Playtime HV0102B Multimedia Player

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Charlyb

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Have one for +- 6 months now. Love it.
wife and I like entertaining so I have a gazillion mp3's on standby from borchelli to nirvana. "back up" movies straight onto hdd without decrompressing and don't loose any quality.
Only problem is a crappy remote and interface. Picture slides is also a bit slow. But then again I got it for music and movies.
Just a tip. get the biggest hdd you can find. I have a 250GB and its damn difficult to decide what to delete when it gets full. Even if you watched something 10 times.

there is input for an external remote , but I'm not sure how that works. i.e. where to get one that will work. Anybody that can help with that ? much appreciated.
 
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AjqNic

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scotty777 said:
well it looks like its got all the bells and whistles
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The one feature that it is lacking is a network connection, without that you'll need to cart the device to and from the PC to transfer content :(
 
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AjqNic

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scotty777 said:
lol, then get one with a network port
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Ah, didn't realise they had one (the local guys don't seem to stock them though). If the Mvix is anything to go buy, adding a network connection will double the cost.

You might also want to take a look at the Mvix as the ZionCom only supports a maximum resolution of 576p (i.e. SDTV = 720 x 576) while the Mvix supports 1,080i and 720p (i.e. HDTV).
 
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ck2aka

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Incorrect FIRMWARE version on HV0102B

Hi,

I wanted to updated my Playtime Multimedia Player to the latest version 1.28, than I noticed I have an incorrect version 1.34 on already.

How can I :

1) Reset to factoery setting, or
2) unload and reload the firmware version.

Your help will be much appreciated
 
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Fudzy

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It's a great little device, its biggest fall down is the rubbish remote control.
 
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soulman

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I'm about to buy one, what exactly is wrong with the remote control?

Has anyone had any success using a replacement remote control?
 
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supersunbird

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soulman said:
I'm about to buy one, what exactly is wrong with the remote control?

Has anyone had any success using a replacement remote control?
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The remote uses one of those flat watch type batteries, so the signal is kind of of weak.

Otherwise its a great system, I dont even have a harddrive in mine, I browse the partitions over my network.

Note: It doesnt see network shared folders over 8 characters long (much like DOS) as I had to rename my "entertainment" folder to "tainment" for example, is this issue fixed by newer firmware?
 
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GTi

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That's not a bad idea supersunbird, network and all.I do have a 160 gb HDD in mine. What model do you have supersunbird? Soulman I replied to your PM.
 
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supersunbird

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GTi said:
That's not a bad idea supersunbird, network and all.I do have a 160 gb HDD in mine. What model do you have supersunbird? Soulman I replied to your PM.
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I'll check when I get home. I think its the one above the basic one but below the one with the onboard LED or whatever screen.
 
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boramk

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Does the Zioncom support 1080i?
It says so in all the descrpitions, but as one poster as, only 576i?
 
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