MVIX (MV-5000U) Multimedia Player (w/ FM Transmiter)

by Mvix

Product Details

• ASIN: B000B9V3WO
• Average Customer Review: 3.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (16 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #163,713 in Electronics (See Top 100 in Electronics)
• Date first available at Amazon.com: March 17, 2007

Customer Reviews

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9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Excellent device...but only compatible with Windows for file transfer, April 11, 2006

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slackwaredave - See all my reviews

This review is from: MVIX (MV-5000U) Multimedia Player (w/ FM Transmiter) (Electronics)

This is a great device and I'm quite pleased with it. Be advised that you need a Windows computer to get the files onto it that you want to play. I run Linux and assumed that I could ignore the usual "Windows only" warnings for this product because I know that I can use a USB hard drive easily with my computer. The Mvix will not accept files from a Linux computer in spite of trying everything I could think of (the manufacturer's website comfirms this). I ended up using a USB drive enclosure to format the hard drive and to put the files on it, then I put the hard drive in the Mvix and everything plays ok. It's a lot of trouble, but it works. Want more files? Take the drive back out of the Mvix and put it back in the USB drive enclosure. Repeat as desired.

I love the device, but if you're not a Windows user, there's a tad of trouble involved.

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Exactly what I was looking for...., February 17, 2006

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Inbum Yoo "jjas" (Wood Ridge, NJ) - See all my reviews

This review is from: MVIX (MV-5000U) Multimedia Player (w/ FM Transmiter) (Electronics)

Recd. this player last month. Here are some of my experiences

Format Support - This alone probably worth all the "stars". It supports virtually all formats, including Divx, Xvid, MPEG etc. And it DOES support ISO's as well, although it's not documented anywhere. MP3's, Picture JPEG's, original DVD (VOB), etc. - I have tried it all, and it handled everything without any problems. The NTSC/PAL capabilities makes it one the best "region free" players in the market. If you have 1000's of MP3s, remember to organize them in multiple folders - thats the right way of using a HDD-based media player. It reduces seek time and increases performance.

Design - I like the nice and sleek design of this player. It's thin, and the nice matte silver color nicely compliments my Sony Wega TV that I connected it to. It really looks elegant with that shinning LCD at night.

Price - I think it's well worth it, especially if you have a lot of "homemade" DVD's.

I am basically unhappy that you have to carry this player to your PC everytime you want to transfer a file. A wireless connection will be a valueable addition to this. I wish the designers used the Radio freq. remote than the IR remote. Isnt IR old-fashioned already?? - and Oh! the portable bag that comes with it - what a waste - my wife uses it to carry her old cosmetics in it.

Thanks to this player, I am getting into the mode of organizing all my media files at one place... thats what such devices should do.

To sum it up I am very pleased with this product... this is exactly what I was looking for.

6 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars A Great Unit but some nagging problems, October 3, 2006

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Jim M. Hastings-trew (Saskatoon, SK Canada) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: MVIX (MV-5000U) Multimedia Player (w/ FM Transmiter) (Electronics)

Read the other reviews for what the Mvix can do. I just want to jot down a few notes here about some nagging problems I have encountered:

If a DVD title contains parental controls, the Mvix cannot proceed beyond the screen telling you so. If you are ripping your own DVDs, you'll need to find a utility called FreeDVD which will remove these controls from the DVD files before they'll work on the Mvix.

If you like to RIP your DVDs to an mpeg-4 format such as DivX or XviD, the Mvix will display blocky artifacting around any medium to bright red objects in the video. If you use a utility such as mencoder, and use the LAVC codec instead, these artifacts are absent and the video looks terrific. However, LAVC has nearly non-existant bitrate control so its easy to create movies which exceed the Mvix's ability to keep up with video data. I realize this probably sounds like incomprehensible geek mumbo jumbo to most readers of these reviews, but suffice to say, if you are in the habit of downloading movies (which are primarily in xvid format) the playback on the Mvix will be marred by these artifacts. I've been in contact with Mvix support and hope to see a resolution to this issue, which should be solved by a firmware update.

Aside from that, the one thing not mentioned in other reviews here is the spectacular quality of the output from the Mvix. If you hook it up to your television with the component connections, the image quality is superb.