Best media players
- — 24 February, 2011 10:20
If you've got a shiny new TV and a Blu-ray player, but want to play back music or photo or video files from your desktop PC or notebook, a media player is the way to go. You can load up these devices with media files and easily access them, or you can connect them to your home network and stream video easily. We've put together a list of what we think are the best media players in Australia.
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Dvico TViX M-6600N
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Olive Olive 2
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ASUS O!Play HDP-R1
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Telstra T-Box
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Topfield TRF-7160
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NETGEAR Digital Entertainer Live EVA2000
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Iomega ScreenPlay TV Link Director Edition
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Topfield TRF-2460 Masterpiece HD Plus
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Apple TV
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Western Digital Elements Play Multimedia Drive (2TB)
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Sony SMP-N100
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D-Link Boxee Box
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Western Digital TV Live Hub
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Seagate FreeAgent GoFlex TV (STAJ100)
The WD TV Live Hub media streamer is a good unit overall, and very versatile. You can stream content to it from your computers, or you can store content on its internal hard drive and stream that to other devices. It works on both old TVs and new ones and it supports a huge range of file formats. It also lets you use some Web services (such as Facebook and Flickr) on your TV, but the apps for these services could use some refining.
- Review Date:
- Reviewer:
- Manufacturer:
- 10th Jan., 2011
- Elias Plastiras
- Western Digital
- Rating:
- Price:
- $ 299.00
- Pros:
- Built-in 1TB drive, analog and digital video outputs, small footprint, clean and easy to use interface, good file format support
- Cons:
- Remote control could be better, online features need refining
Comments
samil
1
great for price, but recommends
veola android hub full hd media player at www.ozrealdeals.com.au
allan
2
great for price, but recommends
veola android hub full hd media player at www.ozrealdeals.com.au
surfer
3
Why do you recommend Veola android ? for a media player given todays requirments it offers very little storage capacity "Memory Cards SD/SDHC up to 32GB"
Stig
4
You missed the best of all. The Patriot Box Office.
Around $100 and way better than any of these.
Steve Kurlin
5
Media Players, Shmedia Players, Nothings better than a Jailbroken ATV2 with Firecore. I am so confused though. a Jailbroken device should not be the best media player out there. I have brought loads of different ones because I am convinced there must be better but I just cannot find one.
I will keep looking but the Dvico TViX M-6600N is pretty ho hum.