Yes, the world needs an additional high-definition media streamer like it needs a shot in a foot, but never let it be said we upheld up the chance to try a earnest product simply since a foe was great. We’re articulate about a Uebo M200 –a never-before-seen box from storage association UIT — whose claim to fame is the $130 cost for everything-but-the-kitchen-sink media center functionality. Out of a box it’s your standard streamer, playing loads of media formats from memory cards, attached storage and thumbdrives, plus ShoutCast internet radio, RSS feeds as well as UPnP shares from your PC, but additionally a usual suspects Hulu, Netflix, CBS as well as some-more around PlayOn media server. Pop in a 3.5-inch SATA disk, however, and things get some-more interesting, as a box itself turns into an external hard drive, a network-attached storage device as well as even the Bittorrent customer. It additionally doesn’t hurt that the Uebo can hook up to many any party system, with not usually HDMI, member as well as composite connectors though also each standard (HD, NTSC as well as PAL) video mode, there’s a $30 optional wireless dongle, and a digital audio front includes both visual as well as coaxial jacks for outlay.

Sadly, in perform a on top of functionality isn’t as streamlined as it sounds — as is usually the case with these devices picture quality can suffer somewhat, as well as Uebo’s GUI has the face usually the mom could love. While the device admirably played a vast majority of one editor’s anime song video collection (though it stumbled over XviD as well as Sorenson Video 3), classification by nested menus to get to our calm was the ruin of a duty. PlayOn as well as Bittorrent seemed to work, yet their devious implementation left much to be preferred, with the former usually accessible by a deep dive of a UPnP menu, as well as the latter requiring torrent trackers to be uploaded from a apart PC using a web customer. We had a couple of crashes when testing a device, as well, including a Bittorrent-related one where a Uebo completely stopped responding to input, though the majority of the time we enjoyed HD as well as SD content upon the fairly capable small TV server. All in all, it’s not a most polished product and shouldn’t distract you from popcorn-eating elephants in the room, but if you’re looking for the cheaper alternative it’s tough to disagree with Uebo. Take a brief debate with the art studio next, or strike up a more coverage couple for the full datasheet. Uebo M200 media streamer unboxing as well as hands-on