Author Topic: Egreat NMTs (Read 224436 times)

toys4geeks · « **Reply #1350 on:** Jan 24, 2011 at 11:58 AM »

Hi S7A is cool have you seen S800 ? My S7A + S800 shipment is coming in late Feb, pero here's my 2 cents:
a. if you plan to play BDROM (original), only S800 Sigma8643 can play original BD.
on DISK formatting -- Best to use NMT to format it. Its sigma so likely it will have extra partition for its software, (not sure yet coz i have yet to get my S7A).
on DISK RPMs - 5400 rpm and 7200 rpm does not matter much with NMT players, though 7200 RPM generates more heat from experience. I stick with Caviar greens not just for its low cost, , but its more than adequate to keep up with the NMT disk data transfers, but if you foresee more users accessing data over the LAN or WLAN, consider the 7200 RPM

Quote from: gutchy on Jan 22, 2011 at 03:58 PM

guys I need some inputs regarding 2TB HDD compatibility with Egreat mine is S7A ultra baka kasi may certain model na nde ma-detect or nde ma-format ng Egreat planning to buy tomorrow. Any brand/model ba that I need to consider? do 5400RPM or 7200RPM makes any difference in watching HD movies? ito ung mga pinagpipilian ko lahat ay 2TB:

for 5400RPM

Samsung ECO green F3/F4
Seagate bararcuda LP
WD caviar green

for 7200RPM

Hitachi Deskstar HD32000
WD caviar black
Seagate Barracuda XT

and another noob question regarding HDD, do I need to format it using PC or NMT?
or plug and play na ung mga HDD? sorry newbie lng ..

Thanks a lot...

gutchy · « **Reply #1351 on:** Jan 24, 2011 at 01:51 PM »

sir toys4geeks maraming salamat.. Caviar Green nga yung nakuha ko kahapon
I went back to Egreat Distributor yesterday and they helped me to buy my HDD
they even loaded it with 2TB of Bluray ripped movies at para sure na mag-work ung hard disk
pina-test ko sa S7A nila na nka demo...

You can also check Egreat S2 model with Sigma8643 chip and can play original bluray
very thick alum chasis with gold plated RCA well built. Almost same price ng S7A ultra.

gutchy · « **Reply #1352 on:** Jan 25, 2011 at 02:13 PM »

@sir toys4geeks another question nasubukan mo naba mag connect ng 2 x 2TB HDD(JBOD) external using eSATA+ 2TB internal HDD sa Egreat R200 a total of 6TB HDD ?.. I'm planning to add 2x2TB(JBOD mode)
but want to ask first kung magkaka-problema.. Thanks.

toys4geeks · « **Reply #1353 on:** Jan 26, 2011 at 07:13 PM »

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S800 -

7.1 pass-through HDMI network media player
playback Bluray disk

S7A -

S7A，first HD media player with analogy 5.1 output
and HD audio 7.1 digital output

S2 -

internal 3.5” mobile rack, HD media player,
playback Bluray disk,

S5A (a1080) -

,
internal 2.5” mobile rack, playback Bluray disk,
now with with USB3.0 slave

was told S7A cannot play original BDROM (It is sigma chip but SigmaDesigns SMP8655 @ 500MHz basic frequency, while other models are SMP8643 CPU, 512MB DDR2, 256MB Nand Flash.
note S800 and S7A will come in 3 flavors -- standard, Pro (w/Wifi), and Ultra (w/Wifi + 3D)
I ordered 3 S800 Ultra, but was told 3D will be out after chinese new year. I saved one for a PDVD and the 2 i need to keep for lab. also ordered egreat BDROM, slim that is USB.

the two cake box work with 2.5" (1080A) and 3.5" respectively, with the (1080A) with USB 3.0 host (great for transferring from PC to 1080

toys4geeks · « **Reply #1354 on:** Jan 26, 2011 at 07:21 PM »

wala atang eSATA si S7A mo. so USB 2.0 ang bagsak mo.

