4K Media Player with Remote Control, Digital MP4 Player for 8TB HDD/USB Drive/TF Card/H.265 MP4 PPT MKV AVI Support HDMI/AV/Optical Out and USB Mouse/Keyboard-HDMI up to 7.1 Surround Sound (Black)

TLDRadd a 128GB micro sd card or usb flash drive key chain for under $20 fill up with all your favorite titles, and you can take all your favorite videos, music, audio books and play it via hdmi anywhere on the planet you have power. it's a 100+ DVD disc/VHS player that fits in your back pocket for $70 or less all in no need for internet, subscriptions, accounts and doesnt stalk you....$50 plugged it in, plugged in usb drive, plays back everything pretty much flawless, a child could use and the senior crowd can too without any internet stalking, set ups, accounts, updates, tinkering. For the most part it just worksplug & play.Was an OG Xbox hacker running XBMC almost 20 years ago, used the entire wdtv line, dabbled with the pis and I tend to always have an old notebook around which is easy enough to connect via hdmi so I skipped a few generations of streamers. and I have zero desire for streaming but for a stand alone box this is it.5 stars for the price, size, and doing what it's supposed to do.If I could make changes.Power on would check sd card and boot from that.So those who like a little more customization or updates could just set up a microsd card pop it in and enjoy.If no sd card then it just boots like it normally does.An internet search for "mypin firmware" brings up a page easy enough with a file from 2020 around 500mb.Played around with it before updating worked fine before and after.Verision 16 of kodi think their on 19 by now. Didnt spend to much time on it, wish it was a little easier to update and add apps, I'm sure I could get into it but not worth the time these days just want it to work and it did.Was easy enough to just add to root of usb drive, but really didnt give any indication it was doing anything, I'm familiar to just let it be for a while, checked the status and it did change. But there was no reason to update. Maybe a system setting to load update file but 99% of people wont bother.Turned on clicking video/music didnt show any files no biggy clicked app and kodi, vlc, and an office app popped up.Thought I'd try vlc it saw files but no sound thought oh boy, clicked app again selected kodi and it played back everything fine. I use a projector.Theres options to have it automatically start playing that are easy enough.Some might complain about some of the apps not working but it 3 button pushes its playing fine, scrolls thru titles fast, app and back button tend to get a user where the need so I'd be comfotable gifting to older relatives or kids.Small footprint microsd cards and usb drives are less than 20 bucks, load em up, store away and go.The Blue Laser Beam is like the luxor in vegas and i'll never understand why pretty much all electronics need to light up a room when powered off but that's what black nail polish is for, covered up the light and other spots it leaks and remote still works.Doesn't come with hdmi or batteries, but I have plenty I use a small 1ft one for this.It came with an extension for ir remote, some old school red and yellow cables and a basic remote.Would and will buy again. Great travel companion, for hotels, projectors, super portable, user froendly, and if it gets lost or stolen no biggy it so cheap.Would love physical buttons on these type of products nothing fancy but redundency for a lost or broke remote, a power button and a way to scroll or select.Maybe another micro sd card slot, it has 2 usb slots, and a file manager so it could double dose as a micro sdcard /usb drive clonerAll 1%er requests but a few tweaks could make this a killer product.Old wdtv is a good comparison expcept this box scrolls thru titles a lot faster. I havent tried with my big drives, I like to use those for serious back up, keep a few usb drives / sd cards loaded and you can carry hundreds of movies/ thousands of albums ready to plug and play anywhere you goTLDRadd a 128GB micro sd card or usb flash drive key chain for under $20 fill up with all your favorite titles, and you can take all your favorite videos, music, audio books and play it via hdmi anywhere on the planet you have power. it's a 100+ DVD disc/VHS player that fits in your back pocket for $70 or less all in no need for internet, subscriptions, accounts and doesnt stalk you....

My Roku Ultra has a media player but the video formats it plays are limited. My Blu-ray also has a media player but the remote is tiny. So I purchased this unit. It took me a bit to get it set up, because I'm running it through my receiver. Most items that I plugged into it are plug and play. I had to go into the HDMI assign mode with this unit. Once I did, it was recognized and worked great. I have set the sound out on the receiver to surround. It has an auto detect mode, so if you run a video with mono or stereo or 7.1 surround it will automatically adjust. This unit doesn't seem to trigger the automatic audio out. So I defaulted to surround and it sounds great. So far this has played every format I have run through it. Even TS/VOB files. I'm very happy with my purchase. The interface is pretty easy to use. The physical size is small so it's footprint on my entertainment center is manageable. And it doesn't get too hot. The remote buttons are a nice size, I do wish it was slightly thicker, so that it fit in my hand a bit better. One strange side note, some of the buttons on the remote, power up and open the disc tray on my Blu-ray. But I would defiantly purchase again. Update: I had some issues with video locking up while the audio kept playing, or the audio and video getting out of sync. I discovered if you go into the Apps folder you can use KODI or VLC players. So far the KODI player works better than the stock MPIN player. I also like that KODI has a bookmark feature, so that if you need to stop watching, you can bookmark where you stopped and then pick up where you left off.

I have 5TB hard drives containing MP4 formatted home videos. There are over 500 directories and 1000 video files on the hard drive. I normally play the videos from a Windows or Chromebook laptop connected to a TV. I had to provide a Chromebook to family members to play the videos on their TV but it is rather difficult for them since they are non-technical users. I started researching other options and found that most media players and Blu-Ray players can handle a small number of files but cannot handle large drives, a large number of files, or a variety of video formats. This media player gives you the ability to easily play a large number of various video files from large hard drives without a laptop. By simply connecting the player to the TV and connecting the hard drive to the player, I was able to play almost all the video files. Using the interface, it takes a few seconds to open the root directory since it contains over 500 sub-directories but that is not unreasonable. All the directories appear and it is easy to use the remote to navigate to any directory and subsequent sub-directories. As a few reviewers have mentioned, using the File Manager instead of the Video application gives you the ability to back out to the previous directory at all levels. The remote works well enough for controlling the playback of each video. I don’t have a problem with FF, REW, etc. The MP4 video files range in size from 2GB to 20GB. All files up to 15GB play great but I have a problem playing video files larger than 15GB. The video doesn’t play after approximately two and a half hours (02:28). The documentation indicates the player should play files this large. Mypin support was initially responsive but did not provide a solution for the problem.I experienced one other problem. After disconnecting my hard drive from the media player and reconnecting it to my Windows 10 laptop, the following Windows error message appears: ‘There is a problem with this drive. Scan the drive now and fix it’. Whether I choose to ‘continue without scanning’ or ‘Scan the drive now and fix it’, all the files on the drive were available and playable. This message has been more of a nuisance rather than the drive actually being corrupted and requiring a re-format. The media player created three directories on the hard drive – Android, BUDA, and LOST.DIR. I assume since Windows didn’t create these directories it may be flagging that there is a problem with the drive. When I reported the problem to Mypin support they responded that it is a known bug but there wasn’t a solution (as of DEC 2022). They also responded that it should not damage the hard drive or USB flash drive.Summary: This media player is a great option for playing videos from large external hard drives. You can play the videos on any TV at home or any other location without worrying about using a laptop. It is especially useful for non-technical users. My extended family members love it. I really wanted to rate it with five stars but dropped to four stars because of the two problems I described. Overall, it is a great product.