Xtreamer Pro Media Player Review
Xtreamer Pro Media Player Description
Xtreamer PRO player is media player that based on the same successful platform of the smaller Xtreamer model. Xtreamer Pro allows you to stream HD (MKV H.264) movies or user-generated videos, listen to high-quality digital music and show high-resolution photo slide-shows on your TV. Xtreamer Pro with the added dual 3.5″ SATA drive bays, you can now have a gigantic capacity of up to 4 TB storage. The Xtreamer Pro is equipped with double the memory of the smaller model and adds an ultra-fast eSATA connector (with dedicated controller chip on-board).
Experience Xtreamer Pro with the new spectacular artistic GUI on your TV screen and amazing picture quality of HD video and crystal clear 7.1 CH digital audio.* Chipset: Realtek 1283X JM20336 – Dedicated Storage Controller Memory: 512mb Total: 256MB DDR 2 SDRAM & 256MB Flash Audio/Video outputs: HDMI v1.3a (up to 1080p) Composite Video Stereo Analog Audio S/PDIF Optical Digital Audio Interface: 1x USB 2.0 slave 2x USB 2.0 host Internal SATA 2 eSATA Front Network: Ethernet 10/100 RJ-45 OPTIONAL USB WIFI 802.n Antenna (SOLD SEPERATELY)
Media Support: BluRay ISO with Simple Navigation Commercial DVD with menus. Artistic GUI: Multilingual On Screen Display , Subtitles & GUI: Arabic, Thai, Hebrew,Vietnamese, Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Spanish, German, Italian, Turkish, Greek , Dutch, French, Latvian, Russian, Croatian, Portugese, Swedish, Polish, Romanian, Ukrainian, English, Magyar, Czech, Slovenian, Finish, Danish, UTF-8
Xtreamer Pro Features
- Two 3.5″ Hard Drive Bay with up to 4TB Hard Disk Capacity
- Integrated dedicated eSATA controller & PC eSATA bracket included
- Twice the Memory of the original Xtreamer
- Stunning HD Graphical User Interface
- Full 7.1 HD Audio SupportDTS-HS MA & Dolby True-HD NOT YET AVAILABLE (requires a pending firmware update!)
Xtreamer Pro User Reviews
So, I’ve had a few days to test out the Xtreamer Pro. I have experience with the ROKU box and loved it. I thought I would solve a network storage for media problem as well as eliminating a DVD carousel and CD carousel.
The Pros :
Xtreamer Pro is tiny. The box looks nice. The remote is easy to use and has special function keys to speed things up. With fan on low, I only hear hard-drive noise. The UI is usually fast (although it slows down when switching thumbnails) and the boot time is fast. DVD ISOs seem to play without issue. DVD ISOs stream across wireless N without a problem. The device found all of my NAS shares devices automatically. The video quality seems to be good but it is hard to tell as I have had to drop back to composite video as I do not have HDMI.
The Cons :
- Firmware: Xtreamer Pro firmware provided needs a good bit of work. The functions implemented are brittle. Something works for this file this way and for the next file of the same type it will not. You either get a black screen that you can get out of or the device reboots altogether. Currently, the device reboots all of the time for me as I try something, it hangs and then restarts. The device UI is designed for large screen displays. On my 32″, the text is very hard to read. Will not copy files to the box without a flash drive inserted even though it has HD installed.
- Music: Xtreamer Pro fails to play any file from my Thecus NAS N2100 Network Attached Media Server (Black). However, it will stream across the network from a PC and will play locally.
- Jukebox: Xtreamer Pro performance is slow.
- Video: When Xtreamer Pro playing videos through the optical digital cable, it appears that the device is outputting analog signals as opposed to digital. I suspect this because the PCM indication is raised with my receiver rather than just Dolby.
- Internet TV: The implementation of the internet tv screens is badly laid out. The thumbnails either do not load or are mismatched in size.
Summary:
- The UI is several steps down from the ROKU standard I love.
- The reliability of just doing what is supposed to be supported is not there.
Buy From Amazon for 194.96 for Xtreamer Pro
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