Cirago 500 GB Multimedia Center 1000 Series (Black)

by cirago

Product Details

• Product Dimensions: 8 x 2.2 x 7 inches ; 5.5 pounds
• Shipping Weight: 6 pounds
• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B0028Y4Q6A
• California residents: Click here for Proposition 65 warning.
• Item model number: CMC1050
• Average Customer Review: 1.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #105,561 in Electronics (See Top 100 in Electronics)

Product Description

Capacity: 500 GB

The Cirago Multimedia Center delivers a comprehensive multimedia experience in an amazingly small device. Play videos in a variety of formats, images and digital music from the built-in storage, network-connected PCs, attached USB devices and memory cards. Record video from any device that can output to AV; recordings can be scheduled and time-shifted. All functionality can be easily accessed from an intuitive menu selected with the included remote control.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

9 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Cirago CMC 1000 - Stay AWAY, September 17, 2009

By 

Felix Rokhvarger (California) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Cirago 1 TB Multimedia Center CMC1100 (Black) (Personal Computers)

If you looking for solution to view your digital photos, video, music and be able to have DVR capability with no monthly fees - Cirago could be an affordable device that could do this for you if it would not be a Junk.

The Bad:
1. Customer supports none existent.
2. Week remote control, operating distance is too short. Universal control improves the distance, but a problem is within Cirago unit itself.
3. Slow operating system and questionable firmware makes this unit worst on the market.
4. In the process of files and folders selection jumps through several lines, in most cases does not accepts the remote commands from a first attempt or responds with long delay.
5. On power on, system intermittently does not find Network drive, ether on wired or wireless Network, and restart is required several times to make the system find the drive.
6. On power on, system intermittently does not produce the sound output and restart is required several times to make the system work.
7. Internal Hard Drive recording capability only for FAT32 system only.
8. LAN hardware is limited to 10/100.

The good:
1. Plays all video formats I tried so far.
2. Plays all audio formats I tried so far.
3. Records live TV and any Audio-Video source connected to the unit.
4. Pauses live TV up to 30 Minutes.
5. Picture quality is good.

My recommendation is to stay away from this product, instead purchase WD TV Live as a media player.
Unfortunately I was not able to find decent combination of DVR and Media Player as of today.

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars STAY AWAY!, January 3, 2010

By 

D. L. Prescott (ELK GROVE, CA, US) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Cirago 500 GB Multimedia Center 1000 Series (Black) (Electronics)

I got it very quickly, it's nothin bad on amazon's end but on the cirago end, its big and bulky, the face was loose, felt like it was going to fall off,
So i power this thing up for the first time, im thinking coo! Then I hook it up to my computer and try to transfer files and it says drive not recognized on WinXP Pro, Then it shut down on me, that was the end of the story, its goin back now. I would stay away from this.

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Not sure if it's worth it, November 12, 2009

By 

adman - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Cirago 1 TB Multimedia Center CMC1100 (Black) (Personal Computers)

Isn't as easy to use as described as a DVR or to record shows on the tv. Still haven't figured out how to label shows with the name of the tv show so have to go thru them to find the right one. Some of the controls are a little confusing to figure out because the directions aren't the greatest. Was going to return this but it took 2 weeks to get here and then after trying to figure it out it had been several days over the 30 days from date of order. We'll see how it does as an actual external harddrive but we ordered it for the DVR capabilities and it isn't worth the price to me. Slowly figuring it out so maybe my mind will change when we get it all figured out.

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