There are very many Video formats available to combat the format war there amny manufactures started manufacturing the multi media product.Onc such product is Emtec movie cube.
As the format war from HD DVD system vs the Blue ray DVD system and unsure about the f
uture of the optical drive system. Definitely internet going to have a major role with the content based delivery system as well as the streaming media services like FLV formats.
Emcube is one such multi media device which can play e any number of vide format that is thrown on to them..
The recording feature set up for the TV and set top boxes with the time shifted recording control also HD DVD will be recorded in a high Quality.
The recorder has an infrared remote and intuitive virtual key pad to control for watching copy, rename and editing in an organized fashion.
Physically the brushed steel case measures 203x164x53mm (WxHxD) and so is small enough to be unobtrusive in the living room and smaller than most media PCs. The solid construction comes in at 1.5Kg. Finally you have a remote control to drive the system.
At heart what you have in the Movie Cube is an external USB hard-drive - with some added features that justify the multi-media label and price tag. Those extra features being :
- · Video in to record external content onto the hard-drive
- · Video out so you play both video and slide-show content back to an external TV
- · Component video out
- · Two external USB host connections by which you can attach two external storage devices - additional hard disks or flash-based drives such as MP3 players
- · COAX or Optical digital audio out
- · A 10/100 Ethernet port allowing wired connectivity to your home network
- · To the front there is a memory card reader supporting SD, MMC and Memory Stick cards
Housed within the unit you have a choice of hard-disk size from 160G bytes through to 500G bytes
Attaching the device to a network allows it to attach to other shared network drives and browse for media files. The user interface for this is pretty unfriendly - providing a file-system navigation presenting 'up a directory' as '..' (!). This basically exposes the raw operating file system rather than trying to be user friendly.
If you have a specific server, an
d you know what an IP address is, and you've set up your server with a static address then you can set up a short-cut to it - but only to the server - not to the specific media directory. This function isn't going to be a lot of use to many people and will totally mystify most.
The whole software experience suggests to be a hardware company wanting to add value (no margin in hard disks these days), don't understand software or software user interfaces and didn't want to invest properly in the product by building a software team.
Video recording
The built in video recorder can be used in much the same way an old VHS system could be used. Either record now, or set a timer. It also offers a version of 'pause live TV'. Once you've recorded your programmes you can play them back to a TV, or to an external DVD or other recorder.
Because there is no TV tuner within the product you're reliant on your external systems. This means you don't benefit from any Electronic Programme Guide (EPG) to correctly select channel and time. In fact it's worse than the VHS days where the VHS recorder had it's own tuner. To record something from TV at a specific time you have to set up the Movie Cube and remember to leave your TV on and tuned to the right channel.
Require such handy device to manage the format war and can displace our existing DVD player. This multi media player is not popular in the Indian markets yet.
Cost Emtec movie cube 500GB cost USD319 and 250GB cost USD260.
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