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Company Dune is a permanent fixture on the market for media players and one of the few still offers good zaplatitelné, yet already good device, that they despise not really demanding consumer. If you are the least bit interested in deeper play audio, but also video content across a home network, then you are on any of Dune HD devices certainly come across - quite probably mainly to the flagship called Base 3D, which is the only resembles its exterior classic hi -fi components.
Dune HD Base 3D is actually quite subtle talented home multimedia center with a very sleek design. Simple, clean lines rectangular boxes with relatively robust aluminum front panel has a clean and modern, landmark is definitely centrally mounted display for bulky glass cover, on which the large and bright blue characters show all the basic information - but there is not too much, because you see everything logically on your television. To the left of this screen is a shaft to install a hard disk on which you can store music and movies, almost at the edge of the push button switch with LED status rather brilliant. To the right of the display are miniature control buttons grain scale for playback, SD card slot, 3.5mm headphone output and a USB port to plug an external hard drive.
The rest of the cabinet is really nothing to describe, very simple, black walls made of thin sheet metal are quite hackneyed; these can be found on any similar product price levels. Mention might deserve extruded manufacturer logo at the top of the wall. When the back is important, because there you will discover all the ways in which Dune HD Base 3D manages to deliver the processed audio-visual content. On the left is the connector for the antenna WiFi (standard b / g / n), which certainly Dune collects points for comfort, even over a very good connectivity and efficient utilization and average wireless signal is better to use the right side jack - Ethernet grain scale Port 10/100/1000 Mb / s. Under LAN connectors are another pair of USB 2.0 ports for external media (disk or optical drive must also ...); next to the HDMI 1.4 specification, but is there alone. It's a shame to be secondary grain scale connector for a second zone or projector would today certainly pleased. Overall, decent equipment then adds composite and component outputs, coaxial and optical audio output, everything completes one pair of analog RCA outputs. Right corner of the occupying power socket with a rocker switch. A fan in the middle of it - it is a necessity, because low body and relatively grain scale high computing power are not entirely ideal combination in terms of cooling. However, the fan is very quiet, and indulge him if occasional vacuuming, also remains silent.
When we mentioned a low profile, we could specify. The manufacturer specifies the width 49 cm, depth of 31.5 cm and a height of 13.2 cm, weighing 2.4 kg. Minimum height is questionable and pays so maybe i raised grain scale including wi-fi antenna.
It is important grain scale but the ability of the media center. The brain of the device is a processor Sigma Designs 8672/8673, which supports 512 MB of memory. For firmware is reserved 256MB; Speaking of firmware, grain scale manufacturers carefully control program updates and access to new features and optimize existing ones. It is definitely nice. It is essential then art stream - Dune HD Base 3D manages UPnP and DLNA (1.5 or 2.0), but also SMB (unusual, but many places are functioning better than UPnP), NFS, or HTTP. Built-there is an internet browser Opera support Flash animations - in fact anything you therefore does not restrict grain scale the full use of the browser.
Supported formats and codecs is excellent and exhaustive, if you want a complete list, we link to the web Supplier: http://www.eurostar-ostrava.cz/cs/produkt/1955-base-3d-w/?katID=432#. If we had to choose the most important formats are sure to MKV, DVD and Blu-ray ISO, but also VIDEO_TS or AVI, MOV and more. Z codecs is it then everything from MPEG2 / 4 to H.264. Again, it is just a matter of firmware, whether there will be some more. Of course there is also support three-dimensional video. Of the audio format is again basically almost everything, including Dolby Digital and DTS, as well as FLAC and WAV with high-resolution 24/192 meets only support the thriving DSD format, but this is due to longer after all a little older date of birth completely understandable. The same course seems to be very broad format support grain scale for subtitles. In other words, almost anything from commonly available materials Dune HD Base 3D předhodíte, it seamlessly handles this device.
The Dune HD also boasts particularly careful optimization of network streaming, and must confirm grain scale it - the speed of browsing grain scale the NAS server via a wireless connection and is really great, as well as access to the internet and streaming over wi-fi for large MKV files. We have not seen the whole period longer grain scale than one or two-second hesitation.
Dune HD Base 3D, we operated mainly with Philips TV 47PFL5008K / 12, for comparison, we served Blu-ray Samsung BD-D8900M and Pi