Noah Company MediaGate MG-M2TVD Digital Media Player HDMI Full 1080P with DTS 2.0 Digital Audio Out (Black)

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Product Details

• Shipping Weight: 2 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Shipping: Currently, item can be shipped only within the U.S.
• ASIN: B002DUD43U
• Item model number: MG-M2TVD
• Average Customer Review: 3.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (32 customer reviews)

Product Description

From the Manufacturer

Ever wanted to relive those key family vacation recordings in the comfort of your living room? How about listen to your favorite music, while viewing through a slideshow of your latest digital photos? All of that can be now done with the new MediaGate M²TVD Media Player, Media 2 TV never made easier! Scalability, portability and flexibility, all in Full 1080P. Plug and play any external hard drive using the USB host port, or simply plug in your digital memory card and enjoy the digital life on your digital TV using the MediaGate M²TVD. Now supporting DTS 2.0 Digital Out. The best has just got better!

Technical Details Full HD 1080P Video playback via HDMI 1.3 DTS 2.0 Digital Surround Sound Support Movie, Video, Music, MP3, Photo Playback RealVideo 10 RMVB Support Connect without limits ‐ Just add more USB drives for more space SD/MMC/Memory Stick card‐reader

What’s in the Box AC/DC Adaptor, User's Manual & Quick Guide, Remote, Composite AV cable

Product Description

Ever wanted to relive those key family vacation recordings in the comfort of your living room? How about listen to your favorite music, while viewing through a slideshow of your latest digital photos? All of that can be now done with the new MediaGate M²TVMedia Player, Media 2 TV never made easier! Scalability, portability and flexibility, all in Full 1080P. Plug and play any external hard drive using the USB host port, or simply plug in your digital memory card and enjoy the digital life on your digital TV using the MediaGate M²TV. The best has just got better, now supporting Real Media files!

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

14 of 14 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Good, but could have been much better, August 24, 2009

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AY "AY" (Northern California) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Noah Company MediaGate MG-M2TVD Digital Media Player HDMI Full 1080P with DTS 2.0 Digital Audio Out (Black) (Electronics)

As the other reviewer noted, the fan is super loud, more noisy than my PC with 3 fans. Granted, there is a mod over on the yahoo group to modify it so the fan is less loud, it also means I have to open up the box. I buy the box to be ready to use. Not acceptable IMHO, so I took out one star for that.

The next bad thing is that there is no easy way to change the screen resolution on the fly during play back, other similar product from chinese manufacturer has that feature. It is very useful to swap between 4:3 vs 16:9 material. There are also some files has no sound when play and it does have sound on the computer. That is the reason why I only give it 3 star.

It is great that my parents can plug in the SD card directly from the Digital Camera and see everything on TV, photo and movie.

20 of 22 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars First Impression, August 12, 2009

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Adam C (Texas) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Noah Company MediaGate MG-M2TVD Digital Media Player HDMI Full 1080P with DTS 2.0 Digital Audio Out (Black) (Electronics)

I have the WD HDTV. This MG-M2TV beats pretty much every aspect one can think of.

MG-M2TV has RGB component out for older HD TVs out, WD HDTV does not.
MG-M2TV has build-in SD flash memory reader, WD HDTV does not.
MG-M2TV has a HW on/off switch, WD HDTV does not.
MG-M2TV has an active cooling fan, WD HDTV does not. The fan is noisy however. It tuns out better not to have one. :)
MG-M2TV has both coaxial and optical digital out, WD HDTV only has optical.
MG-M2TV has a cover on USB ports, WD HDTV does not. I know not a big deal.
WD HDTV remote is higher responsive than MG-M2TV, use AAA rather than button lithium on MG-M2TV.
MG-M2TV remote however has more functions like zoom, slow, volume...

MG-M2TV has a richer menu with preview file copy, which however makes MG-M2TV a bit more complicated to use for grandma.
MG-M2TV can decode DTS-HD. WD HDTV will give you an unsupported audio stream message.
MG-M2TV can play RMVB, WD HDTV cannot.

There may be a few more but I think it is a K.O. already.
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Update:
It turns out there is a plastic protection cover on the remote receiver. Once removed remote is much more sensitive now.
Te little fan in the back is loud, as loud as a hair dryer.

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars The difference is in the "D", October 28, 2009

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Recluce - See all my reviews

This review is from: Noah Company MediaGate MG-M2TVD Digital Media Player HDMI Full 1080P with DTS 2.0 Digital Audio Out (Black) (Electronics)

Pros:
- Great Picture Quality
- More video formats than other boxes
- full DTS support
- EXT3 support

If you are looking at reviews and vendor offers for this device, be sure to note whether the item in question is the older "M2TV" or the new "M2TVD". The "D" stands for full DTS support, which was lacking in the M2TV and the fan got quieter, even though not quiet enough. As a rough time mark: if the review is before mid-September 2009, it will be about the older unit. My review is for the M2TVD

The box simply works as advertised, even though there are still some rough edges (see cons). So far, it has digested each and any video format I have thrown at it, including HD MPEG2, DVD ISO Images, MKV, AVI, DiVx and more. The picture over component and HDMI is both superb, Video output is adjustable (480p to 1080p, 50Hz/60Hz). Audio via TOS-Link to my Yamaha DSP-A1 works flawlessly.

On the USB-side: even though not in the docs, the box supports EXT3 filesystems, which is a big plus for Linux-people like me.


Cons:
- The fan is still too loud
- Box hangs after "Standby" from Remote Control
- Many small rough edges, see below.

OK, the fan is not as loud as the reviews for the M2TV imply. But it is still quite audible during low-volume parts of a movie from 15 feet away. Bearable, but still not good.

After you shut down the box from the remote, it will hang when you try to turn it on again. You need to turn it off/on at the box itself.

Subtitles mostly default to "On". Not a big deal, but an annoyance to turn them off all the time.

On a few files, bringing up the audio or subtitle menu you will cause a video glitch after which your audio is out of sync (several seconds). Rewinding for a few seconds will resync the audio.

For DVD navigation, there does not seem to be a key equivalent to the "Menu" key on a DVD-Player. This is quite annoying.

Summary: a good box, even a steal at the price. If the firmware gets more mature, a great media player.

Update (a year later): I have changed my rating from four to two stars. Why? Because firmware support by this company is virtually non-existent. Over that year, a single firmware update came out (when they brought out the WLAN module for it) which changed a lot and did not address many bugs while introducing new ones.

Here are some of the more annoying unfixed problems:

- Still does not reliable recover from standby, requiring a hard power-cycle
- does not reliably support compressed MKV streams (no picture with some files)
- sometimes crashes on preview of ISO files while navigating the files on disk
- has trouble with some XVID files ("unsupported GOP")

For these reasons, I would suggest you spend your money on another player. The M˛TVD could have been great, but time showed that the company doesn't stand behind it.