MyGica ATV510B Enjoy TV

Join the community - in the OCAU Forums! Date  19th December 2013 Author  FearTec Editor  James "Agg" Rolfe Manufacturer  MyGica Vendor  Urban Digital Media Audio / Video Playback, Add-Ons, Conclusions Browsing Audio: Once you have connected to some windows shares you can easily browse the folders. Browsing albums is easy (these are the folder names that I created when I backed up each of my purchased CDs). Playing the best Roger Waters/Pink Floyd song ever. :) You get an awesome 3D spinning visualization when playing audio. The visualization works great in fullscreen. Viewing Pictures: I connected to my main computer's pictures folder. When thousands of files are involved, a status bar appears. Ok, Time to open high resolution pictures (something that my Zensonic Z500 media center could not do.) I have over 30,000 photos from a trip to New Zealand. All load OK. I have the MyGica connected to my high colour Dell 24” Monitor and the pictures seem a little blocky and colours are a bit washed out? The photo output seems blocky and pixely - Apple TV output seems much clearer and less jagged. The unit did load high res images quickly and it worked without crashing. Playing Videos: The ATV510B has no troubles playing videos from my JVC MTS1080i camera. Adobe premiere Pro has issues opening these so I am very pleased here. Now onto playing HD content from USB. I am using a Sandisk Cruiser 64GB memory stick - not the fastest stick on the block. To view files on the stick just open the videos menu and click on the USB stick name. I converted some Windows Media TV recordings to MP4/h264 format. Top Gear Played back ok. The BBC Frozen Planet was a bit choppy to begin with (maybe slow loading from the USB)? I loaded the Debug overlay onto the screen and the CPU was jumping from 66%to 88%. The playback did settle down after a while. Add-Ons: TV Guide sounds nice. The TV Guide Addon took about 10 minutes to download tv guides. It did not download Australian guides, from what I could see. I gave the Web Viewer addon a go. Entering URLs with the remote is painful. It did load OCAU - and the Forums. Conclusion: This is a great box with loads of support and customisation options. As with all Android devices, if you don’t like it, hack it, or expand it using Android apps via the Google Play store - although I haven't experimented with that yet. The Apple TV looks like fairly outdated when compared to this device. CONs: • No Optical Out (Audio) - my fault as my AMP is old. • No batteries included in the remote - due to an import issue that also affects other things I buy from overseas. Urban Digital Media are looking into this. • Does get a bit warm, but doesn't seem to affect stability. • The box says Enjoy TV - but I can’t watch terrestrial TV, because it has no terrestrial TV input. PROs: • Plays Audio with no problems. • Displays photos (high res with no problems). • Could play every video I threw at it. • Bucket loads of options. • Price is right - $129 currently. • Fast CPU and loads of memory. • Nice box. • Add-ons like uTorrent etc. • Tweakable. • Google Play Support. Feel free to discuss this review in this thread. << Back OCAU Main Page Select Page Page 1 - Page 2 - Page 3 -

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