Published on November 7th,2005 at 7:25 AM
By daimaou
By daimaou
Multimedia JukeBox H35
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Fans of video players that can be hooked up to your PC’s, you’ll be happy to know that there is a new player on the market. BETANEWS in Korea has a little review of the H35. Everything is in Korean (of course), but here are some pictures we found on their site (just a small selection, there are plenty more) and the specifications of this beast.
Video:
DivX 3.x/4.x/5.x, XViD, AVI, DAT, VOB, MP43, MPEG1, MPEG2, DIV3, DIV4
Audio:
MP3, WMA, Ogg, AC3
Chipset:
EM8511
Dimensions:
180×57x144mm
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The unit is actually made by Alltech as the MG-35 It then gets rebranded all over the place – I bought mine as a “Freecom Network Media Player” There are a few physical differences regards the design of buttons etc. but I’m 99% sure the underlying hardware is the same.
You can use it with a 3.5″ HD and/or ethernet. I stuck a HD in it but it was too loud for my tastes, and anyway all of our media is on a 2TB server in our Data Bunker …
The unit is pretty similar GUI and media capabilities wise to the 2.5″ HD (with no ethernet but USB2) MG-25, which was also discussed on this site. Its media coverage is *very* good with just the lack of GMC and QPEL to occasionally trip you up. There are also occasionally some AVIs that have bad lip sync, but these are mainly ones encoded a few years ago. But it’s a shame when you have to resort to playing stuff on a PC.
Other things to note -
1) No SCART output. You can use a converter but won’t get the pin-8 signal. I was feeding into a device that ignored its SCART until it saw this signal …
2) The component out can’t do RGB! The menu entries are greyed out.
Ian
You can use it with a 3.5″ HD and/or ethernet. I stuck a HD in it but it was too loud for my tastes, and anyway all of our media is on a 2TB server in our Data Bunker …
The unit is pretty similar GUI and media capabilities wise to the 2.5″ HD (with no ethernet but USB2) MG-25, which was also discussed on this site. Its media coverage is *very* good with just the lack of GMC and QPEL to occasionally trip you up. There are also occasionally some AVIs that have bad lip sync, but these are mainly ones encoded a few years ago. But it’s a shame when you have to resort to playing stuff on a PC.
Other things to note -
1) No SCART output. You can use a converter but won’t get the pin-8 signal. I was feeding into a device that ignored its SCART until it saw this signal …
2) The component out can’t do RGB! The menu entries are greyed out.
Ian
Thank you for the info !
[quote:b8a7351483]The unit is actually made by Alltech as the MG-35 It then gets rebranded all over the place – I bought mine as a “Freecom Network Media Player” There are a few physical differences regards the design of buttons etc. but I’m 99% sure the underlying hardware is the same
I think it is actually from EFM rebranded Alltech (if what you say is true). Small companies like this from US and Europe buy from other companies to resell in their markets and rename in their own brands.
[quote:e89bfeb385]http://forum.akihabaranews.com/posting.php?mode=reply&t=5849&sid=d785ec9e053c4278964505f1e78ae622
Hard to tell. But Altech (sorry, bad spelling before) are Korean and have always been quite rapid with firmware updates. They also told me to buy from Freecom when I mailed them about the MG-35.
Here is their site.
<http://www.mediagate.co.kr/english/prod_mg25.htm>
BTW, I used a Smart Scart switch from BlueDelta in the UK (sometimes rebadged as a labgear I think!) and this has one socket that can detect a signal on the scart rather than requiring pin-8. It also then generates a pin-8 signal on the output scart. Nice!
Ian
Hi,
i just found this thread. I have a question that the Freecom helpdesk could not answer. I understand this player does not need any (streaming media) server software on the server where the media files are. It works with a shared disk or partition on a Windows machine. However, I have a small linux server, the Linksys NSLU2 (see http://www1.linksys.com/international/product.asp?coid=28&ipid=553 ) with an USB disk. The NSLU2 is actually a linux server that only runs a samba server. My question is if the Freecom Network media player will play media files on this NSLU2 server? Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Since I got no real answer if this player would play files on a linux (samba) file server, I negotiated that i could return it with the dealer and bought one! It´s the Freecom branded unit.
I found out that after fiddling with the users/permissions on my NSLU2, it´s possible to play the files. You have to permit the Guest user, make the machine redirect unkown users to this guest user, and place guest in the access list of the share where the media files are.
It works fine, though I think the NSLU is sometimes a little too slow. Also not all MPG files will be played, same with some AVI´s. I am testing when it works and when it doesn´t. This concerns only my own media files made with i.e. Magix Photo and Video on DVD, and Pinnacle/Premiere. DVD files (copied to HD) play OK.
Sorry stupid question, but I have difficulty to understand, this product is just a standalone player not Ethernet port… and Since I never see a Freecom Box, how does this is relevant to the news ? I m sure that what you say is interesting but I miss the point… please guide me
A correction to my earlier message – I’m now told that this unit *can* output RGB. In fact, it outputs RGB all the time unless you enable one of the component modes. It was the grey menus that confused me.
I’m not told (by the guy at airlinktek) that I should be getting RGB on the 3xphono and the sync via the composite connector (it’s really CVBS rather than just sync, but TVs are happy with this)
I’ll build a lead to go from rgb+cvbs+audio to scart over the next few days and give it a test.
BTW Airlinktek seems to be who makes it – they abbreviate this to AL Tech.
Regards
Ian
Ahem,
see what you mean. My box is quite like the one you described… but also has an ethernet port. In my quest for info about this box I overlooked this difference between mine and the one described here.
The Freecom is unique in comparison to the other media players, because it doesn´t need any (server) software on the computer where the media files are. You can put a Harddrive in (not included), like i see on the photo’s of the Altech. With a harddrive you can also put media files on the box itself (via USB) and take it with you.