Introduction

I would like to thank EMINENT for providing the review sample.

Eminent is a fairly young company based in the Netherlands. Their mission statement sums things up nicely:

Eminent has the objective to provide high-quality home automation solutions and ICT accessories, with which our customers can benefit from the possibilities offered by the digital world. We strive to deliver maximum support to our users and resellers. The product groups we focus on are home automation, camera surveillance and HD media players.

Now that we have the formalities out of the way, let us take a look at the EM7280 hdMEDIA RT³ media player.

Features

• Play video formats like MKV, VC-1, AVCHD H/X.264 on your Full HD 1080P television
• Supports Blu-Ray ISO files
• Supports AC3 & DTS stereo downmix
• Optical and Coaxial output for Dolby AC3 & DTS
• Supports TrueHD & DTS-HD pass through on HDMI
• HDMI networked HD media player with next-generation Realtek RT1185 chipset
• USB 3.0 client port for transferring data between PC and player
• Connects to your network or via USB to your pc
• Built-in BitTorrent and Usenet (NZB) download client
• Stream music or video from your network by Samba or UPnP
• Two USB host ports, built in SD/SDHC memory card reader
• Built-in Gigabit lan
• Play from internal hard disk, usb hard disk and your network (LAN)
• All-new Video/Music/Photo library system
• 5-Year warranty

Packaging

The Eminent media player ships in a compact cardboard box with a lot of information on it. Upon closer look, it is quite repetitive, so what you see on the top of the box is also what is printed on the other sides.