There have been a number of threads about the venerable and ageing WD TV media player for quite a few years, as well as many people looking for a suitable rep. Media players. O. P. Aldi catalogue for 1. DRY9hrx6U/U4QQL2Zd_mI/AAAAAAAB7w4/vknLTEIwlU0/image_thumb%25255B10%25255D.png?imgmax=800' alt='File Playercorefactory Xml' title='File Playercorefactory Xml' />Oct 2. Cocoon Smart Media Player. The specifications look great but the drawback is 8gb internal memory. It has an expansion option via USB or Micro SD storage device but I need a 2tb storage as my current media player has. There are no reviews at present. Between the BluRay player, cable box, laptop, and everything else hooked up to your TV, your home theater situation is a mess. Heres how I rolled all those. Im not really like the fact that HiMedia player is getting worse and worse with every new fw so I tried and managed to replace HiMedia Player with MX Player recently. Q6SrYVy.jpg' alt='File Playercorefactory Xml' title='File Playercorefactory Xml' />Your feedback is appreciated. Thank youyeah id like more info on this product too. Thanks for the link. I have read both manuals and I am unclear if it will search and be able to stream movies from a metwork attached device such as a nas. I will head down tomorrow to see if there are any available and give it a go. I am Man writes. I will head down tomorrow to see if there are any available and give it a go. Aldi are good on there returns. They give you up to 6. I am also interested in purchasing this android box. I would like to know if it will play live streaming tv from the internet on it Wondering also what the range is on the wifi signal as there are other boxes that have an external antennaIm new to these devices so some help would be appreciated. A quick update for those interested in this device. I bought mine this morning. Apps section that gives access to the Play store. It also has browser capability. EG when filling in an IP address the dot on the remote doesnt seem to work but all the numbers do. I had to use the dot from the onscreen keyboard. The touch switch on the top is a little sensitive, im guessing its a photo sensitive diode. USBs etc. Ive tried a few AVIs and an M4. V but my NAS is down right now so im limited on trial file types. Ive tried so far without too much effort, heres the specs of the files note, this was direct from a USB2 stick6. O. P. Just brought mine is morning. Yet to upack, and go through the motions of installation. I believe this unit is capable of reading and playing movies from an external HD. Thanks for your input R1ck. Will post my feedback after installation. Edited Completed installation all worked fine. Model No B7. 16. Product Model i. Design Of Reinforced Concrete Structures By Krishna Raju Pdf Free. Box. 66xx, Android Ver 4. Build ver i. Box. Watched movies via 6. GB USB flash drive and external 1. TB HD fine. Apps ABC iview works, but Plus. Its not the Wi Fi, I belived its the Plus. Correct me Dislike the Owl Player seeking another player. Just got one today and here is the feedback so far chipset appears to be a chinese one. SOC is a quad core 1. Ghz ATM7. 02. 9 from Actions Semiconductor. This contains a video GPU Vivante GC1. Device is not rooted. Unit boots straight into the media player launcher and there is an option in this launcher for apps inc android system setup. Side loader option is not shown but is working anyway. Defaul player looks great except I cant find any way to get it to play files from remote servers no network conenction options. Its only local playback. Default apps include Play store and ESfile explorer. I was able to install other apps such as XBMC and games. Unit seems to default to 7. There is a setting in system for HDMI and I chose 1. TV verifies the unit is sending 1. P mode nomater. This is reflected by all apps including XBMCNote XBMC plays some test files via lan 7. XBMC reports hardware mode is available for video. Now about to install another launcher and see how that goes. I also tested the inbuilt player locally on 7. Seemed fine with the inbuilt smooth and no issue with the one 1. I used. The player is called OWL but as of yet I have not found out who created this app. ESfile explorer yep. My server is a SMB server. Sometimes they become unresponsive but I just unplug and replug and all is fine. As they are wireless it may be some sleep mode is not supported. Update usb working a lot beetter now I inserted a cheap unpowered hub between devices and player. I change the google account setting or do a factory reset Thanks. Got one this morning. Seems to work but very clunky. Have had Jaycar version previously clunky as well but with a wireless keyboard works better than the cocoon and I was hoping this cocoon would take away the clunkyness. The coccon. Can not seem to scroll over one page length. Went looking at web site stated on paper work found absolutely NO information other than a pdf copy of the manual that came with the unit. I thought we saw somewhere that there was an App that turned your phonetablet into a remote for the unit. Now I can not find the reference or the app. Can play video from our NAS but mkv play with no sound. VLC and MX player now plays with sound. So all in all I was hoping for better. Early days yet. Hubby fiddling while I write he got a wireless keyboard to work which we purchased online for the jaycar android TV unit. Easier to use. Have fun all. I am hoping to install xmbc and replace the menu. To install xmbc it requires the developer option, which does not work by clicking build number 7 times. I am able to play 1. Mind you, when you click on play movies, its just launching owl player anyways. I have used the default android media player and it also plays 7. I can only assume these players use the default low level drivers in the OS whereas XBMC does its own thing. If I can work out how to get XBMC to use an external player we may have an option here. Ah off to play more HOW TO UseexternalplayersonAndroidngh writes. Got one this morning. Seems to work but very clunky. Same here. Setup and everything else went very smooth and looked the goods initially but in my case I found the Wi. Fi very very slow for everything, Internet and streaming. Remote fairly clunky. Tried installing and using other media apps such as VLC and no difference. Unit is attached to the TV sitting next to an WDTV unit which has never had any issues and speed wise leaves the Cocoon for dead. Not as good as Id hoped so I might take advantage of the Aldi 6. It was worth a shot for me Love the Aldi I could not download and install apps from google play store Anyone having the same problem After a few frustrating hours am going to send the unit back. The Jaycar Android Unit now discontinued works far better. The apps to make things work better on the cocoon you have to purchaseI think you would need to root the machine not for the faint hearted. I tried to watch an action movie from our nas and found it rather shaky and I was unable to watch without a headache forming. So seeing that was one of the main uses we intended for it, the unit will not fit our requirements as well as being difficult to manage compared to my many other android devices. Can someone who has purchased one let me know how playback goes with ABC i. View or SBS On. Demand over Wi. Fi Thanks Anyone figured out how to factory reset one of theseLike any Android device, the instructions say to go to settings, scroll down to Backup Reset then select factory reset. My SETTINGS menu finishes at LANGUAGE INPUT, there is no BACKUP RESET menu selection. EDIT All I can get the RESET button the back of the unit to do is shut it down and re start it. I change the google account setting or do a factory reset Thanks. You figure this out obet I have come to the conclusion its a 7. It will play 1. 08. Got mine working acceptably for lan playback up to 7. SMBHere is how All from play store used an existing login I had from my phoneInstalled a new launcher bypassing existing media desktop Galaxy LauncherInstalled MX player. Installed MX player ARM7 Neon add on. Enabled hardware playback in MXplayer. Installed XBMC http wiki. HOW TO InstallKodiforAndroid. Installed Startup manager and add XBMC as a auto start user option. Installed some pretty wallpapers Now the box boots into XBMC To do Configured XBMC to use MXPlayer still working on this but inbuilt media player is ok Hitting home on remote quits XBMC and returns to launcher. I need a way to make it return to XBMC. Same here Obet, it downloads then says error installing code is 1. I know, tried googling, tried reset cant reset tried deleting play store cache. Getting pretty frustrated.