Which Mini Media Player?

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Hello people,

Anyone know of the capabilities of these mini media players you see on the bay and such.

Looking at this as an example:

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Nano-TV-Digital-Mini-Media-Player-HD-Media-Box-1080p-/261036097707

Edit: Also been looking at the Sumvision Cyclone Micro 3 which was reviewed on TrustedReviews, seems to get good reviews, anyone got that?


Looking for first hand experience, any particular model numbers and such? I do remember a guy who bought one and posted it in a GD thread but never asked how it was.

Would you run into problems if you used a memory stick with a 720p mkv on it, transfer speeds and whatnot, or best used with an external hdd.

Thanks for any advice/info!

:)
 
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I bought a Cyclone Micro 3 for my mum a few weeks ago and it's a great little player. I was able to play a 26gb mkv (on a 32gb USB stick) with no problems at all. Likewise, there was no problems playing back an 11gb mkv from an NTFS formatted 16gb SDHC card.

I went for the one with 8gb of internal storage space which comes in useful for storing a fair few older movies or episodes in AVI format.

The remote for the Micro 3 is pretty naff but it's useable. The player would be better controlled with one of the Logitech Harmony series of remotes ... or something similar.
 
Mutt said:
I bought a Cyclone Micro 3 for my mum a few weeks ago and it's a great little player. I was able to play a 26gb mkv (on a 32gb USB stick) with no problems at all. Likewise, there was no problems playing back an 11gb mkv from an NTFS formatted 16gb SDHC card.

I went for the one with 8gb of internal storage space which comes in useful for storing a fair few older movies or episodes in AVI format.

The remote for the Micro 3 is pretty naff but it's useable. The player would be better controlled with one of the Logitech Harmony series of remotes ... or something similar.
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Thanks for that Mutt, I'm going to get one and try, the 8GB onboard will be useful. Personally for me I want it to be able to handle 720p mkv movies, but I know that if my sister wants one all she'll have is avi's and whatnot.

:)
 
I had a Sumvision Cyclone MKV Primus, which is basically a larger version of the Micro with the ability to add in a hard drive.

I returned it because the picture quality was very poor. Everything was very dark in comparison to running off, say, an Xbox 360 or PS3. Could have just been the model I got, but it was bothersome.
 
If you have to buy a USB Flash drive or SDHC card to go along with the Cyclone Micro 3 I'd definitely spend the extra £20 or so to get the WDTV. It all depends on whether you need the ability to be able to stream over your network.
 
I have run a Patriot Box Office for 20 months. Great media player. Never had a problem playing anything... avi, mkv, flv, etc. I flashed it with some fancy firmware which has been very stable. Takes an internal 2.5 hdd or external via usb. Streaming is not great with a wifi dongle, but excellent using the ethernet 100mbps port. Once I finished faffing about with different firmware (to see which one I liked best) and settled on the current one it has been great. It just works.. 1080p works fine on a usb stick. There is great forum support too via the patriot site.
 
stevey3d said:
I have run a Patriot Box Office for 20 months. Great media player. Never had a problem playing anything... avi, mkv, flv, etc. I flashed it with some fancy firmware which has been very stable. Takes an internal 2.5 hdd or external via usb. Streaming is not great with a wifi dongle, but excellent using the ethernet 100mbps port. Once I finished faffing about with different firmware (to see which one I liked best) and settled on the current one it has been great. It just works.. 1080p works fine on a usb stick. There is great forum support too via the patriot site.
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How much does the unit cost please.?
 
Well I got my Sumvision Cyclone Micro 3 today, pretty impressed. You get a USB Power Socket with a usb to 5v pin cable. A mini USB to female USB for connecting memory sticks and external hard drives, a normal USB to Mini USB for actually connecting the unit to your computer to manage the 8GB onboard storage. Not sure why they didn't just put the mini-usb socket at the rear and have a full usb socket on the front, but for me since I've ordered a 32GB SD card I don't think I'll be using the port, but have also ordered a 64GB USB stick to try it.

The menu os is simple but easy to navigate, has options for internal memory and external storage (SD card slot / USB), the internal hdd comes up as a drive with a list of the avi's / mkv's I loaded, the 720p mkv played well, looked good but I only tested it on my crappy TV, loaded the included subtitles as well. Skipping forward works well at different speeds (2/4/16/32 etc), but other than that it does exactly what it says on the box, not fancy or anything but does the job!

As I said I ordered a 32GB SD Card & another HDMI cable so I can properly test it on the living room TV later next week but it looks like its just what I wanted, going to be extremely useful, pretty sure my sister will want one as well. :)

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Good choice mate.

I could see no real difference between the picture quality of the Micro 3 and the WD TV Live SMP on my Samsung LED. You'll be pretty impressed when you eventually hook it up to a decent TV.

The white looks so much better than the black IMHO. The characters/words on the black remote are blue and so, difficult to read in anything other than daylight.
 
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