I have a dual dock 2 x SATA tray, this, I can try tomorrow 1.5TB and 2.0 TB.
I also have a 4100 Thecus pero dont have enough disks (1 x 2TB bilis kasi mabenta si R200 eh) to reach 3 x 2TB, JBOD).

Quote from: gutchy on Jan 25, 2011 at 02:13 PM

@sir toys4geeks another question nasubukan mo naba mag connect ng 2 x 2TB HDD(JBOD) external using eSATA+ 2TB internal HDD sa Egreat R200 a total of 6TB HDD ?.. I'm planning to add 2x2TB(JBOD mode)
but want to ask first kung magkaka-problema.. Thanks.

Clondalkin · « **Reply #1355 on:** Jan 27, 2011 at 07:17 AM »

Question:

Most of the internal HDDs are/were formatted to NTFS and then filled with all sorts of files. So if anyone wants to install such NTFS HDDs internally, will it work right away or dapat reformatted by Egreat muna?

Players like Mede8er and PCH can work with NTFS drives internally.

Thanks

gutchy · « **Reply #1356 on:** Jan 27, 2011 at 10:09 AM »

Quote from: toys4geeks on Jan 26, 2011 at 07:21 PM

wala atang eSATA si S7A mo. so USB 2.0 ang bagsak mo.

I think I read somewhere sa net that you can use eSATA to bare SATA connector as long as both have it's own power so yung data pins lang ang gagamitin. I don't know kung possible nga ang ganitong connection. Using USB kasi ay may konting stuttering lalo sa mga malalaking file pero no problem naman with bare SATA even 40+Gb TS files. kahit i-fast forward, jump to a certain part ng movie or using a time search very quick yung response ng unit kaya preferred ko tlaga ang SATA connection than USB. Plan ko kasi kung possible ang ganitong connection then I will buy ung 2 bay 3.5 SATA enclosure with total of 4TB (JBOD) or kung hinde then hassle ung pag palit-palit ng HDD..

toys4geeks · « **Reply #1357 on:** Jan 27, 2011 at 01:05 PM »

A: it work right away.
I speak from Egreat R200 Pro experience(not sure on other models).
The R200 sees EXT2/EXT3 fs from my Suno HD NMT & an old disk from PCH C200, which is a bonus when connecting to its bare sata as 2nd drive. For mede8er disks, i reclaim space from m8er partitions using Win7 disk admin.

Quote from: Clondalkin on Jan 27, 2011 at 07:17 AM

Question:
Most of the internal HDDs are/were formatted to NTFS and then filled with all sorts of files. So if anyone wants to install such NTFS HDDs internally, will it work right away or dapat reformatted by Egreat muna?

Players like Mede8er and PCH can work with NTFS drives internally.

Thanks

toys4geeks · « **Reply #1358 on:** Jan 28, 2011 at 04:39 AM »

the bare sata can accomodate 1 drive sa rear, so you'll have max 2 disks(internal and bare SATA) that's a hard limit. if you need more space, you might consider:

upgrading your disks to bigger ones and transfer contents (i know this is a pain).
use USB (S7A is USB2.0 ) but you are right, it will stutter on your 40GB files,
use LAN (100 MBPS), might be a good alternative over USB, but you need to your disk dock/enclosure to support LAN.

note eSATA typically has the same limitation, unless :
--- a. both disk enclosure eSATA and HD media player's eSATA support port multiplier function(that which makes it see the other drives in your dock, or disk. more lit if you need in www.addonics.com.)
or
----b. if your disk enclosure supports RAID-JBOD over eSATA then HD media player is ok to see 1 device.

i know its a mouthful above, i hope things work your way.

