tvisto player

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Model No. TV-FRU2UPS

Colour Silver and Black

Case Material Brushed aluminum panels with plastic body

Application Any 3.5" Parallel ATA Hard Drive (Desktop size HDD)

Playback Media Formats Video:

MPEG-1 (AVI, MPG)

MPEG-2 (AVI, VOB), ISO *

MPEG-4 (AVI, DivX, DivX VOD, XviD) ***


DivX Subtitle:

SUB (MicroDVD format), SRT (SubRIP format), SMI (SAMI format), Embedded Multiple Subtitle support

Audio:

WAV, MP3, MPEG-4 (AAC) ****, WMA, AC3, OGG Vorbis


Photo:

JPG baseline and progressive up to 8 mega pixel


Supported Filesystem NTFS

FAT32

HFS+


Operating System Embedded Linux (v2.4 ucLinux)

Bus Interface USB 2.0 High Speed (USB1.1 backwards compatible)

Firewire 400 (IEEE 1394a)


Output Interfaces Video: NTSC/PAL Composite Video, S-Video, Analog YPbPr Video, SCART RGB, VGA (1024x768), HDTV (480p, 720p, 1080i)

Audio: Dual Stereo Analog Audio supporting compressed Dolby Digital 5.1 and DTS pass through


System Requirements Windows 98SE, Win2000, WinME, WinXP

Mac OS 9.2 or higher

Your hardware device must have proper port or PCI card


Power Supply External Power Adapter universal auto-switching (UL, cUL)

Input: AC 100-240V, 1.2A, 50-60Hz

Output: DC +5V/2A, +12V/2A


Enclosure Size 22.2cm x 15.2cm x 4.8cm

Packing Contents


Optional Accessories

(click here) TVisto (no HDD included)

USB 2.0 cable, AV cable, SPDIF Coaxial Cable

Infrared Remote Control

Power Adapter

Manual, screw package, driver CD

**


Carton/Packing Retail Box Size: 27cm x 22cm x 12.6cm

Carton Size: 66cm x 46cm x 29.6cm (10pcs per carton)

G.W.


Remarks * ISO = One image file backup of the complete DVD. 'Mvisto' will play the ".ISO" file exactly the same as if it was running from the original DVD!


** Additional accessories available on request (MOQ 500pcs)


*** Plays DivX® 5, DivX® 4, DivX® 3 and DivX® VOD video content (in compliance with DivX Cerfitied™ technical requirements)


**** AAC stands for "Adaptive Audio Coding" and does not support AAC files created by iTunes!


# Does not support High Definition content (DivX HD/WMV9)

Had my TVisto for about 6 months. All-in-all, I've enjoyed it. Good $120 spent. I've got a 400Gb Maxtor in it now, with picts, movies and audio. But this product has some shortcomings:


1. No streaming. No network. No uploading or downloading to the box while its in player mode. You must reboot the device before and after you plug in your USB or Firewire to swap files. You can't do this with the remote. You also can't leave the USB or Firewire cable plugged in and use it in player mode. Designed to be very isolated.


2. If we forget to turn it off, the screen saver comes on. No big deal. Until we've ignored it for 10 minutes or so. At that point, you can wake it from the screen saver, but that's about it- the remote and buttons on the front become completely unresponsive. Required a serious reboot - i.e. flip the switch in the back. (This maybe a bug that can be fixed, if so please let me know.)


3. There is no control over color or brightness or contrast. Specifically, my TVisto has problems with crazy oversaturated reds - they actually pullsate!! Hellboy took on a whole new meaning.


4. Multipart movies don't transition seemlessly and they have to be the only two items in a folder so that the playall button works.


5. Has a buttom for "playall random", but it doesn't apply to subfolders. This is a real pain when I want to leave pictures flipping by in the background at a party for example.


6. DO NOT BUY THIS PRODUCT FOR A PICTURE VIEWER OR MP3 PLAYER!! They're just cute little add ons. You should relie on them no more than that. Picts are often stretched or distorted.


7. The Iso feature is very cool - don't use it alot because full DVDs take up too much space, but its cool. You can use all the usual navigation features very effectively. I say that to say....controlling a compressed movie is like drinking from a firehose. Fastforward jumps too far, rewind does the same. Very clunky. We've learned to hit the pause button fast.


8. I have had minimal lipsync issues - it mostly depends on how my "friends" have ripped a movie. Adjusting the aspect ratio is very clunky. And I still haven't figured out how to best rip my own movies to play optimally on this thing.


If the MG-35 didn't have a markup of $20 for network ability, I definitely would have bought it. Not too sure I shouldn't have. But this works for now. Wouldn't give it to my grandmother, but its usable.


Oh - sorry I don't have any HD info for you guys - still on a plain ol TV.