The media drive can be used with a PC to manage your videos, images and other media files, storing them on the internal hard disk. You can then playback the contents on your TV – it’s that simple. With its complete DVD menu support, photo viewer with thumbnail preview, it makes it the best choice for building the consumer’s digital home theatre system.
- High-speed external hard disk with stand-alone media player
- Load your videos, pictures and music
- Download video, audio and images via your PC and immediately play them back through your TV
- Can be used as a standard external hard drive
- 3.5-inch high speed SATA hard disk drive installed
- Unique DVD folder playback feature: directly play the ripped DVD
- Easy to use on-screen file navigation, supporting multi-language
- Navigate using the included remote control
- Powerful DivX subtitle display feature; supports most of the subtitle file formats
- USB 2.0 interface
- Video media formats: DVD-Video, DivX 3.11/4.x/5.x, Xvid, SVCD, VCD 1.1/2.0, MPEG-1, MPEG-2
- File extension formats: DAT, MPEG, VOB, AVI, DivX, XVID, JPEG, MP3, M2P, WAV
- Audio media formats: MP3, WAV files
- 5.1 support
- Image media formats: JPEG
- Content resolution: DivX file up to 720 X 576 resolution/ JPEG file Up to 5120 X 3840 pixel
- Video upscaling to 720P for better picture quality
- Component video output: NTSC-480i / 480p / PAL-576i / 576p / 720p
- Supports 16:9 and 4:3 TV screen
- Media outputs: composite, component, SCART and digital audio outputs
- Media format support: FAT32 / NTFS
- Supports Windows 98SE/ME/2000XP/2000 and Vista
- Dimensions: 196(l) x 58(w) x 126(h) mm
- Please note: the media player does not record from your TV
Many of us have hard drives that we use to store our home movies and music or have endless amounts of DVDs and CDs, so it would make sense to store them all in one place. The difference with a media drive is that you can store then play all of your multimedia files, home movies, etc directly to your TV - no streaming, no hassle and without the need to conect to a PC once the files have been loaded. Just simply plug in, sit back and enjoy!
Customer Reviews on this Product
Mark
(21/08/2009)
It is always a grind buying computer and AV bits, finding out which manufacturers have broken what standards, to make it work with the latest version of Windows at the expense of those who have a mind to dare think about and choose their operating systems.
No problems with the little INoI.. Plug it in with Ubuntu Linux, and away it goes - its a generic USB storage device! :-) Well. it was formatted with NTFS as standard, but will work formatted to FAT-32. (NTFS works ok "out of the box" with Ubuntu 7.04 upwards, may work on earlier versions, and is doable on most linux system with a bit of fiddling. - but its fine to reformat to FAT-32 "out of the box", providing you don't use any files bigger than 2GB - a Microsoft Limit)
Good stuff: Fast (especially when reformatted) USB2 hard disk, quality Western Digital drive, Reasonably ergonomic and simple to use media player, with reasonable picture and sound quality. works well with many sensible file formats. Handles common subtitle formats reasonably well, though requires some twiddling. Lovely aluminium case design that runs "warm", but seems to do so safely.
Bad stuff: STUPID "On" button on rear of unit. Why doesn't it just power up into standby???
Distracting bright blue LED, Fairly noisy, formatted with NTFS out of the box, does not support Ogg Vorbis/Theora audio/video formats (EVERYTHING should, they are technically excellent and license/royalty free standards!)
Big Minus-Remote control is flimsy AND CANNOT BE REPLACED, the unit is a brick without it. (well, an external hard drive, but nowt else..)
It doesn't support Matroska either, but you can't have it all.
Overall good value for money, but could be quieter, have more subtle LEDs, power up "in standby" rather than requiring a user to get up and reach around the back to press a little button, should support ogg vorbis audio and theora video standards, and possibly Matroska containers too.
For a little under £100 (It was on an offer) it was a bargain, and replaced a much more expensive (and quite recent) unit.
Frequently Asked Questions
Q- can you import and playback a non copyrighted dvd on this keeping its original menus and structure etc?
- adam
Answer- yes the product does support that via the DVD "video ts" folder
Q- Can you use playlists with this media drive?
- Jeff
Answer- yes using the supplied playlist software.
Q- does this product come with software to rip DVDs onto the drive?
- craig
Answer- No sorry this product does not support that.
Q- can i use this drive to store music for my ipod?
- Andy Nicholls
Answer- The unit will act as storage for this data but may not play all files back directly as ITunes tends to use AAC encoding which is not playable via said unit.
Q- Can it play quicktime files?
- JMA
Answer- No sorry this product does not support that. Supported media types can be seen on the product features.
Q- can movies be loaded directly from usb key ?
- dermott
Answer- No sorry this product requires connection a PC in order to transfer files.
Q- what voltage doe sthe Inoi media player work on or is it dual voltage.
- eric whittaker
Answer- This will only work on 240v.
Q- is the HD compatable with PAL and NTSC TV sets?
- Andy Fisher
Answer- The unit can output to both PAl and NTSC
Q- Are the necessary leads to connect to the TV supplied as standard?
- smj
Answer- yes leads are included
Q- Does this product have ethernet capability
- woody
Answer- No sorry this product does not have an ethernet connection
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