TViX M-6500A Hi-Jack With updated hardware, a refreshed interface and numerous changes made to the core of the software and options, the new TVIX M-6500A should provide an experience never seen before on TViX players. Even though rated as the best, competition is becoming harder to beat and price levels have a bigger influence on media players than ever before…How will the TViX M6500A cope against our expectations and will it need some more attention? MPC Club Europe www.mpcclub.
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Introduction on TViX M-6500A Let‟s start of this review with crushing some dreams, the TViX M-6500A will not be the “perfect” answer for all consumers and not the “perfect” solution for all your media needs. It offers the basics and negates the advanced. The scene is still partially a “rush” to the market affair, with the inevitable consequences of constant firmware updates being necessary.
Cooling is done by an internal fan as with the 4100 series, it is small and… “not noiseless” but options are provided to set the fan speed to your preferred levels. The fan is more silent than on the previous series though in my humble (bad trained ear kind of way) opinion. The Comparison. Many will compare the unit to the previous 4100/5100 models. But the fact is the units are a lot different under the hood.
it is important to keep the right time for the unit‟s scheduler functions if used in combination with the T430 DVB-T tuner. New again is the ability to select subtitle colors. More options are available like shutting down the display, select the remote controller and so on… Network Network is a crucial part of the M-6500A as it allows for playback of streamed media along with the optional internal hard drive and external USB storage.
and PC. This offers options to arrange your environment in any way you like. Selection for the media you want to play starts at the opening screen where you are presented with the five possible options if you have the T430 tuner on board and only four if you don‟t. You can select Video, Audio and Photo for playback while HDTV takes you to the tuner section (recording / viewing) and finally the setup we just covered above is the last selectable option.
DVD playback Both ISO and VIDEO_TS can be used to turn the TViX into a DVD jukebox by placing backups of your original DVD‟s on a network share or on the internal hard drive. Playing commercial disks directly can be achieved with a few sleek tricks. One bug bare is with playback of Video_TS, we would prefer the TViX loading the video as soon as we select the main folder containing a Video_TS file structure instead of loading the movie selecting the VIDEO_TS folder itself.
SMB vs. NFS performance Something has happened. We have noticed great improvement with SMB shares. Utilizing SMB, playback of ISO DVD and a good majority of HD content performed sufficiently meaning there have been some decent changes to the SMB performance of the media players. Not a single glitch is found in either SMB or NFS using over 100 samples of DVD and HD files. However, when using the NetShare application we noticed deteriorated playback of VIDEO_TS (IFO) movies.
Video playback As always, tests „en mass‟ are the best source to judge on HD playback as there are way too many possibilities to play with and test. Sure thing is that DViCo TViX M-6500A is the fastest in loading HD content seen to date and usage of trick play options act instantaneously and fast. What are missing to date are embedded subtitles which we would have expected being available. After all, it has been something DViCo has been looking for in the older players as well for quite some time now.
Subtitle playback DViCo have not resolved the issue with embedded subtitle support which we would have expected to be available upon release of the M6500a. After all, it has been something DViCo have been working on with the older players for quite some time now. Instead, you get external subtitle support which adequately provides a solution for the missing embedded subtitles but is still not a remedy for the problem.
Music Playback A lot of us had expectations of serious improvements in browsing audio files and at the least the ability for album art with music files but that is not available yet. DViCo have stated that it will be checked for future firmware updates but this does not ensure it will ever come so we enlist it as a missing enhancement expected on the players with the newest chips.
We also miss a method to jump thru pages like „SKIP‟ should load the next page instead of the next song as pressing SKIP or pressing arrow down do the same thing making it useless being assigned twice at the cost of a function like browsing pages. Errors that show the underlying finesse of DViCo coding in music playback promptly replies „Subtitles None‟ on the load of music files. The absolute basics like repeat track and repeat all are available as is shuffle On/Off toggle.
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Pros - Great performance video up to H.
