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At first glance, the white box of the Modix player looks like a normal external hard drive case. On the front is a large display and lots of function buttons, while the A/V and USB ports can be found on the back, where you can also attach an external power supply. Once you turn on the device, a menu structure will appear on the hard-to-read display. You can navigate either with the remote control or using the many buttons on the front.
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Test format / Codec | THEbox |
AC-3 | yes |
3ivx D4 | no |
Canopus Soft DVSD | no |
DAT CD-Video | yes |
DivX 3.11 | yes |
DivX 3.20 | yes |
DivX 4.1 | yes |
DivX 5.03 | yes |
DivX 5.2 | yes |
DivX 6 (.divx) | yes |
DivX 6 (.avi) | yes |
DivX 6 with menus | yes ** |
DivX 2-PASS | yes |
DVD Video (.vob) | yes |
DVD with menus | no |
Leadtools 1.0 | no |
Matroska | no |
Morgan M-JPEG 3.0 | no |
Motion JPEG | yes |
MP3 Fraunhofer | yes |
MP3 Lame | yes |
MP3 VBR | yes |
MP3 CBR | yes |
MPEG-1 | yes |
MPEG-2 | yes |
MS Media Player 9 | no |
MS MPEG4 V1 | no |
MS MPEG4 V2 | yes |
MS MPEG4 V3 | yes |
On2 VP3 V3.2 | No |
OGG | no |
PCM Audio | yes |
Sigma Realmagic | yes |
SVCD (MPEG-2) | yes |
VOB (MPEG-2) | yes |
VCD (MPEG-1) | yes |
WMA | yes |
XviD MPEG3 V2.1 | yes |
XviD + AC3 | yes |
* video hangs, ** no DivX menu |
THEbox HP-25OTG |
Weighting | Factor | Score |
20% | Features | 80% |
40% | Ergonomics | 65% |
5% | Price | 85% |
10% | Design | 95% |
25% | Service | 50% |
Overall score | 68% |
While the player's preference list contains all the absolutely critical functions, it dispenses completely with any instructions or explanations. Users are left scratching their heads over mysterious acronyms and jargon in both English and Chinese. The manual also lacks clear answers regarding what kinds of effects a modification might produce.
Selecting the TV standard
Two language versions are available
The on-screen text can be deactivated
Resetting the screen
File sorting
(De-)activating the screensaver
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To get to the setup menu you have to push a button on the remote control. You'll search in vain for many menu options to configure, though. The menus are superfluously large, making it seem as if you have a lot of options to set, but you really don't.
Slideshow setting options
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The player can be unpacked and hooked up in a jiffy. Besides plugging in the small power supply, all you have to do is connect the box to a TV. The unit only functions without the PSU when it's plugged into a USB port on a computer, where it functions just as an external file storage device. The HP-25OTG likewise requires an electrical socket somewhere within a cable's reach of the power supply to work on the road.
A piece of protective plastic inside the remote prevents the battery from running down before purchase, and is easy to remove. Once you've done so, the remote control is good to go. The LED starts blinking when you turn the power switch on; the unit boots within seconds, and then a very lean main menu appears on the screen. Its four buttons take you to the respective submenus. Note that with this player, "File" describes a kind of directory structure in which you can navigate to directly select the individual files you want.
Nine images are viewable in the preview
Long names are a good thing for MP3 files
The sound equalizer during MP3 playback
Located video files are played back in a preview window under the file menu
Minimalist display for video and audio files
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The actual hardware is mounted inside the unit with four tiny screws. A small board is visible containing the 2.5" hard drive; all other components, including the decoder chip and flash memory, are located next to the drive. The back of the board is nearly devoid of components, as the player doesn't need much hardware for its decoding work.
Compact board with pre-mounted 2.5" drive
The back of the player board
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The unit that houses the hard drive comes in a small cardboard box containing all the important accessories. The only thing missing in the standard set is a SCART adapter, which you need, however, for most TV sets you use one without a cinch input. If you opted to buy the HP-25OTG version without hard drive, you'll have to open up the unit initially to install one; the tools for doing so are included.
Compact and convenient
Where are all the buttons, you ask? There aren't any more!
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THEbox HP-25OTG: Portable Hard Drive With A/V Support
This silver aluminum box is extremely compact, and not only acts as a digital storage device for video and audio files, but is also the ideal playback companion for when you're on the go. While the remote control unit is fiddly-looking, it has a nice feel in your hand. To keep it tiny, the HP-25OTG has no display of its own and no control knobs save for an "on the go" (OTG) button, one press of which copies data from an external USB device to the built-in hard drive. This is a neat function if you want to quickly save some photos from your digital camera but don't have a laptop handy. The HP-25OTG's hard drive thus serves as an image tank of sorts. Using the included RCA A/V cable, you can play back multimedia content stored on the device directly on any normal television set. Unfortunately, there is no delete function, meaning you can only get rid of your stored files in conjunction with a PC.
The specs as listed on the package
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Introduction
DVD players can be found in almost every living room today, having long ago replaced VHS VCRs. Many of these players can even play back files encoded in DivX and MP3. But there's a big catch to using these formats, too: you have to squeeze the files onto a blank DVD so that you can stick them in the standalone player. And that in turn means that you have to have your own DVD burner and lots of blank DVDs.
One new alternative is the use of hard disk drive (HDD) players that are based on a 2.5" or 3.5" IDE (ATA) hard drive. These video players dispense completely with optical media; the files are transferred via USB 2.0 to the installed hard drive and played from it directly. The copy process takes about a minute per gigabyte; the files are then played back directly from the disk of the HDD player with the same ease as using DVD players, and of course, with the convenience of a remote control.
HDD players support a wide range of video and audio compression methods. Among the best-known are DivX, xVid and MP3. Unlike MPEG-2 (DVD), DivX-coded files are considerably smaller and thus take up less room. Thanks to constantly improving video code compression algorithms, DivX and the others are more than a match for their DVD counterparts. The latest functions of the DivX codec now even support menus and chapter selection, similar to what we're used to with DVDs. Unfortunately these menus are (still) not supported by the players. Thus, if you want to continue to use this convenience, you will have to switch to the DVD structure. The video_TS directory familiar to us from the DVD medium is accepted by HDD players. All functions such as chapters, subtitles, alternative languages or camera angles can be used just as with a standalone DVD player. It is only a matter of time until the boxes support these DivX codex functions, probably via a firmware update.
Players will refuse to play protected MP3 files downloaded from the Internet, such as I-Tunes files. The same goes for video download portals that offer DVD or AVI files. Files protected with digital rights management (DRM) always need online access, which HDD players don't have. Only after you get a release code can the DRM file be played back, for example on Microsoft Media Player. This received code, however, only applies to that one computer and cannot be transferred to the HDD player or any other computer.
Our three test candidates have gigantic amounts of storage. With a 500 GB hard drive, you could store roughly 10,000 minutes of video in MPEG-2. With DivX-compressed video files, that would in theory mean 60,000 minutes or almost 1,000 hours of video! Sounds great, doesn't it? And you don't have to cut any corners on quality. In the case of MP3 music files, that storage would amount to a guaranteed 3 months of uninterrupted playback!
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