTFS formatted my was what's usual standard.

- A video player should have both automatic as well as manual video format conversion - he did not!
Is the format (eg 16: 9 or 4: 3) stored incorrectly in a video file, it is not possible with the Fantec player to manually adjust the size correctly. In practice, this means that a wrong of stored 4: 3 film distorted is played and you have no way to manually switch the format to the correct representation.

There are a few other details that really bother me:
- Eg full Zuückspulen a film work is very limited, said on German dam ... Example: I want to watch in the evening only the first half is a long film and see it to the end of the next day. The funzt only minutes long fast forward, a "time jump" is not possible.
- Next the player has very few settings in the menu; and are then often also Spielkram.

Unusable All in all for me. The 2nd star there just because of the processing.

Ciao, your Matze alias Ali of the hand bag