Specifications

We also miss a method to jump thru pages like „SKIP‟ should
load the next page instead of the next song as pressing SKIP
or pressing arrow down do the same thing making it useless
being assigned twice at the cost of a function like browsing
pages.
Errors that show the underlying finesse of DViCo coding in
music playback promptly replies „Subtitles None‟ on the load of
music files.
The absolute basics like repeat track and repeat all are
available as is shuffle On/Off toggle. Supported file formats
are the usual MP3 files, ogg, ac3, DTS, wma (not wma lossless
as it chokes on them) and FLAC (latest version not supported
yet). The mp4 format is seen as video.
Picture showcase
I‟m afraid for pictures we will have to come to the same
conclusion that DViCo can‟t get a grip on what is expected in
the minimum of what basic functionality is expected of a player
for the price range it is in. It is clear video is the only point of
concentration again for the M-6500A. This is the same for
most media players by the way but some at least offer extra‟s
where there is nothing to find here and additionally a lot are
far cheaper than the M6500a.
Between loading pictures there‟s a gap of 5 seconds (2MB
pictures loaded from NAS server) so obviously there is no pre-
loading in the background while displaying the current picture.
On slideshows, each picture that loads will display „PLAY‟ on
the OSD, along with the five seconds black gap, this disrupts
pretty much every pleasure in utilising the slideshow option not
to mention there are no transitions at all.
Zoom is progressive which is great but if used during a
slideshow it causes the slideshow to not resume unless the
user presses pause and then play. Even if you pause before
using ZOOM, a single press will not resume, so the same
procedure applies of pressing Play – Pause – Play sequence to
resume.
I must repeat myself again that the ZOOM implemented in this
way is only useful for zooming in the center of the picture.
There is no option to go left / right and that‟s a shame.
Finally, there seems no way to rotate the images at all either
(at least not by angle or arrow buttons as far as I could see).
Conclusion
It‟s too early to compare the TViX M6500a to all other different
players in the same range and come out and say DViCo is
“Gilette” (the best a man can get). At present it is definitely
not mature enough or featured enough to take a distance from
the competition. It is not delivering „any‟ extras in the range of
online content, Web radio and other extra features like on the
NMT for instance actually makes it fall behind on the feature
set.
A nice feature would be to update the firmware on-line at the
press of a button, rather than have the chore of downloading it
to you PC first then transferring it to the unit and applying it.
Some advantages are important however which include the
USB slave option but are we able to outline any other benefits
compared to the players costing only half this much? I‟m sorry,
No! Not yet! It appears that DViCo have rested on their laurels
of their previous players and have updated the hardware under
the hood but have forgot about the all important
firmware/software that drives the hardware. It is the
equivalent of putting a poor driver in a high performance