Digital Technology for Digital Living.
August 26, 2004
TViX Media Player.
DVico, a Korean digital video and multimedia storage vendor, has released a home entertainment PC known as the TViX to the Australian market. The device has Component, Composite, S-video, Scart, and Optical Audio specifically so you can connect it to your home entertainment center. It’ll play DiVX, AVI, MPEG1, MPEG2, MP3, WMA, and Ogg Vobis. It has recently added the ability to rip a DVD so you an play it later. However, it seems to lack a network connection and a tuner for recording TV. Seems like a no-brainer adding these features if you’re serious about making it in the market.
The TViX is available through Lako Pacific resellers, who’s list you can find here. Smart House has it listed as having a RRP of $AU449.
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I took delivery of my TViX yesteday, and with a quick firmware update and the addition of a 200Gb drive all is good.
The drive installs in under 30 seconds (no joke), even my father who is a big a luddite as you could find would be able to do it.
DVD quality is fantastic, and I’ve yet to find a video/audio format that this unit won’t play.
The remote control is one of the better ones out there. The buttons are nice and firm and register well, unlike those of my previous DVD/Divx player.
The case is nice and solid, and while I wouldn’t like to drop it, would probably be able to survive and small falls or tip-overs.
My unit came with 1.10 firmware which I easily upgraded to the 1.4 version.
You just unzip a couple of files to the firmware folder on the hard drive, hook the device up to your TV and turn on while holding the menu button. Easy Peasy!
I’m going to see how it looks via component video on my NEC projector, so far if the quality on my 80cm TV (via composite video) is anything to go by the component video will be stunning.
Its a little overpriced, but there doesn’t seem to be anything else on the market that comes close to the ease of use and file format support of the TViX (its main rival only handles fat32 drives and no Ogg audio support).
The little cooling fan is my only gripe, being so small I can see it becomming noisy over time, while a larger one might not.
The RRP here in australia is A$399 but I got mine for A$50 less including express/insured postage.
I’m thinking of getting another one for a wedding present for 2 friends of mine who are getting married in Nov and who are both gadget junkies :)