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MediaGate MG-800HD 3.5" HDD 1080p wireless N Media Player

by Azend Company
3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (10 customer reviews)


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Technical Details

  • Watch Movies View Photos or Play Music on your Television
  • Supports SATA/Serial ATA 11/3G Hard Drive up to 1TB
  • 802.11N Wireless -N Connection and 10/100 LAN Ethernet Port Backwards Compatible with 802.11g
  • Able to play media files from internal hard drive or PCs in the network via included remote control
  • High-End Sigma Design 8635 Chip
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Product Details

  • Product Dimensions: 11.5 x 5.3 x 9 inches ; 4.6 pounds
  • Shipping Weight: 5 pounds
  • ASIN: B001MXP8C4
  • Item model number: MG-800HD
  • Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (10 customer reviews)
  • Date first available at Amazon.com: December 3, 2008

Product Description

From the Manufacturer

MediaGate MG-800HD is an essential component of your digital lifestyle. With its multifunctional features, this Wi-Fi Net-Disk multimedia player will be the focal point for digital home or office. MG-800HD supports N Draft wireless protocol for very fast file transfer.

Get crystal clear HD resolution on your TV with HDMI output. Experience full digital 5.1 audio on your audio system with the SPDIF digital audio output. Use the Wi-Fi Networking to access and transfer data on your MG-800HD using the FTP Server/Client protocol from home or at your office.

Now, digitally store or download with built in BitTorrent client, your DVD movies, music or photos and enjoy the playback in the comfort of your home living room with the ultimate digital multimedia jukebox… The MediaGate MG-800HD.

Features
  • High Definition Media Player up to 1080p (H.264,VC1 and WMV9)
  • Trans-code to support most updated multimedia format
  • Instant Access to favorite internet Video/Photo/Radio (YouTube, Live365,etc...)
  • Media Transferable among PC, Mobile and NAS
  • DLNA and UPnP Compliant
  • Multimedia Streaming from PC, Mobile and NAS media storage to Mediagate 800HD via Wired or Wireless Networks
  • Projector for Wireless Office Presentation
  • HDMI/Composite Video Output built in support
  • 64/128 Bit WEP and WPA-PSK network security support
  • Network wizard support to easily connect to home networking
  • One-TouchColor Coded Shortcut Buttons Remote Controller-for Quick Access to Music,Photo,Video and online media
  • HDD storage support (Optional) as Personal Media Center
  • Premium Content Protection (DRM,DTCP-IP)
  • MKV, ISO/IFO File Format Support
  • BitTorrent Client

Product Description

MediaGate MG-800HD is an essential component of your digital lifestyle. With its multifunctional features, this Wi-Fi Net-Disk multimedia player will be the focal point for digital home or office. MG-800HD supports N Draft wireless protocol for very fast file transfer. Get crystal clear HD resolution on your TV with HDMI output. Experience full digital 5.1 audio on your audio system with the SPDIF digital audio output. Use the Wi-Fi Networking to access and transfer data on your MG-800HD using the FTP Server/Client protocol from home or at your office. Now, digitally store or download with built in BitTorrent client, your DVD movies, music or photos and enjoy the playback in the comfort of your home living room with the ultimate digital multimedia jukebox… The MediaGate MG-800HD. Features: High Definition Media Player up to 1080p (H.264,VC1 and WMV9). Trans-code to support most updated multimedia format. Instant Access to favorite internet Video/Photo/Radio (YouTube, Live365,etc). Media Transferable among PC, Mobile and NAS. DLNA and UPnP Compliant. Multimedia Streaming from PC, Mobile and NAS media storage to Mediagate 800HD via Wired or Wireless Networks. Projector for Wireless Office Presentation. HDMI/Composite Video Output built in support. 64/128 Bit WEP and WPA-PSK network security support. Network wizard support to easily connect to home networking. One-TouchColor Coded Shortcut Buttons Remote Controller-for Quick Access to Music,Photo,Video and online media. HDD storage support (Optional) as Personal Media Center. Premium Content Protection (DRM,DTCP-IP). MKV, ISO/IFO File Format Support. BitTorrent Client. Network Multimedia Center - Digital Multimedia Player/Streamer. Supports SATA HD, Full HD, 1080P output, 10/100 LAN, 802.11N UPnP compliant, Watch Movies, View Photos, or Play Music on your television.


