Specifications

ZOOM is progressive which is our favorite above the usual
selection like „Actual Size‟, „Fit to Screen‟ and „Pan & Scan‟.
Never the less, a combination of both would be even better.
One can toggle between „ZOOM ON‟ and use progressive scan
or „ZOOM default‟ which will return to the normal video size.
Step frame is also available but has a slight issue resulting in
half of the feature missing. You can Step Frame ahead in the
movie but not back. A further issue is when resuming after
using STEP Frame, it is a little buggy where the movie does not
resume at first. The Play/Pause button must be pressed 3
times for the movie to commence playing again. It‟s not a
major issue but collectively the few small errors combined
result in making the basic DVD playback buggy, thus meaning
that DVD playback is not completely functional. With a little
effort and attention to detail these minor bugs could be fixed
allowing for increased functionality.
SMB vs. NFS performance
Something has happened. We have noticed great improvement
with SMB shares. Utilizing SMB, playback of ISO DVD and a
good majority of HD content performed sufficiently meaning
there have been some decent changes to the SMB performance
of the media players. Not a single glitch is found in either SMB
or NFS using over 100 samples of DVD and HD files. However,
when using the NetShare application we noticed deteriorated
playback of VIDEO_TS (IFO) movies. The application seemed
to choke the flow of data. Other applications similar to
NetShare do not have this issue so we write it down to
NetShare.
HDMI Sound
Both DD and Dolby outputted fine over the HDMI interface and
off course, other supported audio codec‟s output in the same
way. The volume over HDMI compared to other outputs is
rather low in my opinion but nothing severe.
There‟s a volume control on the player that helps.
You can Enable / Disable HDMI sound from setup. The m2ts
files (blu-ray backups) played fine as far as video is concerned
and DViCo has provided support for pass through of TrueHD.
We however have no files to test this properly so we leave this
up to the public to experience and comment upon.
DVB-T Tuner
As with the M-4100 and M-5100SH series, there is the
possibility to add a DVB-T tuner and turn the player into a
recording unit. As it has been reviewed before and info can be
found online, we will not review this part of the player again.
The tuner model for the TViX M-6500A is the same as with the
M-4100SH unit, the T-430.