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)
While the concept - to make stored digital files easily playable at higher quality over a hi-fi system - is a very worthy aim, the Olive Media Olive 2 fell short of our expectations for a product at this price. It's limited to playing last century's 16-bit files, which it does competently enough once you've navigated its clunky interface. Ultimately though it's that awkward, dated and slow user interface, lying just below a cramped and insensitive small touchscreen, that deterred us from turning to the Olive 2 for regular music playing duties at home. In its present guise at least, this is not audiophile technology we'd recommend for your investment.
- Review Date:
- Reviewer:
- Manufacturer:
- 25th Jan., 2010
- Andrew Harrison
- Olive
- Rating:
- Price:
- $ 1,799.00
- Pros:
- Silent, Wi-Fi connectivity
- Cons:
- Annoying user interface, design won't appeal to everyone, can't play 24-bit audio
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.