HDMI Media Player, Black Mini 1080p Full-HD Ultra HDMI Digital Media Player for -MKV/RM- HDD USB Drives and SD Cards

This thing is EXACTLY what I needed. At first I was concerned with it only having 4gb of ram but thats more than enough because there is no bloated operating system!!! Its very snappy and the remote works great. Its just a basic media player operating system! Which is exactly what I needed. There is no blue tooth, web browser or wifi its just HDMI plug in and access files through usb or SD card. You can connect speakers through the aux port. Which is exactly what I needed for my guest bedroom. I bought a computer monitor and needed something that could play movies, tv shows via media player but could also connect external speakers. Dont plug in speaker power though the device though, you will need to plug in speakers (if needed) to wall outlet. Otherwise you will have reverb and the speakers will not work. Other than that the device is small, metal and very clean looking. I will be buying some double sided Velcro for it though because it is relatively light in weight.

This is a very handy little set top box device that lets you play downloaded media content from your phone, tablet, or PC. It will play music mp3s, it will play movie or video mp4 and mkv files. (And other formats like 3gp, etc.) It will also display your jpeg photos you take on your phone or even your premium digital camera. It will do this all on your TV and home theater receiver. (If you want hifi quality sound with your videos and music.) Only thing is, you need to know what this thing will and won't do. Firstly I will mention my complaint... This device was intended for use in UK or country using HDMI standard with 50hz. But America uses 60hz HDMI frequency. So the device defaults to 50hz for UK. So when you hook up your American TV to it. It will automatically detect it and work fine. But later if you happen to change video output either in settings or the remote by accidentally hitting one of those video output buttons, you will be left with a black screen with no way to get back even if you press HDMI button. Because it then just defaults to 50hz and not 60hz output. Now if you have this device hooked up via the red white and yellow rca cables, there will be no issue like this. But video quality will only be good as a high end vcr. But it will still look great. People that have to have the highest res images will want the HDMI hookup. I myself am not that finicky. But anyway, to resolve the issue with the black screen after changing video input (HDMI) you have to disconnect power source and reconnect to reset it and then it will redetect the TV. It is in settings a switch for on or off auto detect HDMI but does not work! So that sucks. They need to fix that. And another problem people are having is the device not playing videos. There is a strange thing about this device in which it will only play vids saved in FAT32 format on your sd card slot. It will NOT play videos saved on exfat format (SD card slot). No matter what card you use except sdhc cards. This is a complicated thing and not for the lay person. But I do have the answer. Use only 32gb or less sd cards. They are the sdhc standard and only save in FAT32. So vids saved on this size card will play fine. If you use a 64gb or higher sd card, it can be used. But you have to do the following... Buy a sd card reader. (It is a small thumb drive looking device that has an SD card slot on the side.) And insert your sdxc card in it and then the reader into the USB port of your media player. Works fine! I have used 256gb micro SD cards (in an SD card adapter) and it plays my exfat format storage just fine but only in the USB port (for the thumb drive). I don't know why it will accept exfat storage on the USB port but not the SD card slot. I learned this from a lot of trial and error. So I am giving sound advice on this I promise. But if you want to chock a bunch of movies on this micro DVR haha and have all your ripped and bootleg movies at your fingertips and discard your dvd player, this is the way to go and I love it. So I give this device 5 stars despite the flaws. All you need to do to play tons of movies worry free, is buy a nice large SanDisk Cruiser Glide thumb drive (128 or 256 gigs) and fill it with your media either with a PC or use an otg cable connected to your phone or tablet. (An otg cable is a short micro USB plug on one end and big USB standard female Jack on other end) effectively making your phone's charging port a real USB port. (Phone must have ability to move media via the charging port and some low end phones do not allow this.) Then you can move your downloaded content to a thumb drive. Hope this info helps. I just wanted to help the lay person who knows little about this alternative way of enjoying tv and music. 😎

I got this to play back home movies I had digitized at 1080p 60fps H264. With less than ten files loaded, I could get one playing after two or three crashes. It would bounce back to the home screen each time. Annoying, but at least usable. Everything looked great when it finally got going. When I got all 27 videos on the card, it wouldn't do anything but crash. I tried higher compression for lower file sizes. I tried lower resolution. It just kept crashing. I finally got it "working" by putting all of the files in three separate folders of nine files each. It still takes several crashes to get going, but it will eventually play. I don't understand what is causing this temperamental behavior beyond some unknown limit on the number of files you can have in one folder? In any case, it really shouldn't be this hard to get a device to do the one thing it is designed for. Knowing what I know now, I would recommend getting a mini PC over this. They're only $140, and they can play video much more reliably in addition to being a fully capable computer.

The Good: It's inexpensive. The quality of both the video and audio is excellent. The ability to dial in a time code and jump there is great.The Bad: It doesn't recognize DVD folders. DVDs are outdated, but many people still saved their DVDs to disk. Most important it doesn't remember where you leave off if you are in the middle of a video. It starts all videos from the beginning. Maybe not a deal breaker, but I find this really annoying.Edit: It is possible for the unit to remember where you left off. I found it in the OSD menu. This is not mentioned in the skimpy documentation. Unfortunately, if this is set to on you will always return to the point you left off. My old WDTV had a better system in which it gave the choice of whether to resume or restart.

Exactly what I wanted for RV - plays .MKV files (offline) that I ripped myself. No issues - you can select multiple audio tracks and also closed captioning. Works fine with 500GB SSD with Windows 10 folder structure. Yes it's a little spartan for features but does exactly what I needed.