This appears to be the lowest priced Realtek 1185 based player I've ever seen. Micca is not a big brand like Western Digital but I've seen their name mentioned on forums so they are at least "known". My AIOS player died and I wanted a replacement that also used the 1185. I don't have a 3D TV yet so the additional cost of upgrading to the Realtek 1186 was not worth it to me.Unlike the AIOS, the Micca doesn't have an internal drive bay. I never actually installed a drive in the AIOS, but those who really want an internal drive bay should look at a different player. I stream my videos directly from my computer, and sometimes use a USB drive, and for that the EP100 is plenty good. Even though the LAN connection is 100mbps rather than full gigabit, local streaming worked like a champ and I had no issues streaming anything. Since the 1185 chipset is so mature, there were no surprises with the EP100, everything works in a familiar fashion, which is to say that everything plays and plays well. The remote control has great angle/range and the player's interface is simple and responsive. Like all Realtek network players, there are some Internet content links, but they are not really worth exploring. It would be far more productive to setup something like PlayOn DNLA server on the computer and use the EP100 to stream from that.
Build quality is great, like a solid hunk of aluminum, it feels very solid. The remote feels a tad light, but the buttons feel good. In all I don't see any quality sacrifices for the low price. I've played with it for a few nights now after receiving it earlier last week and I can be pretty confidently say that it's a great player that's powerful, well made, and stable.I needed something that i could play my movies that were in avi mov mp4 divx etc. formats. And this truly delivered. It is so simple our 5 year old can use it. It is quick and easy, just a plug and play. It has other functions that I haven't used yet like a browser and Netflix. I bought this bc my ps3 or xbox 360 wouldn't play from external hard drives that are hundreds of gigabytes let alone the 1 TB passport i have. I think this goes up to 2 TB for external drives. It has 2 USB ports and the capability to copy and paste files in between drives (aka transfer files). For this price it is a deal hard to pass up. Extremely satisfied!I have had many media players in the past from Roku to WD TV Live.But they all failed in terms of local media play. This player plays 720P and 1080P movies like butter. It is fast and smooth playback. The design of the media box is very solid. It does not feel like cheap plastic like on the WD TV Live. I returned the WD TV Live and got this because this media player is so much better.
This player supports full 7.1 audio. This media player has the realtek 1185 and at this price it is the cheapest 1185 media player on amazon currently. You will not go wrong with this media player. I currently have a 3TB WD mybook external hard drive attached to this. Works like a charm. This is the best media player for local media playback.I have used media streaming for several years now, and my last purchase final bite the dust, so I purchased the Micca Ep100, not only was it worth the money, but I was delighted that it arrived so quickly. If you need internal drive inside the box, this is not the right product, but if you stream off the network...thumbs up.
Micca EP100 DLNA SAMBA Mulimedia Player with E-SATA. My setup includes ZyXEL NSA-320 NAS which stores various media. Pushing media from PC is a great and Twonky beam on Android works well. For the money I paid for this player ... And yeah you can attach USB based DVD player or Blu-Ray and play your files you keep on good old physical media discs.
TnX!
P.S. Hope they improve GUI with more English based options (Mandarin or Cantonese is not my strongest point at the moment)


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