Cheap media player?

[kaiowas]

Saw these in maplin last week. On the surface it looks like a very cheap alternative to building a media PC for playing my video files on the TV

Only drawback I can see at the moment that the only video output option is Composite (there is VGA but my old CRT TV wouldn't know what to do with that!) Am I missing something or is this as good as it looks?

[Mark]

Link? ;)

[kaiowas]

Doh!

http://www.maplin.co.uk/module.aspx?ModuleNo=218038&doy=9m8

[Mark]

For what it is, that's pretty good, assuming of course the firmware is up to the job. I'd recommend taking a look at other options (e.g. Pinnacle Showcentre) before you buy though.

[Fayshun]

I got one last week and stuck a 400Gb drive I had from a cancelled project in it. I've put a couple of films on it to test it out and it's actually pretty good. The menu screen is a bit slow to bring the thumbnails up although it previews the movie when you highlight the thumbnail.

It's going to save the DVDs from small fingers!

[kaiowas]

I ended up buying on of these. Was pleasantly surprised to find that the price had dropped since I first posted.

The software is a bit clunky but when you think of this as a USB hard drive enclosure that just happens to work as a media player then it's a bargain.