AVerMedia MCECINEMA Averlife Cinema Media Player

• Support Video: Max Resolution: HDMI output up to 720p,/RM/RMVB up to 1024x574/MPEG 1&2/AVI/DivX/XviD/DAT &
• Support Audio: MP3/OGG/WAV
• Support Photo: JPG/JPEG/BMP/PNG/TIFF/GIF
• Support Text File: Txt . MOV up to 720x576
• HDMI Output, up to 720p;Enjoy videos in various formats;
• Create a photo slideshow of family and friends directly on your TV
• Listen to your favorite songs by streaming audio files in different formats ;

Bottom Line: Good for pictures anywhere or video files on a small screen. (To be fair, for the price this isn't all that bad. I bought it for a bit less than "the price" on sale so I feel even better.)

The unit is small, about the size of a paperback book. I liked that it came with both a component cable (necessary because the player-side connection is non-standard) and an HDMI connector. The player display and menus have a polished look, unlike some low cost media players still available.

Image display is nice. There are a number of built in, nicely done, transitions, and you can configure it to use one all the time or select randomly.

Video display is where this thing falls apart. To test it I rendered the same short movie clip at three different MPEG-2 resolutions. VCD 480x480, PC 640x480, and HD 1920x1080. The VCD played fine but was fuzzy on my large screen. The PC version was sharper but noticeable slower. (The accompanying audio changed key... actually, several keys.) The HD version wouldn't play at all. (There was a pop-up message saying it was an unrecognized format.)

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The manual or description nowhere says that this player can play HD video files. It do has HDMI output, and can output a 720p picture, but it is only for player menu and image display. Video playback is purely SD (1024x576 is not a HD, it's just native 16:9 SD).

I've tried various video formats, here's the results:

DIVX AVI (DIVX3-4-5-6) All ok.

ISO MPEG2 (720x576) ok.

SVCD (544x576, 480x576) partially ok, while playback is smooth and in sync with audio, image gets distorted at regular intervals of time (approx once per 2 seconds).

RealMedia I had some old, QCIF resolution files, thrown them in, plays them OK. Have no idea, how it will handle larger resolution files.

Quicktime (.mov), both small resolution files, and higher resolution ones (640x480x30fps) were played nicely.

While this unit plays standalone .vob files finely, it does not supports DVD menu, navigation or chapters.

The only one drawback I've noticed is oversaturated colors at HDMI output (haven't tried other ones). I have to reduce saturation on my TV from 50 to 30, when using this player, to make colors look normal.

Another con in movies with AC3 audio, audio level is too low, and have to crank up it to max.

Another con #2 while this device recognises flash drives and hard drives easilly, it does not recognises external DVD-ROM.

Overall, this is nice product, and for $20 price tag, this will be the quite reasonable purchase.

UPDATE: Found a serious flaw with this device. Contacted avermedia support, but no answer for 2 weeks so far.

When playing .VOB files, which have audio track with LPCM audio in it (most musical videos and concert recordings have LPCM audio), video and audio playback speed increases, hissing and chopping sound is heard, and video and audio came out of sync.

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Pros: Small; NTFS for USB hard drives (meh); Remote; Wide range of outputs (will go from my HDTV to CRT in kids room to LCD in mini van).

Cons: No internal storage (meh); No exFAT (Biggie: no support for