Brite-View CinemaCube networkable media player and BitTorrent downloader! (model # BV-5003)

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Product Details

• Product Dimensions: 8.2 x 5.5 x 1.8 inches ; 1.5 pounds
• Shipping Weight: 3 pounds
• ASIN: B002729ZU0
• Item model number: BV-5003
• Average Customer Review: 2.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (12 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #25,692 in Electronics (See Bestsellers in Electronics)
• Date first available at Amazon.com: April 20, 2009

Product Description

Product Description

Overview

brite-View "CinemaCube"(model : BV-5003) is a multi-format Audio/Video Media player, with resolution up to 1280X720** HD (certain but not full 720P, please check description below.

For Video, it supports :

RM, RMVB (codec : real video 8/9/10) with 720X408/576 at 30fps at max bitrates 1000kbps

AVI/MP4/MKV (codec : MPEG-4, DivX 3/4/5/6, XVID) with resolutions up to 1280X720 at 30fps with max bitrates 8Mbps

AVI/MP4/MKV (codec :H.264) with resolutions up to 720X480/576 at 30fps with max bitrates 6Mbps

VOB/MPG/MP4/TS (codec : MPEG-2 with resolutions up to 1920X1080 at 30fps with max bitrates 25Mbps

WMV/ASF (codec :VC-1/WMV9) with resolutions up to 1280X720 at 30fps with max bitrates 6Mbps

WMV/ASF (codec :WMV 7/8) with resolutions up to 720X480/576 at 30fps with max bitrates 8Mbps

DAT/MPG (codec : MPEG-1) with resolutions up to 1920X1080 at 30fps with max bitrates 25Mbps

Music and Image : MP3, Real Audio, FLAC, AAC, OGG, WAV, JPEG, GIF, BMP & PNG.

It can play media files from USB storage devices (NTFS/FAT32/EXT-3, not support HFS+) or from computers in the same network.NOTE : Built-in wired connection, an Ethernet Cable is included! WiFi is not Built-in!! Approved USB WiFi dongle is sold separately!.

Multiple languages Support

The CinemaCube supports 5 languages from English, Traditional & Simplified Chinese, French and Espanish!!

PC-free BT download

With built-in most popular bittorrent p2p file sharing engine, "CinemaCube" let you download media files on the Internet without having to turn your computers on. The excessive wear and tear on your PC hard drive and constant risk of virus and spyware infected content makes downloading using PC dangerous. Let "CinemaCube" do the heavy lifting of downloading and free your PC to do something else.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars not as good as advertised!, August 4, 2009

By	don (Las Vegas, NV) - See all my reviews

the good:
1. can play back most popular video files.
2. works good with external usb harddrive.

the bad:
1. 9 out of 10 .mkv fiels can not be play.
2. serious lag when comes to HD real(rm/rmvb) video files.
3. take way too long to search the usb external hard drive for video file. make it worse, it do the same search over & over again whenever you change to diffrent folder even it is still in the same hard drive.
4. the worst part: 9 out 10 bt seeds from those popular bt site like mininova/isohunt... etc never start downloading, always "waiting" & 0% (all these seeds works lighting fast on the computer with same network) while only the bt files from the manufcture's website did works fine:-).

other thought: bought this media player for it's BT prt but very disppointed. other than the network fuction, there's no diffrent with the one i had before which is cheaper & much easy to use. what a waste of money!

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars A great idea, reasonable price and great customer support, August 25, 2009

By	H. Ying (Palo Alto, CA) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

First of all for the price this is a very decent product (those complain about build quality should take price into factor). The idea to combine BT, local media playback and networked file access is unique and not seen by other product in the class. All other network-enabled devices don't have native network apps except file access on remote computers.

I decided to give this unit a try because of the local BT app that frees up the computer. Everything worked out of the box except that the unit only contains drivers to the one wireless adapter they sell separately (costing $29.99). It is straightforward to setup, media playback quality was satisfactory.

However I did have problem upgrade their firmware (I learned the lesson of "if it ain't broke, don't fix it"). This is where the great customer support came to play. I got very fast email replies explaining the situation and offer for an exchange. I decided to go to a local office to pick up the new unit (they offer free shipping/return labels if you are not close by to their office), everything was as smooth as I hoped. Obviously the company takes all customers really seriously. I'm guessing the company is still small that's why only email support is offered.

I take one star off for something that can still be improved, hopefully they will create better products in the future:
1) Firmware upgrade is not robust enough, it crashed my original unit.
2) Like another reviewer said, the initial setup needs to be on composite output, not HDMI output. This is not obvious, a better way would be to have an external switch.
3) The UI is bland, a media-center like UI would make this unit much sexier.
4) Wish it can have a way to work with more USB/wireless adapters.
5) also as someone else mentioned, some .mkv files don't play.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Problem accessing shared folders, July 22, 2009

By	Newsjoker - See all my reviews

Initially I couldn't get it working with the shared folders on the network. I have three different computers with shared folders but BV-5003 coudn't find them.

It turned out to be sensitive to the subnet mask setting. I got it working with subnet mask 255.255.255.0, it doesn't work with 255.255.0.0.

With share access working, I would give it 4 stars. It would be nice to have editable RSS feeds and http downloads to be completely happy.