 

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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars What a wonderful idea, June 1, 2009
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When I first opened the box to this product, I knew this was a quality item. Then I opened the owners manual and I knew that I was on my own for any setup and technical issues, and this was confirmed when I sneeaked a look at the MediaGate site and saw that their idea of technical support was to post in a forum. I'm a computer nerd, so I wasn't scared, but if you are not a computer nerd, don't expect to be able to easily set this up or solve any problems that come up.

After setting it up, I played every type of media file I could find on my computer as a test of it's ability. It performed very well. I was even able to wirelessly stream video from an external USB hard drive without any glitches! One of only three issues I found while doing this was with large WAV files, which would play halfway through and then stop. I'm not sure why that is, but I also do not have the latest firmware version installed yet. Then there was the issue with certain VOB files, since MediaGate detected the english subtitles but did not detect the chinese subtitles. Finally there was the issue with the Server window, which if you tried to resize, would snap into a fixed size. This worked fine on my WinXP laptop, but made some application controls inaccessible on my WinVista desktop. I thought about changing my screen resolution from 2560x1600 to something smaller and trying to resize it again so that it would snap to a new size, but I haven't tried that yet. I consider all these issues to be minor problems that can eventually be worked around, so I'm not going to complain too loudly, since I am very happy with everything else.

So while I would recommend this product to any hi-tech gadget freak or computer enthusiast, if you are not already a computer nerd, I would recommend finding one before trying to set this up.
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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:
2.0 out of 5 stars Just Not Worth the $300, April 24, 2009
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This review is from: MediaGate MG-800HD 3.5" HDD 1080p wireless N Media Player (Electronics)
As I write this, I have to tell you I am a huge Mediagate fan. I have had the MG-25 for over 3 years and love it. It does exactly what it purports to do with little or no grief, and certainly has it's shortcomings but for the price point of the product is, in my opinion, a great value.

So after a friend's glowing review I was really looking forward to deploying the MG-800HD in my network and solving a persistent problem of getting my UPNP server content to my HDTV without file copies and the like.

I ordered this unit and a WD Caviar Green 500GB hard drive and proceeded to build it, loading the latest firmware from Mediagate in the process. There are a lot of cool features like web browsing built into the latest firmware and although I am skeptical that people are going to buy this thing to hook up a KVM and surf the web, it is nice to see they are adding functionality.

Things that worked well:
-Streaming capability from a UPNP source (painless)
-Wireless setup fast and easy, even for WPA2 network
-Good format support (as expected)
-Remote has good range and is laid out fairly well
-Lots of ways to access your content (network, USB, local HD if installed)

Things that did not work well:
-UI experience is cheap and unpolished
-Wireless transfer of files using device as a repository very flakey
-System stability issues/lockups/freezes

Unfortunately, I had several problems with NAS performance over wireless that doesn't occur with other devices I operate on my network. Random dropouts, the inability to copy even moderately-large files without hangups, and having to hard reset the system to get it to recognize the new files at times.

In the final analysis, I liked some of what was provided with this device, but needless to say, I promptly sent it back. A device this expensive needs to slam dunk all of the features and for me, my $300 was better spent elsewhere.

If you have a slingbox at home, I would highly suggest looking at the Slingcatcher instead of this device. With the latest firmware update it does almost everything this device does (sans the local hard drive) and gets it done in a much more elegant, polished way. Add to that the Sling capability and it was a slam dunk for me. You can have that plus a wireless bridge solution for ~$260.00USD.
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars MediaGate 800-HD, November 5, 2009
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T. W. Glass (Orange Park, FL USA) - See all my reviews
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Really like this product. Very easy to setup and get running. Comes with Wi-Fi but for downloading movies to the hard drive or streaming from your computer the wired networking workes the best.
The unit doesn't come with a Hard drive but one should be ordered. SATA
Have yet to find a website that streaming is compatable with the unit.
Also the web browser is a little clunky.
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