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The Hauppauge MediaMVP-HD makes it easy to enjoy your favorite digital videos, music, and photos, at up to 1080p resolution, on your HDTV. The MediaMVP-HD plays digital content from a Windows PC or a USB drive. When connected to a PC, the MediaMVP-HD uses your existing local area network (wired) connection to play videos, music, and display digital pictures on your HDTV. In both cases, you can enjoy digital video recordings, photo slideshows, plus your MP3 music collection--all through the high-definition picture and superior sound of your home television. And for the ultimate, customized home media system network, you can connect up to 12 MediaMVP-HDs, each to a separate TV set, giving you practically unlimited play and record options. MediaMVP-HDDigital Media PlayerAt a Glance:

Amazon Sales Rank: #10503 in Consumer Electronics Brand: Hauppauge Model: 1340 Number of items: 1 Dimensions: 8.00" h x 7.50" w x 3.25" l, 2.00 pounds Play full HD 1080p video, music and photos on your HD TV Functions as a networked device to play digital content from PCs on the home network Outputs include HDMI, Component, S-video or Composite Includes remote control Compatible with Windows 7, Windows Vista or Windows XP-SP2

Most helpful customer reviews 6 of 6 people found the following review helpful. Not bad for the price.... By DGray For the price paid (less than $75), it's not half bad. I connected it to my LAN and HDTV, configured for DHCP, and was easily able to detect my Ubuntu Linux based Mediatomb server. When I attempted playback of various media, I wasn't able to get sound over HDMI. I then tried component video (YPbPr) successfully. I went back to HDMI, lowered the bit rate for the sound, and had it up and running fine (including 720p .MKV playback). From time-to-time the screen goes blank when you've been wandering around in the menus for too long and as of now, I have not been able to make use of the USB port (always reads folder empty no matter what's connected). I have a trouble ticket in with Hauppauge, will update with results. Pros: Low price Played every video format I threw at it 1080p HDMI Output Decent WAF (Wife Approval Factor) Instinctive remote control (could be better) Intuitive on-screen menus Easy network setup Automatic video setup built into the software Cons: Unit itself could look better OSD needs polishing: speed, smoothness, fonts are big & blocky (can't really complain for the price) Has to reboot after some setting changes Screen goes blank every now and again while in the menu system No automatic audio setup Conclusion: Setup could have gone more smoothly. For the problem I had with sound over HDMI, there was nothing in the manual, on the website, or in any of the forums that gave me any insight on this problem. I literally stumbled onto the fix. The problem was likely due to the limitations of my HDTV, but the average consumer might not catch that. Although it's not important to my intended application, I'm still waiting on an answer for my USB port issue. All-in-all, for what I purchased it for, (multi-format Upnp/DLNA player w/ HDMI output) it's not horrible when you take into consideration that other comparable consumer products cost anywhere from $30 to $125 more and a custom-built PC with an HDMI output could cost upwards of $400 to $500 at a minimum. Update (12/20/2010): I've not heard anything beyond the initial response (addressing my already resolved audio over HDMI issue) from Hauppauge support. I've also discovered that the MediaMVP-HD cannot play OGM video. The format is summarily ignored by the media browser (as in doesn't even show up as unknown). Although it's not advertised as one of the supported formats, I'm still disappointed. As for .MKV playback, if you have an MKV video with multiple audio tracks, there's no way to switch betewwn the two tracks. I also contacted Hauppauge about this and have gotten no answer. Prehaps I'll have better luck after the holidays. Update (03/30/2011): Still no response from Hauppauge, I've moved on to using a PC with XBMC Live installed. The MediaMVP will still serve as a spare in my workshop, but isn't quite smooth and polished enough (software-wise) for my living room system. Eye candy is important. 7 of 9 people found the following review helpful. A great connected media player By HiDef kid I've had a Hauppage HD PVR for about a year now, and I've been recording my HD TV programs (I have a library of TrueBlood, Lost and Heroes) from my Fios box and burning them onto a CD for playback on my Blu-ray player in my living room. But I've wanted to just simply play the recordings back to my HD TV in the living room instead of going through the "record/burn" steps. So I picked up one of the MediaMVP-HD's. It basically did just what I wanted. I hooked up the MVP up to my HD TV set in the living room (I used HDMI to connect to my Samsung "B" series LCD TV). I have an ethernet connection in my living room, so the connection for me was pretty simple. I then scanned my network and found both my PC where the HD PVR is connected and also my laptop computer. In about 5 minutes I was able to play the HD PVR recordings from my PC to the HD TV set. I like the fast skip