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58 of 60 people found the following review helpful: By Amazon Verified Purchase(What's this?) This review is from: Micca MPLAY-HD 1080p Full-HD Digital Media Player For USB Drives and SD/SDHC (Realtek 1055) (Electronics) I chose this little box over the NBox and other comparable media players, mainly because it has a wider array of audio/video ports, and it pretty much splits the difference price-wise. I am using the HDMI port for my plasma screen, and the digital coaxial port for my receiver. I am beholden to Western Digital My Passport Essential USB drives, and I couldn't be happier with the results. The HD picture looks fantastic, and the booming 5.1 surround sound far exceeds what I could get out of my laptop. It browses reasonably fast through your files, folders, and sub-folders, and it offers continuous playback of your media. It played AVI, MPG, MP4, VOB, MKV, and pictures with no problems. The box is packed with composite cables and a short component video cable. It has two USB ports, and you can supposedly copy/paste/delete between the two, and apparently you can play a photo slideshow and music simultaneously, neither of which I have tried yet.
However, it does have it's...Read more 44 of 45 people found the following review helpful: By J.B. (MN, USA) - See all my reviews Amazon Verified Purchase(What's this?) This review is from: Micca MPLAY-HD 1080p Full-HD Digital Media Player For USB Drives and SD/SDHC (Realtek 1055) (Electronics) I received my new Mplay-HD yesterday and have been using it pretty extensively, throwing a large variety of videos at it and exploring all the features. I can say without reservation that this is currently the best low cost HD media player available.
I've been using digital media players for a few years now, starting with the earlier TVIX models in 2008, and I've owned other brands such as WD, Seagate, Asus, and most recently this Micca unit. The main draw for me to this unit is that it's one of first players to have the new Realtek 1055 chipset. This chipset was released in late 2010 and players using it started showing up in early 2011. The best thing about the 1055 is that it delivers the same video and audio decoding capabilities as the high end Realtek and Sigma Design chips, but they keep the cost down by not including network, SATA, USB3.0, and other features which users may or may not want. Essentially, if you want a well performing stand alone media player and...Read more 16 of 18 people found the following review helpful: By Amazon Verified Purchase(What's this?) This review is from: Micca MPLAY-HD 1080p Full-HD Digital Media Player For USB Drives and SD/SDHC (Realtek 1055) (Electronics) From the Product Description: "The MPLAY-HD makes finding and playing your media files quick and easy. Its media library feature is like Google for your videos and music, finding exactly what you want is just a quick search away even when you have thousands of files."
Um... My 250 gig hard drive takes two hours to index. That's NOT "quick and easy". I can imagine that this player would seem perfectly wonderful for anyone just starting out in life, with only a handful of media files. You know: a few dozen songs; the holiday photos; 3 movies. The interface would seem awesome. The 10-second delay while the machine indexed your couple of hundred files would be almost no worse than waiting for your DVD player to read a disc menu. But fast forward to the same person, 6 months later, with a few thousand songs, 150,000 images, and 5 movies, and this player is just an utterly frustrating kid's toy version of what it actually claims to be. Prior to having...Read more |