Advanced Network 1080p HD Media Player Review

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(More customer reviews)I own a PHD set-top box and have been mostly pleased with it. I also do some encoding for server playback, so when i got the announcement for the HM5 media player, it seemed like a good tool for playing promotional videos at client venues. I ordered one and it seems to be quite the tool for the price, but i have one problem that no one seems to have reported yet. On some VOB files, i get video "skips" every few seconds. The video and audio seem to jump down into the clip for no apparent reason. I haven't identified a pattern to the jumps but i suspect that there is one. I thought that it might be related to using drives that are too big for the operating system, and that may still be the case, but going down to a 250 GB drive did not fix the problem. I first noticed it above about 250 GB on a 500 GB NTFS drive, hence the test, but it doesn't seem to have helped. It doesn't seem to be related to file size. I guess i will try going to a FAT32 disk and see if i still see it, but that will limit the file size.
Anyone have any clues?
UPDATE:
After i wrote this note, i went back to the computer and dug a little deeper. What i found was that the problem is not related to file size, disk size or operating system. It was caused by the nature of the DVD production. All of the DVD images that i had were produced by individuals for screening, not commercial discs, and opening them in MPEG Streamclip (on a Mac) showed timecode breaks. When i let Streamclip fix the breaks, then exported the clips as MPEG Program streams, all was well with the PHD-HM5. So i have upgraded my rating to 5 stars. It works like a champ. Sorry for the confusion. BTW, i don't see the problem on BluRay disc images.

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PHD-HM5 provides the most convenient way to play HD movies or user-generated videos, listen to high-quality digital music, and show high-resolution slideshows of your family photos on your TV. With outputs HDMI (up to1080p), Component Y-Pb-Pr (1080i/720p/480p) and inputs from USB 2.0 and Ethernet, PHD-HM5 guarantees maximum performance while delivering the ultimate quality in high definition video and audio.

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