Quote from: gutchy on Jan 27, 2011 at 10:09 AM

I think I read somewhere sa net that you can use eSATA to bare SATA connector as long as both have it's own power so yung data pins lang ang gagamitin. I don't know kung possible nga ang ganitong connection. Using USB kasi ay may konting stuttering lalo sa mga malalaking file pero no problem naman with bare SATA even 40+Gb TS files. kahit i-fast forward, jump to a certain part ng movie or using a time search very quick yung response ng unit kaya preferred ko tlaga ang SATA connection than USB. Plan ko kasi kung possible ang ganitong connection then I will buy ung 2 bay 3.5 SATA enclosure with total of 4TB (JBOD) or kung hinde then hassle ung pag palit-palit ng HDD..

toys4geeks · « **Reply #1359 on:** Jan 28, 2011 at 04:53 AM »

from R200 Pro experience, Egreat releases firmwares as needed. One thing good about the newer ones is it covered all the codec issues given egreat's years experience ahead of the other china players. i would think they address non-codecs since they sorted those back in their past.

While others brands are just catching up on their codec issues, egreat tackles the easier part of non-codec concerns.

That's the thing with sw development... you need to capture the experiences and put this into the latest and greatest firmware of all time, now that's ideal... but even with microsoft it never happens, with their moneys on R&D to boot.
IMHO -- Machines you can tame, (that's why they are dime a dozen, and cost is flat now) but software, well its always a work in progress.

INFO: R200 Pro firmware (1.00.39) now available 1.00.35 -> 1.00.39

Quote from: Clondalkin on Jan 18, 2011 at 06:55 AM

Well they were all provided the same SDK by Sigma. Based on my 31B experience, it was clear that Egreat's FW developers were totally inferior compared to those of Popcorn and Tvix. Para silang tubero na imbes na palitan yung buong pipe na puno ng butas everywhere, vinulca-seal paisa-isa, but everytime a hole was patched, the other holes kept on bursting - tapos iniwan nalang na ganon in the end. Kung pelikula ay comedy ang dating, pero kung trabaho ang usapan ay stupidity. And imbes na ayusin yung pinaka-malaking butas, nag-concentrate sa mga pinholes. So jack of all trades (on paper) but master of nothing at all. The 31B was a very frustrating device.

So best wishes sa mga bagong Egreat players in terms of FW support and upgrades

BTW, make sure to keep a back-up of all FWs released by Egreat. I still have about 5 FW versions of the 31B na pa-palit-palit depende sa pinanood ko. Parang kotse na may sports mode, economy mode at standard mode depende sa driving conditions. Hehehe. Oh well.

gutchy · « **Reply #1360 on:** Jan 28, 2011 at 10:42 AM »

@ toys4geeks

salamat brader sa mga info..

Chinese new year na next week so mahaba-haba bkasyon ko dito.

a good chance para mag try ng different config ng set up..

toys4geeks · « **Reply #1361 on:** Jan 28, 2011 at 12:55 PM »

i meant copying disk to disk using R200 vs. a PC saves power bill, hands down but if you will do massive copying on a big TV, power consumed is about the same.

The R200 is my main player for now, just for the mere convenience of plugging and unplugging disks. I find R200 mobile disk trays a must have coz of my # disks (small ones < .5TB or less). R200 is good value for money given its SQ and PQ. I cant wait to see how s800 is (sigma chip same as PCH-C200)

I still have a 500x, but i just got tired of flipping it over, connect a disk, and play. I just placed a few nice videos found it a home in my son's room. Nice with M500x is the coverart and about jpegs, but with R200's autopreview movie feature, i'm good.

mede8er 500x comes complete with cables and bag, which is nice for 1st time users but most often cables you wont need if you have an old setup, may bump the sticker price up a bit.

Quote from: Conan on Jan 14, 2011 at 06:44 AM

Please clarify what exactly does this mean. What are the improvements on the Mede8er 500X as you said that you switched from it to the Egreat?

frootloops · « **Reply #1362 on:** Jan 28, 2011 at 01:03 PM »

Got my R200 today..many thanks toys4geeks for the prompt and hassle free transaction. Time to torture test this unit.

