Customer Reviews

New Model brite-View CinemaGo : Wireless Set of brite-View CinemaTube Mini (Full 1080p HD media player/streamer/torrent downloader+ dedicated USB WiFi Adapter)

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I've already owned a Brite-View BV-5005HD "CinemaTube" 3-in-1 1080p Full HD Multimedia Player/Streamer/Torrent Downloader, Black from brite-View. When I checked its website, I found there's an accessory : A dedicated USB wifi dongle that I can connect my CinemaTube on the network wirelessly. I've tried streaming videos from my NAS with built-in wired connection (an Ethernet cable is included in the package, which is a plus!) and the performance is great. With another $ 25 with free shipping of the USB wifi dongle, I think I can give it a try!

Before I made the purchase, I did check the streaming performance report over wifi in brite-view's website, it says pretty much all 720p videos are OK, but 1080i / 1080p you will experience serious lag. I think this is reasonable due to the broadcasting natural of wifi networking and most of my videos are in 720p / 480p. It came with a bubble envelope. I just plugs it to the CinemaTube and no driver needed the CinemaTube can work with it plug-n-play. It found APs easily (it's 802.11n, compatible with my Linksys 802.11n wireless router), even some of my neighbors and with on screen keyboard, I can key in password without any effort. The streaming quality just like it says on website, 720p videos are good enough without any lag. To my surprise, some of my 1080p videos can be streaming without lag too. But when it comes to higher max bitrate, yeah, it failed to stream 1080p videos and you will experience lag. But I'm aware of this limitation and I have no complains about it.

If you want to wirelessly stream your videos (of course 720p / 480p) from your computers or NAS to TV via a media player, I will recommend the CinemaTube with its USB wifi dongle. The benefit of selling them separately is that I can use the USB wifi dongle in my PCs if necessary.

*** a video update on Feb 22 to show the new UI of CinemaTube and how it works with the USB wifi dongle... the movie is 1080P@23fps

I picked this player over the WD because of the additional features (such as torrent) & the remote is much nicer (more like a standard full function dvd remote). I agree with all the other positive reviews on the primary features, so look at those for my opinion on those, I'll just focus on the wireless usb NIC. I had a non-broadcasting network, but briteview couldn't link to it this way, so I had to enable broadcast & voila, I have a good DHCP connection. Even though the wireless connection is good, the bandwidth detected isn't enough to stream reasonably HD files smoothly, so there appears to be some sort of on the fly compression that reduces the quality (& thus the bandwidth detection phase).

I specifically bought the USB NIC so could avoid running wires, but I may not have a choice since I'm not too happy with the lag. On the other hand, playing files directly off of my 1TB drive plays perfectly! I highly recommend the Simpletech's redrive brand, as these automatically turn on/off with the Briteview (or any PC it's plugged into).

Overall, very nice product.
PS: The auto preview & automatic starting of the next media file in the selected folder is a very cool feature.

This item ships in two shipments, the player itself and the wireless adapter separately. The player was shipped by fedex 2 day and the wireless adapter by usps first class. For 4 days I thought the wrong item was shipped. When I placed this order there were 30+ of this item in stock but zero of the non-combo units.

Once installed this item plays well, I can't say I have every type of video file it claims to be able to play but so far everything I have has played well. The only negative: Video is washed out/too bright when played through the A/V ports and I can't find a setting to tone it down.

I am very happy with the product. Had some intial setup issue however due to promptly reply from BriteView support the issue was resolved quickly. I would recommend any body interested in good media player to go for this device.

This is a same unit purchased for relative as mentioned from the last review .So far so good and everything works well ,but have noticed the unit becomes quite hot with several hours playing .Although there's no malfunction just yet ,i have cooled the unit with fan while in use as a protective measure ! I also own a WD media player ,but stop using it since replace with this one .

I bought this to connect to my Plasma TV. I have been very happy with the product. It has absolutely brilliant picture quality. The Setup is a breze and navigation very straight forward.

My only crib is that it does not recognize some of mine WMV and ASF files. Have not yet figured out what the problem is

It's absolutely great. You won't need a dvd or blue ray any more. It works in every format perfectly, even through wi fi.

Supports everything out of the box. Good remote. Supports external DVD rom. (Goodbye Home Theater PC~) Actively developing firmware. Wireless speed sufficient for all 720p and some highly compressed 1080p videos.
Setting up sharing with windows 7 took some work, but is well discussed in the forum.

I received this in 2 separate shipments. The first was the wireless and it came USPS, The second was the unit. This was shipped via fedex to the local USPS and they delivered it to me. All came as expected.
I set this up on my TV in the bedroom. I have a PS3 on the bigger TV and use a DNLA/UpNp server I set up to stream movies from my computer. My wife can watch one movie on one TV and I can watch a different on on the other. It plays the .mpg files I have saved on the server. I am using the Play Station Media server to stream the Media. [...] is the project page for it.
I have used it to play Internet music and Internet TV sites on the BriteView. It seems to work well. Setup was easy!
I can not seem to get it to work with my Pictures yet, but then again I have not played with that part yet. I am sure I am missing a simple setting.

The picture Quality is great, cant complain. When scrolling threw the movies it can be a little slow but the new firmware made this a bit quicker. Shut off the preview will make this even faster. It takes about 3 seconds to load the movie and start playing it over the wireless connection.
The remote had lots of functions, but I programed my harmony one and it works great.
I did lots of research on this before purchase and I have to say it was money well spent!

I've been happy with two of this CT, one in bedroom, another in family room, both plugged into BV Powerline Adapters. In this setup the CT can stream everything EXCEPT for blue-ray movies, which I put in an HD and plug right into the back of the CT. Wireless is stil not as reliable and fast as wired network.