ASUS OPLAY_MINI/1A/NTSC/AS Media Player - Black

This device is pretty awesome!It can send analog Stereo audio over the audio output, while sending digital video over the HDMI connection; as well as send 5.1 surround sound (or stereo too) through the HDMI connection.The only thing that's missing are:1- Manual screen saver (to enable it whenever you want)2- EQ (to enable sound changing)3- Easier aspect ratio modification (the player has a single aspect ratio change in configuration settings, but it would be nice to be able to change aspect ratio's indipendently and on the fly while watching the movie. Eg: sometimes a video might look stretched, or might be shown as 16/9 over a 16/10 screen (with 2 unwanted black bars). Sometimes a person may actually prefer to remove the black bars, at the cost of some data on the left/right of the screen; and to some extend, this is where zoom function comes in handy. However zoom can not correct for stretched image.4- No postprocessing, no sharpening, no de-interlacing option, no crystalizer (sound optimizer for low bitrate music or audio)Other than that, some video may look a bit weird, low quality through the player (as if it operated on 10 or 12 bit instead of 24 bit colors).Aside from these minus points, the device works really well!The remote control is of much better quality than the chinese variants sold on Amazon! Great, long lasting (high endurance) rubber buttons, with sensible feedback (click) when pressed. 2xAAA batteries (not the crappy flat batteries used in other devices), and the buttons on the remote are kind of where you want them to be.Not too many buttons, and not too few.In some occasions I get confused when to use the stop button, or when to use the back/return button.As well as when to use the 'ok' or when to use the 'play' button.In some menu's it would make sense to make both work the same function.When playing back the movie, the Up/Dn on the cross don't work. Left-right conveniently skips you forward/back to part of the movie quickly.It also has an optical output, but I haven't tested that one yet.*edit: the device has no global setting for subtitles. At every movie, you'll have to manually turn on subs.

Love this device. I've had it since 2010, use it every day at home, and it still works perfectly. It accommodates both composite video output and HDMI cable, which is convenient and useful; I use both in the same TV. The Asus Media Player plays every type of file I've come across including MP3 and MP4, AVI, etc. Again, it couldn't be simpler: plug in the power cord, then plug in either the composite RCA cables or the HDMI cable to the TV, then plug your USB drive into the device itself and you're ready to go. Don't lose the remote or the device won't work.Some users complain of the delay in remote commands. To fix this problem, I reboot by unplugging for 10 seconds. I've been doing this for six years without a problem. Small inconvenience for a great product.If you find the picture is distorted due to incorrect format, simply go to "settings" and change the aspect ratio to the desired one. There are various other settings, but adjustment of the aspect ratio is usually all you need if you encounter a distorted picture. The TV itself can also help with various aspect ratio setting and zoom levels. If your widescreen movie shows up as squeezed into letterbox style, make sure in settings that you've chosen 16:9 and not 4:3. In some cases that will fill the screen properly for a better experience.I have terabyte external hard drives with about 800 movies on them; be advised that the Asus device will not handle a large number of movie files. If you have hundreds of movies on a hard drive, the Asus menu will offer you about a third of them at best. So the best way to see the files you want to see is to copy them onto a flash drive first.Video quality is excellent. The only reason I give four stars instead of 5 is that (a) Too bad the settings couldn't be more automated, and (b) it won't handle large collections of movie files in a single hard drive.

This is, by far, one of the best media players HD out there. Very cheap and works like a charm. This can play flawlessly any kind of video, audio, and photo file. I play HD1080p content without any issue.The unit boot up very quickly, menus are simple and response is quick. HDD detection is pretty fast (my old WD needs 10x more time to detect the USB drives).Add to the great HDMI and Optical audio quality, you still have regular RCA video/audio cables. I used it in some Hotels. Quality is superb.Power consumption is low and you can browse your movies by list, preview or thumbnails (great!).There is no lot of options on this one like Network connection, WIFI, Netflix or other Online services, but sometimes, simple is better!I highly recommend this product. I purchase about 15 of this ones for friends and families.