Clondalkin · « **Reply #1363 on:** Jan 28, 2011 at 01:19 PM »

Eto hindi kwentong barbero.

I've known of 3 incidents where an HDD that was internally connected to the Egreat mysteriously lost all data. I personally restored one of those HDD.

What does anyone say about this?

In my experience, although the internal drive is meant to be used, the safest way to connect HDD is via external route. And sorry, I would be scared as hell to use an NMT for file management.

toys4geeks · « **Reply #1364 on:** Jan 28, 2011 at 01:25 PM »

ang pogi ni R200 di ba? great pictures frootloops;D (great pictures below!).

Clondalkin · « **Reply #1365 on:** Jan 28, 2011 at 01:40 PM »

Quote from: frootloops on Jan 28, 2011 at 01:03 PM

Got my R200 today..many thanks toys4geeks for the prompt and hassle free transaction. Time to torture test this unit.

Ii ne....ii ne...

First test should be file visibility test Bro.

Baka ma forced retirement si Egreat 31A bigla?

Kailangan ma-test ang pure BD rips for the sake of Science (and my future NMT purchase).

cHess · « **Reply #1366 on:** Jan 28, 2011 at 01:42 PM »

Quote from: Clondalkin on Jan 28, 2011 at 01:19 PM

Eto hindi kwentong barbero.

I've known of 3 incidents where an HDD that was internally connected to the Egreat mysteriously lost all data. I personally restored one of those HDD.

What does anyone say about this?

In my experience, although the internal drive is meant to be used, the safest way to connect HDD is via external route. And sorry, I would be scared as hell to use an NMT for file management.

I can attest to sir Allan. I am one of the owners who lost all my HD files. Very very sad...

frootloops · « **Reply #1367 on:** Jan 28, 2011 at 01:48 PM »

Quote from: toys4geeks on Jan 28, 2011 at 01:25 PM

ang pogi ni R200 di ba? great pictures frootloops;D (great pictures below!).

pwedeng pwede!

Quote from: Clondalkin on Jan 28, 2011 at 01:40 PM

Ii ne....ii ne...

First test should be file visibility test Bro.

Baka ma forced retirement si Egreat 31A bigla?

Kailangan ma-test ang pure BD rips for the sake of Science (and my future NMT purchase).

Tindi ng tawa ko sa file visibility bro!

Let's see if my 31A will beat the R200 when your plants arrive, or should I say if the R200 can beat my magical 31A.

toys4geeks · « **Reply #1368 on:** Jan 28, 2011 at 05:41 PM »

Ouch! anong model at what was last done before your disk lost its contents?

That very same thing happened when i asked someone to move my suno HD (ext fs) to the mede8er's new disk, not sure what happened to my 1.5TB HD movies but for a few months it was playing it well with 500x.

I took it to the fellow who sold me the 500x (preowned, and was happy to reload it from my ext fs old disk), i lost my TV series 3 months of download though. Asar talaga.

To think dapat secure na siya sa mede8er kasi walang handling involved sa disk, screwed shut. Was it static discharge? dont think bad disk kasi i moved that same disk to my R200 since October and been playing since, including downloads ng series.

I swore never again, kaya I got Thecus 4100 pro,andun sa raid yung personal pictures and home videos and favorite 1080p.

Quote from: cHess on Jan 28, 2011 at 01:42 PM

I can attest to sir Allan. I am one of the owners who lost all my HD files. Very very sad...

cHess · « **Reply #1369 on:** Jan 28, 2011 at 06:15 PM »

Sir, it was 31B egreat. 1TB HDD installed internal. HDD was formatted by egreat. Was watching HD movie then the screen blocked out(Black screen). I reset the unit pero wala na madetect. I already forgot the screen display. Anyways, when I checked the HD files. I can't access anymore. So, I reformat the HDD. Then copied another set of HD files. Since then, I connect my HDD via USB. No problems encountered via USB connection.

