Specifications

and PC. This offers options to arrange your environment in
any way you like.
Selection for the media you want to play starts at the opening
screen where you are presented with the five possible options
if you have the T430 tuner on board and only four if you don‟t.
You can select Video, Audio and Photo for playback while
HDTV takes you to the tuner section (recording / viewing) and
finally the setup we just covered above is the last selectable
option.
The actual choice of where it should grab the content is made
next and that is not as easy as one two three, unless you know
what you are doing having owned one of the previous models.
By default, the internal hard drive is always the selected target.
Once making your choice above, it will offer a list of matching
content on the hard drive (folders and files).
The upper 4 icons respectively provide connectivity to Internal
HDD, Network sources, USB1 and USB2 which are grayed out
since no USB sources are connected. Important to know for all
HDD users is NTFS is supported whilst using external hard
drives. This is not always the case with media players, but is
becoming the norm for newer models launched.
For the network, there‟s only one icon, but you can
add up to four sources in the setup menu which
will become available in little selectable cubes next
to the icon itself. In our case, we have only added one source,
so one cube is shown. Adding more sources will have
additional cubes appear.
When selecting between the available sources, the “path” for
these sources are displayed in the bottom of the interface so
you actually can see where these “cubes” that represent
network drives, will lead you to including the reference of these
being NFS or SMB sources.
Folders and files are always shown in lists. There is no (not
yet) ability to browse files using advanced cover art, album art
or similar solutions by default, although there are some good
emerging third party applications appearing that can offer this
functionality (check MPC KB forum for information). Browsing
files will show info on the file creation date and size.
All the rest of the fun needs to come from the player‟s abilities
and finesse in playback as we pretty much covered the unit as
a standalone (without tuner). After all, the majority mostly
buys the TViX for its playback abilities and that‟s where it
needs to convince us, it is the right choice!
The Remote
Since the remote control is unchanged
against the older units, we skip the
coverage of the remote. It‟s a good,
responsive remote control that we
consider as one of the better ones
delivered with media players.