Micro Media Player -£29.99 Ebuyer DOTD

chilli_pepper

With the Cyclone Micro Player Adaptor you can just plug and play with USB storage devices and play your favorite media files directly to a TV via HDMI or composite port. The player adaptor also has a card reader which supports SD/MS/MMC and SDHC cards.
Features

* Plug and Play support for USB storage and MMC/SD/MS/SDHC device
* Upscale playback of standard media files to 1080p resolution.
* Fast forward, rewind, zoom, pause, and repeat functions.
* USB support for Enclosures, Card readers and Flash drives.
* USB storage file system supports FAT32/NTFS.
* Card memory storage file system supports FAT/FAT32.
* Upscale resolution to 480p/576p, 720p, 1080i, 1080p via HDMI interface.
* Standard video output 480i/576i via composite interface
* Video format support: MPEG1/2/4(MPG, VOB, AVI), DivX(avi), XviD(avi), resolution up to 720 x 480 30fps / 720 x 576 25fps.
* Photo format support: JPEG, GIF and BMP.
* Audio format support: MP3, WMA and OGG.
* Other format support: ISO (image format).

Link here

Found it cheaper here :

£24.99 on Amazon
£21.66 from svp.co.uk

Looks a handy little thing! Checked eBay and you can get it including shipping from a top rated seller for less!

coldfire1x

Looks interesting. Anyone has one of these?

majiktripp

Ordered from an eBay seller, thanks for the heads up , was looking for something like this to match new HD TV! Cheers!

gramlab

Ordered something similar for around the same price from pixmania a while back. Very portable and plays almost everything.

And a big plus (compared to a combined media player and hard drive I had before) is that if it goes wrong you are not much out of pocket and dont have to buy a new hard drive.

webels

User feedback here - mixed reviews, but great price for what you get.

http://www.avforums.com/forums/streamers-network-media-players/1014922-sumvision-cyclone-micro-player-adapter.html

The_Conductor

Looks like the Western Digital Media Player- has a baby brother!

pauly3

Damn this site anyhow, more stuff to buy!

Don't buy the £24.99 one on Amazon.co.uk, they are charging £14 for shipping to Ireland! Go for the £22.95 option, only £5.00 shipping to Ireland, bringing total to £27.95 or about €31.00.

Link: http://www.amazon.co.uk/Sumvision-Cyclone-Micro-Upscaling-Player/dp/B002BZCE2Y

There is an interesting YouTube video on it here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zz4WLSOyAB0

This device would be very handy for bringing to your mate's house with your movies on a USB key, or microSDHC card reader like this:

Link: http://www.dealextreme.com/details.dx/sku.6108

or this: http://www.dealextreme.com/details.dx/sku.25557

I don't use my DVD player anymore. Since I got the WDTV a few months back, thanks to Bargain Alerts again, I just play my movies from the above key with an 8GB microSDHC card in it. I backup my DVDs and Blu-Ray discs to my hard drive (they compress nicely to 1GB for DVDs and 2-4GB for Blu-Rays) and whichever movie I choose to watch I just copy it across to the key as needed.

The days of optical discs are very numbered, including Blu-Ray methinks

beecee

Quick and probably stupid question...

Can you connect this directly to a laptop (via USB) to play movies/music etc?

The_Conductor

beecee wrote: »

Quick and probably stupid question...

Can you connect this directly to a laptop (via USB) to play movies/music etc?

No.
It outputs a video signal- unless your laptop is capable of accepting a video input, it wouldn't work.

Why bother in any case- all this does is decode video files to a raw video feed- your laptop will do this in any event. Simply plug the USB key you propose to use with this device into a USB port on your laptop- and off you go......?

Bill-e

beecee wrote: »

Quick and probably stupid question...

Can you connect this directly to a laptop (via USB) to play movies/music etc?

You can play ur movies and music on ur laptop with out this device. this device is for palying you dowmnloaded movies and stuff on a TV

DavyD_83

Hi, possibly a stupid question again. But would this work with larger hard drives (1TB or 320GB) as well as with memory sticks and the like?

Currently using my laptop with hard drive to play through the TV, but would be handier if I could cut out the need for the laptop.

The_Conductor

DavyD_83 wrote: »

Hi, possibly a stupid question again. But would this work with larger hard drives (1TB or 320GB) as well as with memory sticks and the like?

Currently using my laptop with hard drive to play through the TV, but would be handier if I could cut out the need for the laptop.

