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Hewlett-Packard DMR-EN5000 Digital Media Receiver for Windows PCs
from: Hewlett Packard

Used Price: $35.99
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Binding: Electronics
Brand: Hewlett-Packard
EAN: 0808736452335
Label: Hewlett Packard
Manufacturer: Hewlett Packard
Model: DB225A#ABA
Publisher: Hewlett Packard
Sales Rank: 88092
Studio: Hewlett Packard

Features:

Wired digital media receiver provides interface between PC and connected stereo and TV
User-friendly interface automatically gathers music and pictures from multiple networked PCs
Standard 802.3 Wired LAN 10 Base-T Ethernet interface; analog audio left & right out; composite video out; S-video out
Supports music formats: MP3 and WMA, plus import of M3U, PLS and RMP playlists; image formats: JPG, GIF, BMP and PNG
Included software: Mediabolic M1 Software Environment; remote; 2-meter analog audio and composite video cables; 1.8 meter Ethernet cable

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Product Description:
High-tech home entertainment moves to the next level with the HP digital media receiver en5000. Hook it up and you're ready to create, edit, organize, and present (in the comfort of your own living room) all your digital entertainment content.Play music from your PC (e.g., MP3 files) on your stereo using the composite video, S-Video, and RCA audio out. View photos from your PC on your TV as slide shows. Centralize your digital entertainment with standard Ethernet compatibility. Automatically retrieve music and pictures from any networked PC in the house. Remotely control other media receivers, as well as photo viewing and printing (to a networked PC). Set up with no hassles using TV-based menus.

Customer Reviews

Average Rating: out of 5 stars

Rating:

- Ready or not, sell it!
This is without a doubt, the most poorly conceived, ridiculously designed, sloppily manufactured product of it's kind on the market. Everything about it is just plain wrong! First the media server software does not run as a windows service, so you have to go to your media center PC and log into an account, then since it wasn't running as a service, it delays the loading of your account every time you log in as it synchronizes. It only allows five directories and will not search subdirectories so if you organize your music or pictures in any way, you can't get to them all. You wouldn't believe how you have to enter the WEP key if your network is secure. One character at a time on this goofy little on screen keyboard and then WEP does not work on it. Total waste of time, money and HP's reputation. It's foul, heinious and smells really bad.

Rating:

- Not bad!
Bought this with the idea of showing pictures stored on the computer on the TV -- and listing to music on the computer thru my sound system.

Very straight forward hookup -- took longer to get the cables and unit out of the box than it did to have it up and going. HP made this very simple! And it does exactly what I had wanted --

(Of course now I wish I had gotten the wireless unit. Oh well...)

Rating:

- Poor User Interface Design
This is a great idea. Unfortunately, the HP people forgot to give any thought to how people might actually use this thing and ended designing something that has all the problems of computers (crashes and poor interface) with the worst parts of traditional receivers (inflexibility and inability to customize). The biggest problem I have with this is that it is very slow to respond to button presses. This is especially evident when trying to get it to shuffle or repeat playlists. You push the button, no response. An hourglass would have been nice, just so you know that it's at least trying to do what you asked it to do. Even a beep from the player would've been nice.

Then there are stability issues. It crashes often, and sometimes you have to unplug it to restart (the power button on the remote and on the unit itself becomes unresponsive). After one such crash it forgot my settings.

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Rating:

- Good idea, flawed execution. So disappointed...
I really, really wanted this to work. I had previously purchased the SonicRio Digital Media Receiver ... but as the reviewers point out, this is no longer a supported product, and when my device crapped out on me, I was stuck.

So I had been eagerly awaiting this product, hoping that a more reliable, trust-worthy vendor would do a better job with a networked MP3 receiver. Sadly, this was not the case.

This is very similar in design to the SonicBlue (with the exception of photo viewing and TV UI as opposed to embedded LCD screen.) Otherwise, many of the flaws pointed out in the review for the SonicBlue apply here as well:
"1. You MUST run THEIR software on your server.
2. You MUST log in ( and stay logged in)to the server for their software to work (it SHOULDN'T, but does!).
3. They don't pay any attention to Track Numbers on an album. It always plays in ALPHA order. "

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