Wednesday, July 19, 2006
MediaMan-HVX-3500 Multi-Player
Posted by Jason Dunn in "HARDWARE" @ 06:00 AM
"The MediaMan is the first serious step towards centralising all of your digital media. Imagine a unit where you can easily create your own folders, download and arrange your entire media collection and take it with you anywhere....well imagine no more and read on....The MediaMan supports 3.5 inch IDE drives which allows you to choose the size of hard drive you need for your media. Once fitted, the hard drive can easily be formatted as if it were an external disk and then you can simply organise your DVDs, videos, music and photos. After loading the MediaMan, it can be connected to your TV and a comprehensive menu system allows you to view all your media in comfort and is easily controllable via the MediaMan remote."
One word: WOW. 8O If this thing is as good in real life as it is on paper, this is one slick media player. I particularly like the option to do DVI output, or analog component, at 720p or 1080i. It's so refreshing to see something other than composite or S-Video. Imagine slapping a 750 GB drive in that beast. Yeah baby, yeah! The list of supported file formats is killer as well; it includes AVI, MPG, VOB, IFO, ISO, MPEG, DAT, MP3, WMA, OGG, and JPG. DivX support is also included, although they only specify 5.x support, I hope 6.x is also supported. The unit without a hard drive is £126, which is about $234 USD.
One word: WOW. 8O If this thing is as good in real life as it is on paper, this is one slick media player. I particularly like the option to do DVI output, or analog component, at 720p or 1080i. It's so refreshing to see something other than composite or S-Video. Imagine slapping a 750 GB drive in that beast. Yeah baby, yeah! The list of supported file formats is killer as well; it includes AVI, MPG, VOB, IFO, ISO, MPEG, DAT, MP3, WMA, OGG, and JPG. DivX support is also included, although they only specify 5.x support, I hope 6.x is also supported. The unit without a hard drive is £126, which is about $234 USD.
