Tuesday, January 10, 2012

XTREAMER PRO Media Player & Network Streamer (2 x 3.5" Hard Drive Bays)


Manufacturer : Xtreamer
Model : pro2bayms
ASIN : B003DVU0HG
Price : 249.99$
Last Price : 194.96$(Discount 22.0128805152206%
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Product Description

The Xtreamer PRO player is based on the same successful platform of the smaller Xtreamer model. It 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. 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 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
Most Helpful Customer Reviews

11 of 12 people found the following review helpful:
Good Hardware but needs work
  
This review is from: XTREAMER PRO Media Player & Network Streamer (2 x 3.5" Hard Drive Bays) (Electronics)

The good: This box 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 difficult:
Firmware:
The 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:

Jukebox:
Performance is slow.

Video:
When 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.


7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:
Great Player for Certain People
This review is from: XTREAMER PRO Media Player & Network Streamer (2 x 3.5" Hard Drive Bays) (Electronics)
This is my third media payer over the last five years or so. The first was an Mvix/Unicorn product, the second was a WD HDTV, and the third is this box. All three are good in their own ways, but this one beats the other two hands down.

This player may not be for everyone out there, because the menus and some features are a little "rough" as other have said, or at least are not exactly intuitive. Put another was, this is the exact opposite of an Apple product. Note: that's not necessarily a bad thing!

This is what this product does well:

- It allows you organize massive amounts of media storage into one simple menu for playback on your TV - just set any folder from any internal drive, external usb, etc. to the "Favorites" list.
- It plays back just about any file type I can throw at it (My WDHDTV had problems with some MKV formats)
- Frequent updates address many of the issues that other users have reported. Also note that the updates can de done directly from the menu (as long as you have the wifi antenna) so no need to search for a download, plug in the laptop, etc.
- Internet radio, you tube, internet TV channels, etc.
- File transfer feature is pretty cool - this allows you to transfer files from one place to another without the need to plug the device into a computer. For example, plug in a flash drive or usb hard drive, then transfer over what you want to the internal drive without having to use a computer.
- MASSIVE STORAGE (two internal 3.5 bays, esata, two usb ports, plus the possibility of streaming over the network)!

In sum, if you want ultimate ease of use (and you like paying $10-$20 for compressed video files) get yourself an AppleTV, but if you want ultimate functionality and you can deal with figuring out a few settings and menus, and especially if you want to terabyte upon terabyte of storage for your HD MKV files or whatever format you happen to have your movie collection in (ISO, avi, MP4...etc.), this player may be for you!


3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
EXCELLENT PRODUCT
This review is from: XTREAMER PRO Media Player & Network Streamer (2 x 3.5" Hard Drive Bays) (Electronics)


Most Recent Customer Reviews

Robust, and easy to use with great options for expandability
The Xtreamer media player is a great device for those who require a very large storage space. It contains 2 x 3.
by Will Koh

centro multimedia
Excelente compra.
El producto ha funcionado muy bien, lee todo los formatos y tiene herramientas en linea bastante buenas.
by P. Huichalaf Roa

THIS THING LOVES TO REBOOT SPONTANEOUSLY - IM SENDING IT BACK!!!!
I thought this product was great, I read good reviews about it, but mine just spontaneously reboots!!!!. Upgraded to the new firmware, but didn't fix it!
by GalleonPort

understand this and you will be ok
This is one of many solutions that I have setup for myself and some friends.

Recently did a network for my friend and chose this product even after reading many...
by John Salazar

The best!
Plays files a WD Live wouldn't, handles two 2 Tb USB drives (a WD Live crashed with), and sees the PCs on the network.
by AZ-J

Stream over Network so bad
The stream over network is terrible, a crap, the files over 2GB get stuttering, if you want to use the xtreamer pro like a media center over your network FORGET IT but if you...
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I like this thing
I just purchased this Xtreamer Pro unit, and received it a few days ago. So far, I am very happy with the unit.
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