INOi Media HardDrive MH720-00320 Review

INOi MH720 detail information

Posted by	Doug Schwantes
Posted on	25/10/07 14:16
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Manufacturer	INOi
Product	INOi MH720
Description	INOi Media HardDrive MH720

Conclusion

Introduction

What’s inside the box?

Software and drive installation

Copying and playing media files

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Conclusion

Positive:

Ease of use

Installation for both TV and computer is plug and play

Plays most popular audio, video and picture file formats

On-screen display is easy to navigate

Very quiet operation

Runs cool

Plays videos with no skipping or stuttering

Wide range of subtitle support

Ability to easily password protect folders

Portable so you can use it on any TV at home or away

Video, Audio and Photo quality are superb

Supports both NTSC and PAL file formats

Ability to use FAT32 or NTFS file system

Negative:

Must use the remote to control the device

Conclusion:

To sum it all up, this is what we would say: "The INOi Media HardDrive is a fantastic media storage device; it allows you to play most Video, Audio and Photo formats directly on your television. With it’s cool and quiet running 320GB hard drive this snappy little unit lets you not only store plenty of media but with it’s compact size it is small enough to take along wherever you travel”

The suggested retail price is US$169.99 (Oct 2007).

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Thanks to:

INOi USA – For providing the drive used in this review.

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Posted by neil20009 on Friday 14 December 2007 01:19

This is pretty awesome. I bought the 750GB version and am ripping all of my DVDs on to it. I've put 9+GB of music and thousands of photos. The all play back very well and the adaptation to 720P works well for video and photos.

Complaints:

The UI is very simple which is nice for handling a few things but it's tedious with hundreds and thousands. I had to arrange things in an expanded multlevel directory structure to compensate. I'm sure there's a linux kernal in there so they should improve it or let the hackers have at it!

It will hang on a file that it can't decode. So far everytime I've found that the original file was corrupted.

It also seems to run a bit hot too.

Conclusion: It's great. I've chucked the Media PC from the living room and I'm going to get another one of these for the bedroom!

Neil

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