I've a 500Gb external harddrive working on a product that uses the same chipset as this.

Its not a good idea to use a massive hard-drive- the menu system gets slugish and it takes forever to navigate through lists of folders and files. Its far better to use a small memory stick- with few files on it (in addition- this will hostpower a memory stick- whereas anything larger- including some of the small hard-drives that are allegedly hostpowered, in practice need additional power when being used on a device such as this).

dazzday

webels wrote: »

User feedback here - mixed reviews, but great price for what you get.

http://www.avforums.com/forums/streamers-network-media-players/1014922-sumvision-cyclone-micro-player-adapter.html

Just something i saw there:

"just so you know this is basically the sumvision Phoenix DVD Player (standard DIVX/DVD Player) with HDMI output - USB/SD input Just without the Optical drive "

Looking into getting the folks a new dvd player as it is, and the ability to play of an external HDD would be a great bonus. And at £30, cant go wrong.
Any thoughts on that? Or are there any better alternatives out there?

The_Conductor

dazzday wrote: »

Just something i saw there:

"just so you know this is basically the sumvision Phoenix DVD Player (standard DIVX/DVD Player) with HDMI output - USB/SD input Just without the Optical drive "

Looking into getting the folks a new dvd player as it is, and the ability to play of an external HDD would be a great bonus. And at £30, cant go wrong.
Any thoughts on that? Or are there any better alternatives out there?

Playback seems very hit and miss from the feedback on the AVforums thread. The WesternDigital player handles MKV and other file types fine.

If you were buying your folk a new DVD player- Philips have several reasonably priced ones- with USB ports, that play the whole gamut of file types.......

From reading the AVForums thread- I'd be inclined to stay clear of this device- but that said, I have the Hisense one here (along with the Western Digital) and it plays most things I throw at it.......? I dunno......

beecee

smccarrick wrote: »

No.
It outputs a video signal- unless your laptop is capable of accepting a video input, it wouldn't work.

Why bother in any case- all this does is decode video files to a raw video feed- your laptop will do this in any event. Simply plug the USB key you propose to use with this device into a USB port on your laptop- and off you go......?

Sorry... I phrased my question badly. I know I can watch stuff directly on my laptop. I currently don't have any cable (VGA to Component or whatever) for hooking my laptop up to TV. I wondered if this would be able to read my laptop's harddrive via the USB to play video off my laptop on my TV... I have a Freecom HardDrive Mediaplayer, but it doesn't work with higher res videos so I could use this for those I guess?

nxbyveromdwjpg

Good question, can this thing do that?

The_Conductor

This device will *not* read your laptop hard-drive, because it does not present itself as a 'removable device'. Spend a tenner (or whatever) and get a memory stick- and copy over in small quantities the files that you want to watch- this will then play them.

beecee

That makes sense. I suppose even if it could read it, it would be prohibitively slow!

Thanks!

gonzo1

pauly3 wrote: »

Damn this site anyhow, more stuff to buy!

Don't buy the £24.99 one on Amazon.co.uk, they are charging £14 for shipping to Ireland! Go for the £22.95 option, only £5.00 shipping to Ireland, bringing total to £27.95 or about €31.00.

Link: http://www.amazon.co.uk/Sumvision-Cyclone-Micro-Upscaling-Player/dp/B002BZCE2Y

There is an interesting YouTube video on it here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zz4WLSOyAB0

This device would be very handy for bringing to your mate's house with your movies on a USB key, or microSDHC card reader like this:

Link: http://www.dealextreme.com/details.dx/sku.6108

or this: http://www.dealextreme.com/details.dx/sku.25557

I don't use my DVD player anymore. Since I got the WDTV a few months back, thanks to Bargain Alerts again, I just play my movies from the above key with an 8GB microSDHC card in it. I backup my DVDs and Blu-Ray discs to my hard drive (they compress nicely to 1GB for DVDs and 2-4GB for Blu-Rays) and whichever movie I choose to watch I just copy it across to the key as needed.

The days of optical discs are very numbered, including Blu-Ray methinks

Anyone know of any good downloadable software for compressing DVD's or converting DVD's to DIV-x Format, etc? thanks

inforfun

gonzo1 wrote: »

Anyone know of any good downloadable software for compressing DVD's or converting DVD's to DIV-x Format, etc? thanks

This one converts to anyting from anything

zod

gonzo1 wrote: »

Anyone know of any good downloadable software for compressing DVD's or converting DVD's to DIV-x Format, etc? thanks

http://www.pocketdivxencoder.net/EN_index.htm

Black_Knight

Where are ye seeing it on ebay for cheaper? All I can see are China ones and UK ones which want £18 postage!

