LaCie Media Player LaCinema Classic HD

LaCie have launched a new media player, the LaCinema Classic HD, which is an upgraded version of their LaCinema we talked about almost two years ago. Intriguingly the capacity is still the same at 1TB, but of course it now sports HDMI output and supports a large number of formats. Here’s the opening passage from the press release from LaCie

LaCie today introduced the most complete HD multimedia hard drive player, combining Full HD 1080p playback, unsurpassed format compatibility and DLNA media server functionality – LaCinema Classic HD, design by Neil Poulton. Users can browse, play and share HD media collections from anywhere in the home, directly on HDTV.

The plan is you keep the LaCinema Classic unit hooked up to your computer and load media on to it which you can later showoff by hooking it the LaCinema up to your HDTV. The unit also has DNLA functionality allowing it to access media files on computers on your local network. Here are the specs on the LaCie LaCinema Classic HD

* Capacity 1 TB
* Connectivity USB 2.0 (USB 1.1 compatible)
* Maximum Resolution Up to 1920×1080p
* Video Codecs - MPEG-1, MPEG-2 / HD, MPEG-4, DIVX, DIVX HD, XVID, H.264 HD, WMV9 HD, VC-1
* Video Format AVI, MP4, MKV, WMV, DivX, DAT, MOV, MPEG, VOB, ASF, TS, TP, TRP, M2TS, DVR-MS, DVD-Video
* Upscaling to 1080p
* Audio Format MP3, WMA, WAV/PCM/LPCM, AAC, OGG, FLAC, AC3, MP4, MKA
* Subtitles SRT, SSA, SUB, SMI, PSB, ASS
* Playlist M3U
* DTS - Multichannel decoding via Optical SPDIF and HDMI to digital home amplifier
* Photo JPEG*, PNG, GIF, BMP, TIFF/TIF (*excluding progressive jpeg)
* Video Outputs HDMI 1.3, Composite (CVBS)
* Audio Outputs Optical, Stereo
* 234 x 225 x 46 mm
* Weight 1.9 kg

Two years on and we’re still not sure why you’d have one of these suckers rather than a dedicated Media unit. Of course it’s a lot cheaper at US$250 than a PC especially when you think about all the built-in network capability. However we sort of go “nah, not really” when it comes to the LaCie LaCinema Classic HD media player. But of course you may think different.

Source: LaCie

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