The TV reception wasn’t solid, and the box continually chose the wrong audio stream, which had to be corrected manually with the remote control every time we switched channels.
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Then there’s the remote control: it’s tiny, cramped and has buttons so mushy that you don’t know whether you’ve pressed them or not, and when you do it responds sluggishly.Īnd despite the fact that some aspects work well – 1080p files streamed smoothly over the wired and wireless connections, upscaling of SD content was impressive, and general picture quality outstanding – others weren’t so good. In a quiet living room, it’s just too intrusive. We powered up the LaCie for the first time only to discover it sounds like a hairdryer. And when you turn it on, the slick presentation continues with a clean black and white design and simple menu structure. The Black Max even looks good, with its Neil Poulton-designed sharp corners, a deep obsidian finish and a blue light that pools from its underside.
And the range of supported video formats is as long as you could wish for. There’s a single DVB-T digital tuner inside, complete with support for future terrestrial HD transmissions, and high-definition output up to 1080p, with upscaling of standard definition video to 1080i.Ĭonnections are impressively broad, with component and composite inputs and outputs joined by HDMI and optical S/PDIF out, and a total of four USB ports (one host, three standard) for connecting external storage devices or a computer. But it also has 500GB of hard-disk storage – you can connect it to your PC exactly as you would a standard external hard disk.
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