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The MU-A7000AV is an all-in-one unit that can store pictures, music and videos and can be used as a backup unit around the home by anyone with a network connection.
Media sharing in the home is no longer considered a novelty or something reserved only for those who are into gadgets and such. It’s now part of everyday life and streaming media to various places in the house has become the order of the day - be it music, videos, photos or simply sharing files.
The AirLive MU-A7000AV is one such product that facilitates all of the above from a central place. Media players have been around for a while now and the MU-A7000AV is one of the newer ones, which support several popular file formats for playback on TV (sadly WMA playback is absent). This is a great convenience as it means one no longer has to sit and burn DVDs so that they can be played back on a DVD player.
Files can be copied to the AirLive via the local network or the USB 2.0 connection. The MU-A7000AV can stream videos, pictures and music to multiple sources speedily, provided that not too many devices are connected to the unit. For the regular household this shouldn’t be a problem as the unit can stream two video files while playing a third on a TV.
This performance is particularly impressive considering that the hard drive used in the MU-A7000AV is a run-of-the mill SATA drive.
On its own, the AirLive MU-A7000AV is just a regular media player, but plugged into a wireless network hub it becomes the centre of in-home entertainment, able to cater to everyone at the same time.
The built-in one-touch backup feature is useful, as it has the added advantage of making your backup or files available for others to use should you choose to. If not, you can use a password to lock folders and make them inaccessible to others whom you may share the device with.
As for the media-player interface, the MU-A7000AV’s is adequate with icons for a generic folder view, videos, music or pictures. There isn’t much to fault this unit on apart from its inability to read video files stored on an NTFS partition. This is particularly annoying if you wish to use the unit with large-capacity hard drives that are not supported by the FAT32 file system.
Other than that, the MU-A7000AV is an excellent unit, even if you’re not in the market for a media player.
Media sharing in the home is no longer considered a novelty or something reserved only for those who are into gadgets and such. It’s now part of everyday life and streaming media to various places in the house has become the order of the day - be it music, videos, photos or simply sharing files.
The AirLive MU-A7000AV is one such product that facilitates all of the above from a central place. Media players have been around for a while now and the MU-A7000AV is one of the newer ones, which support several popular file formats for playback on TV (sadly WMA playback is absent). This is a great convenience as it means one no longer has to sit and burn DVDs so that they can be played back on a DVD player.
Files can be copied to the AirLive via the local network or the USB 2.0 connection. The MU-A7000AV can stream videos, pictures and music to multiple sources speedily, provided that not too many devices are connected to the unit. For the regular household this shouldn’t be a problem as the unit can stream two video files while playing a third on a TV.
This performance is particularly impressive considering that the hard drive used in the MU-A7000AV is a run-of-the mill SATA drive.
On its own, the AirLive MU-A7000AV is just a regular media player, but plugged into a wireless network hub it becomes the centre of in-home entertainment, able to cater to everyone at the same time.
The built-in one-touch backup feature is useful, as it has the added advantage of making your backup or files available for others to use should you choose to. If not, you can use a password to lock folders and make them inaccessible to others whom you may share the device with.
As for the media-player interface, the MU-A7000AV’s is adequate with icons for a generic folder view, videos, music or pictures. There isn’t much to fault this unit on apart from its inability to read video files stored on an NTFS partition. This is particularly annoying if you wish to use the unit with large-capacity hard drives that are not supported by the FAT32 file system.
Other than that, the MU-A7000AV is an excellent unit, even if you’re not in the market for a media player.