Falcon MVIX MX-780HD media player

An HD Ready media player, the compact Linux-based MX-780HD can store media locally on a self-installed HDD. This isn’t included, but FAT32/NTFS-formatted drives of up to 1 terabyte in size are supported.

After the drive is installed, it can be plugged into a PC via USB; it’s then recognised as an external drive and your media can be copied to it. However, the MX-780HD is also a networkable media player – built-in are wi-fi and a 100Mbps LAN port. It doesn’t support UPNP/DLNA compliant servers (instead it seeks out shared folders on a PC).

The Falcon offers plenty of AV connectivity – component, HDMI, composite, S-video, analogue stereo and coaxial/optical digital – plus three USB 2.0 ports, two of which operate in ‘host’ mode (for playback from external memory devices).

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