Micca EP950 1080p 3D Digital Media Player with Gigabit Network, USB 3.0, and 3.5" HDD Drive Bay (Realtek 1186)

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Price: $169.95    

Product Feature

• Universal media player, powerful enough to handle high bitrate 1080p Full-HD videos!
• Supports numerous audio formats including Dolby Digital, TrueHD, DTS, DTS-MA/HR and DTS Downmix
• Support for large hard drives of 3TB in capacity or larger
• Ultra fast Gigabit LAN and optional 802.11n WiFi networking capabilities
• Play media files from other network devices, NAS and UPnP media servers

Product Description

The EP950 is a premium digital media player designed to easily organize and playback HD videos, music or photos from USB drives of any size. With robust network connectivity and optional WiFi wireless networking, the EP950 can play streamed media content over the network or the Internet. Whether playing heart warming home videos in the comfort of a living room or rendering a jaw dropping blockbuster movie experience in a home theater, the EP950 is exceptionally versatile, making it a great choice for all media playback needs.

Next-Gen Powerful
When it comes to performance and features, the EP950 excels in all the important areas. It incorporates the powerful Realtek RTD1186 processor for stunning video quality and fluid playback at up to 1080p full HD resolution. Its Gigabit Ethernet LAN port is up to 10 times faster than the network on previous generation players. For unmatched storage capacity, the EP950 has an internal 3.5" drive bay and supports hard drives larger than 2TB.

Gigabit LAN and 802.11n WiFi Ready
The EP950 has a built-in 1000mbps Gigabit LAN connection and there is an available optional 802.11n WiFi dongle. The EP950 uses the network not just for streaming media files, but also for sharing media files to other devices.

A Universal Media Player
The EP950 provides flawless playback for all of today's popular media file formats up to 1080p - no more guessing whether a video you just got is supported!
- Video Files - BDMV, BD-ISO, MKV, MOV, WMV, TS, M2TS, MTS, FLV, AVI, DVD-ISO, VOB, M2P, MP4, MPG, DAT, ASF, TP TRP, SWF
- Video Codecs - H.264/AVC, MPEG1/2/4, DivX/Xvid, VC-1, and RMVB
- Audio Formats - DTS/DTS-HD MA, Dolby AC3/True-HD, LPCM, ADPCM, FLAC, APE, LC-AAC, HE-AAC, MP3, OGG, WAM, WAV
- Image Formats - JPG, GIF, PNG, BMP, and TIF

What's Included:
- EP950 Player
- IR Remote Control
- 110-240V AC Adapter
- AV cables
- User's Manual

Micca EP950 1080p 3D Digital Media Player with Gigabit Network, USB 3.0, and 3.5" HDD Drive Bay (Realtek 1186) Review

I went through quite a few media players recently. Almost gave up on idea of finding the one that plays full HD rips flawlessly. The perfect player for me would be one that is reasonably priced and plays direct (m2ts) HD rip with 24p and HD audio over network from NAS, 3D is welcome too. 1185 based players were close, but were dropping audio during playback, occasionally. Popcorn Hour A-300 was horrible bug fested player. Dune HD TV-101 was almost there, but could not hold the candle with HD Audio and does not play DivX encoded video.

This player based on 1186 Realtek chip and handles full HD video and HD audio flawlessly:
24p - check
Audio sync - check
TrueHD - check
DTS-HD - check
Subtitles -check
3D-SBS/TOB - check (activate from player popup menu during playback, once in 3D - player's playback menu and info popups would work in 3D mode)
3D-SBS/TOB SRT subtitles - check
SMB shares - check
NFS shares - check
UPNP streaming - check

It plays iso and BD folder fine. Menus sometimes not shown - plays movie straight.

I tried 3D iso - some will show menu, some not. You can configure player to prompt for iso playback mode. "Direct play" plays 3D movie version correctly on every iso I tried so far. When "BD Lite" or "BD 1.0" used it may not show 3D movie for playback or just plays 3D movie straight. TV switched to 3D mode automatically. I am sure there will be few 3D bugs there, but it is not critical for me. Besides, my preferred method is "Direct play" and it works correctly.

As far as non 3D player - it works flawlessly and quite impressive for brand new product, just released . No fw updates yet published, but I feel like not updating fw, because I do not have any issues yet.

Thanks to Realtek and Micca for making it available. Job well done!

At the moment, this player will wipe floor with the likes of Dune-HD or Popcorn Hour. Not to mention full 3D support.

Time has come to retire WDTV HD Live. It took a while, WDTV is quite a player, but stable only with older fw 1.03.49 and older... With WDTV, it gets more and more crippled as a player with every fw update.

Issues found:
1) Rare audio dropouts with DTS-768Kbps audio tracks. It was present in earlier Realtek based players as well. This is very rarely used DTS bit rate, usually present in SkyHD movies. The remedy is simple - just convert it to more common DTS-1536Kbps and problem solved.
2) Some times it takes a few tries to power on the unit from remote. It works ok, but with very short power button press on remote. Looks more like a jitter, long press would turn unit on and then immediately off, so it looks like unit never turned on. This is being like this for many Realtek based players. Front panel on/off touch button works fine all the time.
3) Some AVC BD rips could cause a micro stutter in 24P mode, disabling 24P mode corrects the issue.
4) Only one movie with DTS-HD Master causes micro audio drops every 10 mins or so (nothing special about this movie, may be audio encoding issue, not the player). Remediation: Set "Deep Color"=off. I consider it as useless option anyway. I never encountered movie encoded with more than 8-bit color, increasing HDMI data bandwidth by 25/50% with no benefits.

Note, it is "micro" issues, most folks may not even notice it.

Still, very small issue considering product is just released.

Good Luck!

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