#SONY SMPU10 USB MEDIA PLAYER PS3#
#SONY SMPU10 USB MEDIA PLAYER TV#

Batteries or batteries installed apparatus shall not be exposed to excessive heat such as sunshine, fire or the like. The mains lead must only be changed at a qualified service shop. Refer servicing to qualified personnel only. To avoid electrical shock, do not open the cabinet. WARNING To reduce the risk of fire or electric shock, do not expose this apparatus to rain or moisture. We watched Question Time - well, we are knocking on - and felt that the image was of broadcast quality.4-157-000-12(1) USB Media Player Operating Instructions SMP-U10 © 2009 Sony Corporation This is clearly down to the processing within the box, and that's something to be applauded. We were especially pleased to see that iPlayer video looks much crisper and more detailed than it does on other such systems. This device makes HD video from a USB stick, or footage sourced from an online service like iPlayer, look really great. It seems logical that this will change at some point.

For example, ITV Player is available on the PlayStation, but not the SMP-N100.

#SONY SMPU10 USB MEDIA PLAYER PS3#

If the PS3 is anything to go by, there will be more services coming to the SMP-N100 in the future. It's even better than the system on the PlayStation 3, which we're also very fond of. This takes a few seconds but, from then on, using a service like iPlayer is super-easy. The first time you use an online service, the player logs on, authenticates itself and downloads some data. The point is that the SMP-N100 is the first media player to provide premium content over the Internet.

#SONY SMPU10 USB MEDIA PLAYER TV#

We've yet to see much more than YouTube support from most other players, although some do offer Internet TV services such as Revision3. Making iPlayer, Demand 5 and a host of other online video services available, the SMP-N100 is one of the best-specified media players around. Do be aware, though, that powerline adaptors work best on fairly new cables, so, if you have a Victorian house, prepare for reduced speeds. Such an adaptor will cost you around £80. If you haven't got your house wired with Ethernet cable, then you might like to consider a powerline adaptor, which allows you to move HD video and audio around using the mains cables in your house. A wireless connection won't prove the best way to watch bulky HD video files, but it's a great way to quickly get online and catch-up with iPlayer, or check out the latest cat videos on YouTube.įor speed demons or people without a wireless network, there's a wired Ethernet connection. We're very pleased to see this - NTFS support is too rare on media players. The SMP-N100, however, can also play files stored on an NTFS volume, which gives you far fewer hurdles with big, high-definition files. Generally speaking, one of the biggest problems with media playback is that, if you use Fat32 as your hard-drive file system, then you're limited to playing files that have a maximum size of 4GB. But still, with network functionality, you could argue that it's just as easy to store your video on a network-attached storage device or laptop as it would be to store it on your streamer's hard drive. There's also no built-in hard drive, which puts this device at a slight disadvantage when compared with the spiffing Western Digital WD TV Live Hub. It's hardly a massive problem, but couldn't Sony have plonked another USB port on the back?

The problem is that it's not as neat if you want to leave a hard drive plugged in over the long term for easy access to your video library. It other ways, the port's position isn't so great.

It means you can plug in a USB memory stick and start playing video instantly. Putting a USB socket on the front of the machine was, in some ways, a great idea.

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