The brite-View CinemaTube Mini is media player stocked full with connections, including HDMI, composite, optical out, two USB ports, and an eSATA port. The CinemaGo variation of this device adds on a USB Wireless-N adapter. While the CinemaTube supports the typical FAT32 and NTFS drive formats, it also has HFS+ support for you Mac users out there, though it should be noted that this support is “read-only”, so some of the features of the device that require writing to an attached drive would be unavailable on those drives.

Video and audio support is right on. The CinemaTube Mini played everything I threw at it with great quality. The only exceptions involved the APE lossless audio codec (it’s not a very well-known codec, so I don’t fault it for that) and a few different QuickTime files. Practically every set top player I’ve tried them on has choked, so I’ll chalk it up to a format that is either just not compatible all around, or involves a part of the codec that manufacturers are not privy to. Even problematic MKVs that I had played through went without any hitch whatsoever, which leads me to believe that the issues I’ve had with them on other players is more of a codec support issue than actual problems with the encoded video information itself.



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