DVICO - TVIX M-4100SH Multimedia Receiver USB 2.0 (without hard drive) Best Buy

great for video.... not good for music.... - 23 Mar 2008

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This is a fantastic little box.... works with a huge range of media formats, way more than an apple tv or some other box made by larger companies ever will (largely due to DRM fears most companies boxes are very much hindered in the formats they can play).

one thing to note is that I got this box to also act as a jukebox and play music from. for this its sadly really very limited in terms of functions. you cant select for the player to play from multiple albums (folders) unless you've already made a playlist file when it was plugged into a computer (via the usb link). this means that it can play a directory of music and repeat it in a loop but that's it. my idea of copying files to it sometimes and it working via my hifi, playing like a never ending jukebox sadly wont come true with this box.

Something else, especially important to note in relation to audio playing: The device is almost impossible to use without a tv screen since the lcd screen on the box is of such a low quality, only able to display 10 or so lcd calculator type characters on screen at once.


with very little changes to the firmware the box would be capable of so much more but it seems that dvico have no interest in making its audio features any better (from the emails i got back this has been confirmed). Its a shame, especially since music codec support is fantastic, and if you have a very large music collection its still worth considering, but youll probably want to make playlist files to make the box more flexible and play for longer periods without interaction via the remote required.

FYI, MediaMonkey was the best pc program i found to make playlists, when installed with a few playlist plugins I had it making playlist files from all my folders in a specific folder automatically without too much trouble.


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