Testseek.com have collected 29 expert reviews of the Asus O!Play HDP-R1 HD Media Player and the average rating is 78%. Scroll down and see all reviews for Asus O!Play HDP-R1 HD Media Player.
December 2009
(78%)
29 Reviews
Average score from experts who have reviewed this product.
The Asus O!Play HDP-R1 is a lot of media player for $99. While it lacks the polished user interface of, say, the Western Digital WD TV Live, its excellent performance meant that it was not out of place in my reference home-theater system. The HDP-R1 h...
I do not see the ASUS HDP-R1 as a direct replacement to either the typical DVD/BD player or the HTPC since it cannot read physical media - yet. The development team over at ASUS knows that supporting a USB or eSATA external optical drive would be a gre...
Abstract: These new devices help you bring tunes and video files to your TV from your PCs and drives around your house. Which one is best? The year is almost at an end. While the year was chock full of praise-worthy trends in technology and consumer electronics...
As to using the O!Play to play media from direct-connected USB storage sources, we’re not sure if it is really worth the time it takes to physically copy files to a removable hard drive or flash drive just to be able to view them on a TV. Accessing...
Abstract: Video Review: Kevin Pereira and Olivia Munn bring another possible holiday gift idea under $100 with the Asus O!Play streaming media center. This device allows users to stream content from a PC or storage unit directly to your TV over your home network...
Taking on similar dimensions as compact 3.5″ portable hard drive enclosures, the Asus O!Play HDP-R1 HD Media Player is truly the best of its kind. It may not have any internal storage of its own, but most people are more than happy to provide their ow...
Despite small problems that we came across during testing period, ASUS O!Play made positive impression on us. All multimedia material that we thrown at it O!Play played with ease and with good picture and sound quality. Compared to similarly priced dev...
Abstract: Battlemodos give you a clear sense of what's good and bad in a gadget category, but there's no way to include everything. Consider the $99 Asus O!Play the new champ of HD video players—better late than never. The Old Champs If you remember t...
Very good Ethernet streaming performance, easy to use, USB 2.0 and eSATA, HD streaming, Internet radio streaming, file copying between attached drives and wired Ethernet network
Didn't show up as a UPnP device in Windows 7, Internet video streaming was poor
We found the ASUS O!Play HDP-R1 to be easy to use and it performed all its intended tasks well, except for Internet video streaming. It also took some fiddling to get it to work with Windows 7. But the bottom line is that it's a good little HD streamer th...
Diverse file format support, eSATA connection, decent price tag
Music file playback is very basic, some problems streaming from Windows PCs, no wireless connectivity
If cost is an important factor, ASUS' O!Play HDP-R1 media streaming solution is hard to pass up. It can handle almost anything you throw at it and has a simple (but not bland) interface...
