Exclusive RighTxT auto subtitle detection function simplifies your foreign movie enjoyment. With Smart Database Manager for easy file indexing, your media libraries will be organized neatly. Pros: For its time it was a pretty brilliant piece of electronics and I can't fault it when it's working right.
You can't expect to play blu-ray through the wifi link - for that you'll need to hard wire it to the network or use a local drive via the SATA input. Useless for online streaming; great for photos and home-videos. I liked it enough that I have two of them however. Once, when I was trying a firmware upgrade, the thing crashed beyond recovery and I thought I had a 'brick'.
However, I opened it up and hooked it to a hyperterminal and was able to reset the internal software - instructions of this are online but it isn't for the faint-hearted. If it happens to you, know that it is likely a software problem and you don't have a brick.
Cons: The organization of the menus is extremely tedious to work with and it often drops the wifi link at start up never while running. The worst feature is the response to the remote - you often have to press a selected button multiple times to get a response and sometimes it give you the wrong response - getting subtitles to work is a pain but ultimately do-able.
The instructions are very poor and the online support is dreadful. Play BDS then I am very interested. Pros: - Seems to play the same file formats as original O! Play HDP R1. Plays them just as well as the original. Cons: - Youtube - very poorly done. In order to actually sign in using your Youtube account, you need to use a USB mouse. Once you sign in, the Youtube app does not let you browse your subscriptions.
Absolutely no quality settings. There are many smaller problems as well, but at the end of the day it does play videos. All actions are very slow - especially connect and disconnect from the service. Not too loud, but noticeable in a small room. The original was silent - why add noise to what was a silent player?
Direct application does not seem to work. Turned off all firewalls and such, but the application is still complaining that the connection fails. I can see it communicating with the O! Play, but even the latest version does not seem to work. Last on the list is Settings, which is so simple that the VMP30 is a doddle to set up. It was when we started getting into HD territory that things began looking grim; a p MOV video displayed severe artefacts before completely crashing the VMP Reckoning a p MOV might be pushing things, we consequently tried a p MOV, which crashed after running with artefacts and stuttering.
Basically every HD file we tried including DivX and AVI displayed severe artefacts, stuttered, skipped, froze or just crashed the whole unit. Thinking this might be a problem with early firmware, we contacted ViewSonic, who informed us that no updates are planned.
However, we were told that the maximum bit-rate the VMP30 could handle for H. Frankly this is incredibly low and makes the player unsuitable for most common HD video files. It did explain our failed tests though, as crashes generally occurred at points where the variable bit-rate went above this figure.
Additionally the Mini supports more audio and image formats than the ViewSonic and has a more polished interface, but on the other hand the VMP30 supports more standard definition video formats and offers a digital video output, so choosing between the two depends on your priorities. Editorial independence means being able to give an unbiased verdict about a product or company, with the avoidance of conflicts of interest.
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You just connect your choice of video and audio connection to your TV, plug in the power adapter, and press the power button on your remote and away you go. These you can then browse for your multimedia files.
Back to the menu system and there are three basic routes to your media; photos, music, and videos. When files are sorted into Photos, Music, and Videos, unrelated file types are simply hidden from view so if you have a folder containing multiple file types and browse it through Videos it will only show video files; through Music, only music files, etc. However, assuming you keep your files reasonably organised it is a simple and intuitive system to get around, which is more than can be said of some seemingly more sophisticated interfaces on other devices.
This makes it possible to swap and share files without the need to start up a computer. When browsing video and photo files, previews appear in the right panel, which is quite useful though we would prefer a proper thumbnail view instead. Also, this preview mode suffers in the same way that the Seagate FreeAgent Theater did: you must wait until the preview has finished loading until you can actually tell the player to play it.
Other features include the ability to zoom up to x16 into video and photos and pan around them. Repeat and shuffle functions are available for music, and like the other features just mentioned, there are dedicated buttons on the remote to control this. Indeed, the clear plastic shuffle button is the most prominent button on the whole remote.
All the major video file formats are supported including mkv and rmvb and resolutions of up to p are all playable. Playback is smooth and loading times are near instantaneous.
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