A Friend of mine, Donz Biago, was in KL this past weekend and very kindly purchased one unit for me (from a shop in 1Utama). It is currently available as a "Pre-launch Offer" at RM539 for the Link Pro (basically a media player - claimed to do almost all codex including MKV, RMVB ...), an Imation 320GB external HD, cables (including HDMI), and a remote control (including the AAA batteries).
The HD is a 2.5" Toshiba. The remote control is small but quite usable. I just plugged in the HDMI cable (it carries both video and sound), loaded the HD with some software, and turned the unit on.
A nice simple menu came up on screen. Setup allowed various adjustments to picture size, contrast, brightness and others. There is an ethernet LAN connection available (not tested, I will have to go and buy a cable as it was not provided).
All the media files (video, music and photos), from the storage media (HD and PenDrives) connected to the 2 USB ports at the front, will be shown on the screen. The screen above showed the external HD as Drive C.
Movies (AVI tested, H264 tested) played smoothly. So far, very nice. Imation could have included the LAN as wireless (more convenient for file transfers). Up-scaling to 720p would be nice if it was available. Of course the price would then be higher.
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