OC3D Review: Icy Box IB-MP301 HDD Media Player

[Jim]

"Looking for easy access to your MP3, video and image collections via your TV without the need for an expensive HTPC setup? Maybe Icy Box have the answer with their HDD Media Player."



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[Rastalovich]

Great read m8. All through the descriptions I kept stopping and thinking "hmm ageing tech.." - then getting to the end and seeing the price tag, it`s pretty decent.

I couldn`t see myself buying it to house my DVD collection, as frankly it wouldn`t fit (limiting to 500g), but I could however see myself filling it with all music, photos/pictures and maybe music videos. Even tho that`d probably only take perhaps a safe 200g.

For the price I think it`s great, not a movie thing for me tho.

[Jim]

Originally Posted by name='Rastalovich'

I couldn`t see myself buying it to house my DVD collection, as frankly it wouldn`t fit (limiting to 500g), but I could however see myself filling it with all music, photos/pictures and maybe music videos. Even tho that`d probably only take perhaps a safe 200g.

Yeah agreed. In all honesty I can see it appealing more to people who download things like episodes of Lost, 24, Simpsons etc off the net (note: I don't condone this!) and just want to be able to watch it on a big screen without faffing around burning it to disks.

[Barnie]

one thing i will say is the manual is pretty poor, offers no problem solutions

[Jim]

Originally Posted by name='Barnie'

one thing i will say is the manual is pretty poor, offers no problem solutions

Hi Barnie, What problems are you having? I'll try and give you a hand as I was the one who wrote the review. If not, we also have a supported Icy Box forum here: http://forum.overclock3d.net/forumdisplay.php?f=148

[Xebedie]

Hi There,

I wonder if, as the reviewer, you would be so good as to tell us what the solution was that Raidsonic provided you with to format a HDD in the unit.

I have formatted a 500g drive using mac OSX, which works ok except for the fact that the unit only recognizes 3000 of the media items stored on it.

When I try to format it using a windows XP machine, the unit doesn't recognize the disk at all.

I have tried to contact Raidsonic myself, but after three days they have not responded.

Yours

Xebedie

[Barnie]

hi as ive just done it i may be able to help

raidsonic were very quick in there reply to me

right some issues i had was, you have to use the fat32 system to format to which i didnt first time and it wont read

second was the jumpers were in the incorrect position but all good now

[Xebedie]

ok, great.

What's the best way to format in fat32 in XPSP2.. (i'm a mac person!)

XP only seems to give the option to format in NTFS (or whatever it is)...

[Barnie]

pass im not up on macs sorry

[Xebedie]

Hi Barney,

Ok, so I formatted the HDD for FAT32 on a PC... but I get the SAME PROBLEM... which is that the unit only recognizes the first 3000 media items. Everyone seems stumped on this... any thoughts anyone?

Xeb