Whenever we think of listening to music or watching a movie in our leisure time at home we think of external hard disks or flash drives that we attach with TV or music system. But now the famous game producing company Acme, joined hands with interactive ideas and launched their multimedia portable player on 6th November 2011.
On a very first glance one may feel that the latest offering from Acme is nothing but a external storage device. But looks can be decisive. This multimedia player has 1TB storage that can store upto 100 HD movies, music, photos in it. This multimedia player can play movies at 1080p quality HD recording, HDMI connection enables it to use with 5.1 channel Dolby digital surround sound system it can read the data from SD card so that you can relive the memories through pictures in a wide screen monitor.
Functionality
ACME multimedia player has various features to drool over. The size of this player is only 142.5(L) x 85(W) x 23(H) mm and it can support USB 3.0 as well as USB 2.0. The weight of this multimedia player is comparatively lower only 1.2 kg. It also has a external memory card slot and it can attach to external hard disk as well. There are 15 different menu languages to select from English, French, German to Hebrew, Portuguese, Hungarian etc. This player also supports various media format such as AVI, VOB, MKV, MOV, MP4, MPG, TS, WMV, DAT, IFO, RM/RMVB, ISO. This player supports all the popular media codec such as H.264, HD MPEG-1/2/4, Divx, Xvid. One can also get HDMI cable for attaching the player in wide screen monitor to watch the movies or videos in high definition. It supports all the popular image formats JPG/JPEG, BM, HD photo up to 1080p. While watching the photos, one can play his favorite music in the background also. NTSC/PAL is the TV system that it supports. To play the video, music and to support Dolby Digital 5.1 channel music, it was built on the famous Realtek 1055 chipset.
To harness the full features of this media player one has to setup his room right. The 5.1 channel surround systems should be mounted properly and the TV monitor should have the capability of playing the HD video. There is no need to worry about the HDMI cable as one cable is provided with the package. While playing the movie one can also turn on the subtitle feature as well. It also has a 7 inch touch screen through which one ca can operate the media functions more efficiently. One can customize the touch screen with different gadgets based on their need as well. This player comes with one year of service warranty and it can be power up by using AC 110/220 V.
What to expect
Acme is an internationally renowned company that creates and supplies IT related products. Interactive Ideas is another value added distributor of software and technology products. Acme multimedia player is the result of these two companies and one can expect from the media player the same brand value with top most quality product. With a plethora of rich features and supported media files, one can be sure of getting the most out the investment and this is a true value-for-money product. One has to upgrade the firmware as well from time to time to get the maximum features of the product.
What not to expect
Acme Multimedia Player is based on Realtek chipset and this is not so good in terms of upgradation. One has to upgrade the chipset regularly using the official Realtek website. Also the storage space is 1TB. This may create the problem as if the multimedia player gets damaged then the data may loss from it. The multimedia player also does not support 7.1 HD audio yet and this may be a drawback. Currently people love to listen to their favorite music in a 7.1 channel sound system or love to watch all the action from a HD movie in it. But without the access of 7.1 channel HD sound system they cannot enjoy the same.
Wrap up
Acme Multimedia Player is available in the market for $99.99 and it is currently available in the UK market only. But later this year the player will be introduced in US and other international markets as well. Acme multimedia player will be successful in the market as it already knows the issues one can expect from such device. It will also help the multimedia portable player to perform better and in HD quality.