Black_Knight

Black_Knight wrote: »

Where are ye seeing it on ebay for cheaper? All I can see are China ones and UK ones which want £18 postage!

It was there from a top rated seller but seems to be gone now

beecee

Same here... the china one has free shipping and works out about €25... not sure if I'd trust it though.

As for Amazon, comes out at €40+ or €52+ with shipping depending which seller.

and eBuyer and SVP don't ship outside of UK....

BAH!?! Or am I missing something?

Bawnmore

How reliable will China seller be? Has anyone experience with this? Feedback is very good for seller so i presume not a huge chance of a copied product being sent!

chilli_pepper

beecee wrote: »

Same here... the china one has free shipping and works out about €25... not sure if I'd trust it though.

As for Amazon, comes out at €40+ or €52+ with shipping depending which seller.

and eBuyer and SVP don't ship outside of UK....

BAH!?! Or am I missing something?

Bigpockets.co.uk also have them , I ordered mine on Sunday and it was delivered yesterday. Pretty neat device - Very happy with it. SVP definitely ship here as do ebuyer (you need to use a postal code
of REP123 and either google checkout or Paypal)

Black_Knight

Big pockets arnt cheap for postage! £14

Found this seller on ebay for £23 and £9 postage. The best ive seen so far.... yes?

majiktripp

Savage piece of kit, g/f watching a downloaded Grey's Anatomy now on it on the new 32" tv, works a treat! Free's the laptop up for me too I bought mine from a UK eBay seller, was selling for 28.95 sterling and 3.95 p&p but he has since raised his price considerably pricing himself out of the running! I do highly recommend the unit though so far!

majiktripp

majiktripp wrote: »

Savage piece of kit, g/f watching a downloaded Grey's Anatomy now on it on the new 32" tv, works a treat! Free's the laptop up for me too I bought mine from a UK eBay seller, was selling for 28.95 sterling and 3.95 p&p but he has since raised his price considerably pricing himself out of the running! I do highly recommend the unit though so far!

majiktripp you ordered it on the 25th and you have it already!!? ?!? :eek: When I order stuff from eBay UK it usually takes a week to get to me. And that was before the postal strikes I'm currently waiting on three items from the UK. But I digress. When I first checked there was a seller offering it for £28.99 including shipping. Don't know what happened to him though.

nxbyveromdwjpg

pauly3 wrote: »

Damn this site anyhow, more stuff to buy!

Don't buy the £24.99 one on Amazon.co.uk, they are charging £14 for shipping to Ireland! Go for the £22.95 option, only £5.00 shipping to Ireland, bringing total to £27.95 or about €31.00.

Link: http://www.amazon.co.uk/Sumvision-Cyclone-Micro-Upscaling-Player/dp/B002BZCE2Y

Unless im missing something, the 22.90 option (bigboxproducts or something) doesnt seem to ship to Ireland at all. The other one comes to £34 or so.

Reckon ebay is the best deal at the moment.

majiktripp

Deleted User wrote: »

majiktripp you ordered it on the 25th and you have it already!!? ?!? :eek: When I order stuff from eBay UK it usually takes a week to get to me. And that was before the postal strikes I'm currently waiting on three items from the UK. But I digress. When I first checked there was a seller offering it for £28.99 including shipping. Don't know what happened to him though.

Yup, was this item here But he's ramped up the price but definitely speedy post for sure, way faster than I was expecting, along with UK postal strikes or threat there of I was willing to wait!

cfeeneyinterior

Hi, can I jack this into a monitor? I have a spare monitor and want to play movies on it. Will this do it or can someone one recommend something else?
Cheers

nm

nm wrote: »

Unless im missing something, the 22.90 option (bigboxproducts or something) doesnt seem to ship to Ireland at all. The other one comes to £34 or so.

Reckon ebay is the best deal at the moment.

What about SVP? Can't check their postage as I don't have an account there.

Black_Knight

Got mine there last week. Like a fool forgot to check whether it supports .mkv files. It doesnt. All my HD/blue ray files are no good to me. They're all .mkv.

Tried converting to avi, which did convert after a few hours, but the quality was lost entirely. A bit pointless outputting HD if it doesnt support hd ripped files. :mad:

Basq

Might be tempted to get this as Xmas present!

Any feedback, and where's it currently cheapest?

