The LaCie LaCinema Classic HD is, at its heart, a 1TB hard drive with HDMI-out. You can load up media through USB from a PC or Mac (or flash drive). Then you can carry the drive to your television and watch DivX or MKV H.264 movies.
But it’s always a DLNA-compliant HD media player. In other words, you can hook it in to your network through Ethernet (Wi-Fi dongle available) and stream media without copying the files over.
Time will tell if LaCie’s player can compete with the rest of the competition (see our full Battlemodo here), but it’s available now in Australia for $299, and it’s certainly the best-looking media streamer we’ve seen to date.
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alex
March 5, 2010 at 1:02 AM
$279 at stone in William St Melbourne CBD. ^^
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April 19, 2010 at 5:49 PM
As a simple Media Player, this one is hard to beat. This is my 3rd Lacie lacinema. originally 500gb Non HD, then 500GB HD, now 1TB HD. On the rare occasion the media can freeze up, but they have now loaded a patch and supposedly fixed. for first timers – you have to have one!
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