Micca Slim Portable HDD Digital Media Player [Slim]
$49.95
by JD Sutphin
Date Added: Sunday 30 May, 2010
This is a fantastic product! Yes it is a high quality media player, but it is also a sturdy external hard drive. It is very easy to install an internal drive in the unit. The transfer speeds are equivalent to the other portable external HDDs that I own, and the size of the unit is not much bigger that most portable 2.5" drives on the market (it easily fits in the carrying case that I bought for one of my other portable HDDs). As a media player, the picture quality on a regular TV is DVD quality (or better). I haven't had a chance to use it with a HDTV, but I'm pretty certain that the 720p output will be great as well. One very useful function is the copy feature. Now when I'm away from home, I can dump my camera's SD card onto the hard drive; or I can copy the movie from my buddy's USB stick without needing a PC. Now that's handy!! Personally, I like the "goto" button on the remote as it allows easy seeking of a video file. This feature is not present on many other media players that I've seen. Do you have video files that aren't on the "supported file types" list? Don't let that keep you away. The Micca Video Recode Tutorial (see documentation) will guide even the newest user through the process of converting unsupported video files for use on the Micca Slim (eg: convert MKV to MP4 with no loss of quality). You don't even have to pay for the software! All in all, this is a great value for my economics. I recommend this for anyone that doesn't absolutely have to have 1080p quality or specific file support (for that you can expect to pay twice or more the price of this unit...probably without internal storage, too). Thanks to Micca for a great product at a good price!!
[5 of 5 Stars!]
