None of my Media Player is bug free. By comparison, I have / had the following devices:
Freecom 350wlan
WD TV Gen 1
WD mini
TVIX 6500m
Fantec S3600
Fantec 3DS4600
Raspberry Pi
Popcorn A400
Of the above-mentioned is the 3DS4600 the only one I give up after 6 months use. It started in the fall of 2013 with a mediocre usable firmware version. Had this been improved, it would probably come at least to the level of the S3600.
Today, however, he still has the following bugs:
- Does not play the m2ts files of all the old BD's from, for example, the James Bond films
- Failure to stop movies with TrueHD when RAW mode is issued. In this case, after stopping remains a permanent buzzing sound. Was not in the original FW.
- Subtitles entries come twice.
- Total crashes. Only power off / on the power again revived.
- DVD structures can not be streamed from the network
Fatal are the limitations of DVD and BD. Now why he went into early retirement. Replacement is the popcorn A400. Despite the streaky reviews I ventured a try and did not regret it. The Popcorn plays everything. I have not found format, you can not. AVCHD 2.0 I would like to try, but can not actually a media player. After the change, I also found that the image quality of Fantec must have been bad. The Poppi has an incredibly sharp image and movements are completely liquid. The switch worth it alone for's image. (Have a 60 "Sharp Quattron)
Fantec currently has long development cycles and is not really on the Site a. So that will certainly be no better. Basically, I'm even more convinced that Realtek's still a cheap provider. He can not hold a candle to the Sigma chip in popcorn, Tvix and WD.