Sir toys4geeks you got pm.

gutchy · « **Reply #1370 on:** Jan 29, 2011 at 10:09 AM »

took some pics of my S7A..

toys4geeks · « **Reply #1371 on:** Jan 29, 2011 at 11:04 AM »

cool! thanks for sharing.

the egreat remote is better contoured and with LED, (reserved for the sigma highend i guess).

Did you get a chance to try it with a USB BDROM? I know its not a full featured BDROM player(that's in the S800) but it should be able to do BD simple folders and play.

CMac · « **Reply #1372 on:** Jan 29, 2011 at 11:11 AM »

Quote from: Clondalkin on Jan 28, 2011 at 01:19 PM

Eto hindi kwentong barbero.

I've known of 3 incidents where an HDD that was internally connected to the Egreat mysteriously lost all data. I personally restored one of those HDD.

In my experience, although the internal drive is meant to be used, the safest way to connect HDD is via external route. And sorry, I would be scared as hell to use an NMT for file management.

Are you just referring to the egreat or even other nmt's that make use of internal storage?

gutchy · « **Reply #1373 on:** Jan 29, 2011 at 12:00 PM »

Quote from: toys4geeks on Jan 29, 2011 at 11:04 AM

cool! thanks for sharing.

the egreat remote is better contoured and with LED, (reserved for the sigma highend i guess).

Did you get a chance to try it with a USB BDROM? I know its not a full featured BDROM player(that's in the S800) but it should be able to do BD simple folders and play.

Yeah the remote is really (e)great..

I remember they tested dun sa shop they have the external BDROM but didnt pay much attention because at that moment medyo gulo pa isip ko between S2 and S7A..

toys4geeks · « **Reply #1374 on:** Jan 29, 2011 at 12:17 PM »

nice coverwall, siya na automagically nag fetch based on name or folder? kasi si NMJ ng popcorn ko, i had to painstakingly rename the files to discover properly off IMDB and then bring down the cover art and about jpegs.

Quote from: gutchy on Jan 29, 2011 at 12:00 PM

Yeah the remote is really (e)great..

I remember they tested dun sa shop they have the external BDROM but didnt pay much attention because at that moment medyo gulo pa isip ko between S2 and S7A..

gutchy · « **Reply #1375 on:** Jan 29, 2011 at 02:01 PM »

yup!..automatic fetch based on folder no need to rename..

ung HDD automatic din mag-eject when you open the tray so very convinient naman magpalit..

ngayon sinusubukan ko ung network sharing..

toys4geeks · « **Reply #1376 on:** Jan 29, 2011 at 08:37 PM »

looks like my PCHC200 will hit the preowned market soon. Id go for S800

" 8)naiinggit ako sa painless coverwall ng S7A unit ni gutchy"

scifi-fan · « **Reply #1377 on:** Jan 29, 2011 at 09:22 PM »

PM me if you do.

I can use another C200 for beta testing new firmware. It's easier for me to have one unit running beta and another having public firmware to easily test for changes.

cHess · « **Reply #1378 on:** Feb 03, 2011 at 10:21 PM »

Here's my new R6B, Thanks to Sir Jim aka toys4geeks for a very nice price.
Used: USB DVD - ok can watch DVD movies with menu
Tried BD ISO - ok with simple menu.

REMARKS: Very solid Full HD media player. Compared to my xtreamer sidewinder and egreat 31b much faster boot and scan time.
Boot time = 3s promise ang bilis.
Size = very portable. Ang liit at hindi maiinit kahit walang fan, considering i watched for 6 hours straight walang kainit init.
Ang ganda ng aluminum casing.
PQ and AQ same with my Egreat 31b SUPERB!

Some Pics: Sorry for the poor quality pics

Contents

Back view

Front view

Side View

Sample Pics

Alfie · « **Reply #1379 on:** Feb 04, 2011 at 06:20 AM »

He he iyun' info katulad nang H1055 nang Kaiboer.

Pareho din' kaya ang firmware?