Mvix MV-2500U Ultra Portable HDD Based Media Center [Supplied Sans Hard Drive]

Mvix have announced the immediate availability of their new MV-2500U Ultra Portable hard disk drive based media center which ‘provides the joy of watching your favorite videos, movies, music and family photos on your TV or home-theater projector’ courtesy of a pocket sized, easily transportable device – though the actual HDD required for storage of your media files will have to be purchased separately from the device itself.

Described as ‘a hybrid functionality of a Hard-Drive Enclosure and Multimedia Player’, Mvix’s MV-2500U supports 2.5″ P-ATA / IDE hard disk drives up to a maximum 250GB+ and works, in practice, just like any other external USB hard drive allowing you to drag and drop content to the unit directly from your PC and subsequently hook up the MV-2500U to, in the case of video content, a HDTV – with the unit providing up to 1080p decoding of video internally.

Apart from supporting MPEG1/2/4, DVD (VOB, IFO), DivX, XviD, BivX and VCD (DAT) video file formats Mvix’s MV-2500U also offers digital audio support - AC3, MP2, MP3, WMA, OGG and M3U audio – and JPEG compatibility, allowing the unit to store and view your digital imagery.

Mvix MV-2500U Multimedia Center Specifications:

PC Interface: USB 2.0 (Backward Compatible to USB 1.1)
Supported Video Formats: MPEG1, MPEG2, MPEG4, AVI, DivX® 3.11, 4x, 5x, XviD, DVD(IFO, VOB), ISO
Supported Audio Formats: AC3, MP2, MP3, DTS pass through, WMA, OGG, M3U
Supported Image Formats: JPEG
Screen Aspect Ratio: 16:9 / 4:3 Letter Box / Pan Scan
TV System: NTSC, PAL, or AUTO
LCD Display: 128 X 64 mm*
Up Scaling: 1080i / 720p
Dimensions: 5 x 3 x 0.8 inches

* Interestingly, we note that the official specifications as at the time of writing, and as detailed in part above, detail an LCD display though, curiously, the product images show no evidence of the unit having any display whatsoever. Perhaps someone from Mvix could either offer some clarification here or amend the specifications on their own site to reflect the seemingly obvious lack of display.

Billed as being ‘a comprehensive 4-in-1, versatile video or music player for your car, RV, or even boats’ (perhaps they should have included ‘your home’ in there somewhere) the Mvix MV-2500U Multimedia Center, supplied complete with remote, will set you back around $150 – though we should stress that, as detailed above, you’ll also have to factor in the cost of a HDD should you be considering purchasing the MV-2500U as it comes sans hard drive.

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