No need for MKV thankfully.. simply DivX / XviD will do.

EDIT: Seems to be best price: http://cgi.ebay.ie/SUMVISION-CYCLONE-MICRO-UPSCALING-MEDIA-PLAYER-ADAPTER_W0QQitemZ180428872318QQcmdZViewItemQQptZUK_Collectables_HardDriveEnclosures_RL?hash=item2a02661a7e

Hmmm.. from China. Should be here in time I'd say!

chilli_pepper

basquille wrote: »

Might be tempted to get this as Xmas present!

Any feedback, and where's it currently cheapest?

No need for MKV thankfully.. simply DivX / XviD will do.

EDIT: Seems to be best price: http://cgi.ebay.ie/SUMVISION-CYCLONE-MICRO-UPSCALING-MEDIA-PLAYER-ADAPTER_W0QQitemZ180428872318QQcmdZViewItemQQptZUK_Collectables_HardDriveEnclosures_RL?hash=item2a02661a7e

Hmmm.. from China. Should be here in time I'd say!

I have mine a couple of weeks and it works great , upscales quite nicely to 1080p. As previously stated the menu system is quite basic compared to the WD Media Tank but it does the job perfectly, highly reconmended at this price

Black_Knight

Dono about ordering electronics from china. They're usually rip off stuff, but ya never know.
Ill sell ya my one for €30. Bought here for €35, used it once: http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Sumvision-Cyclone-Micro-Upscaling-Media-Player-HDMI-NEW_W0QQitemZ350267925448QQcmdZViewItemQQptZUK_Collectables_HardDriveEnclosures_RL?hash=item518d9863c8#ht_4300wt_1116

Slunk

Very tempted to get one of these. Seems to be the perfect little device. Thinkin about going with BlackKnights link, that seller in China has a few dodgey looking feedback comments regarding electronics.

Basq

Cheers BK.. but can be gotten for £25 new from SVP!

And wouldn't I look like a right scrooge handing over a second-hand Christmas present?!

Slunk

How much is shipping with SVP? Ill offer you 25 if you post BK

Edit: Just checked it £25 inc postage. Will they post to Ireland, only seems to be info about UK.

DingDong

Use the code svpatuf to get 2% off at SVP.
I order mine one from ebay it cost £22.99 including delivery. Ordered it about a week ago still waiting on delivery.

Basq

Yeah.. was gonna order it from Ebay but will probably pay the £2 more and get it from SVP.

EDIT: Actually.. SVP don't appear to ship here after all. "Flea-bay" it is!

Curvepro

Ordered one from here last week
https://www.saverstore.com/productlist.aspx?keywords=20036099

£27.77 including delivery. €31
Delivered by DPD 48 hours later. Great little bit of kit.

Slunk

Whats it like? Read some reviews on it and seems there is some issues with sound when connected via HDMI, also playing back mp3s it skips and some .avis wont play. Have you had any issues with it so far.

Anyone recommend an alternative?

chilli_pepper

Slunk wrote: »

Whats it like? Read some reviews on it and seems there is some issues with sound when connected via HDMI, also playing back mp3s it skips and some .avis wont play. Have you had any issues with it so far.

Anyone recommend an alternative?

Plays any avis I have perfectly and also upscales great via HDMI as indicated in my earlier post

Black_Knight

basquille wrote: »

Yeah.. was gonna order it from Ebay but will probably pay the £2 more and get it from SVP.

EDIT: Actually.. SVP don't appear to ship here after all. "Flea-bay" it is!

I read a few pages back, someone saying that SVP do ship to Ireland, you just have to ask or something. I cant remember the in's and out's.

uncleoswald

Anyone order one of these? Whats the verdict?

Black_Knight

My only qualm with it is that it doesnt support .mkv files. Ive yet to give it a good run for its money though.

DingDong

Mine finally arrived yesterday but I'm finding it won't play any files I tried. Well it plays them for about 5 seconds and then invalid key message pops up and it stop. Any one else having this problem?
edit A reboot seems to have solved the problem.

Tusky

Black_Knight wrote: »

My only qualm with it is that it doesnt support .mkv files. Ive yet to give it a good run for its money though.

Arent all Hd movie files MKV files ?

Think I'm gonna order one of these fellas - which is the best website to go for ?

[edit] svp.co.uk have 99p shipping on orders over 25 this weekend. So if You add something else on the site to bring it up to 25, you could have it delivered for 25.99. How much is shipping normally ?