Saturday, June 25, 2011

Hornettek Fantasy HD 1080P HDMI Dolby Digital/DTS Media Player


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Sit back, relax, and enjoy your HD movies, photos, and music with Hornettek Fantasy! Not only is it compact and sleek in design, the Hornettek Fantasy is a powerful media player that comes with Full HD-video playback (up to 1080p), Dolby Digital, and DTS surround sound enabled. Simply plug in any USB storage device or insert a SD card into the Hornettek Fantasy and begin playing your favorite movies, music, and pictures on your TV with the user-friendly remote control. Hornettek Fantasy's feature menu allows you to quickly browse and play any movies, photos, and music from an external USB storage device and SD card. It also supports today's most popular media formats (MKV, RMVB...etc). With a special air-circulation design, Hornettek Fantasy is a noise-free device with a strong digital media processor which ensures long hours of best quality movie, music, and photo playback. Supporting both PAL and NTSC television formats, the Hornettek Fantasy will automatically adjust between PAL and NTSC to fit almost all TV standards around the world.

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Cheap - but maybe not cheap enough for no network/DLNA . I was looking for a small, cheap media player for my car's stock head unit. I didn't want to mess with the stock Navi so the fact that I had RCA inputs for Audio (L/R) and Video (composite), I figured it would be worth it to try something to at least add the ability to play MP3s and music videos.

I looked at a few others online, but this was the cheapest locally.

Included:
-Main media player with USB and SD card slot
-AC power adaptor
-Remote and AA batteries
-AV cable (Audio and composite video)

Hooked it up for testing to a 42" 1080p Philips TV and it was decent. Menu has the main choices of Video, Pictures, Music, File Browser, and Setup. By default it's set to scan the drives when connected and determine what falls into which category. I tested pictures on a 2 gig SD card from a digital camera and MP3s and videos in different formats from an 8 gig USB flash drive.

Pros:
Small and light
Played back everything I tested:
-MP4 with AAC audio
-AVI xvid/AC3
-720p AVI x.264
-MKV with subtitles
-MP3s of varying bitrates
-remote has dedicated buttons for Video, Pictures, Music, and File Browser, etc.
-can be powered by a USB cable in the car (need a 12v to USB that supports 5v/2a and a 3.5mm connector, + tip, - ring)
-shuffle mode for MP3s
-can read ID3 tags for sorting and for display on the "now playing" screen

Cons:
-Composite output is soft/fuzzy (kinda expected that...)
-SD and USB were listed in file browser under USB... After opening USB, you see C: and D: (one is your SD, one is your USB)
-Did not list the pics on the SD card under the Pictures category (but you can see them in the file browser)


Since I don't plan to use this in the house (would buy a networkable one), I think this will fit the bill in the car. I just wanted to add MP3 and music video capabilities to my stock head unit without swapping it out.

I was considering the Kenwood add-on with a dedicated display and controller, but that would be for MP3s only.

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Feature Hornettek Fantasy HD 1080P HDMI Dolby Digital/DTS Media Player

  • Supports Composite Out & HDMI 1.3 Out
  • SD/MS Card Reader
  • Supports up to 1080P HD Resolutions
  • Dolby Digital AC3 & DTS Supported
  • SPDIF audio out supported.


Product Details

EAN : 0813538011789
UPC : 813538011789
MPN : MP-1055
Brand : Hornettek
Color : Black
Binding : Electronics
Manufacturer : Hornettek, LLC.
Publisher : Hornettek, LLC.
Release Date : 2011-04-19
Studio : Hornettek, LLC.

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