I play in bands and am tired of having big screen tvs showing sports behind us on stage. With this device I am a slideshow video, slapped it on a usb drive and now I can plug this device in to the HDMI port and show band-related video on those TVs. Simple to use, works great and you can't beat it for the price.

I've used both the Micca G2 and G3 neither of them reliably plays MP3 & MP4 files. This NEUMEI box just blasted through 4 files that the Micca box was unable to play. On top of that, this box can handle a much larger HD than the Micca and the seek and fast fwd/reverse function is also superior.

I rarely leave five star reviews, but this product deserves it

This digital media player was able to play all my digital videos. I would highly recommend it.

Love this media player. I have transferred a bunch of home videos and dvds to usb hard drives and use the Neumi to interface to my tv. I liked it so much I bought a second one for my motor home.

Playing videos is very easy. Just scroll to the one you want and poof, it plays on your tv. If you have photos you simply select the view photo option and go to the directory containing the photo files and the Neumi will display the photos as a slide show. Very convenient.

I previously have purchased a different video player but it would not play any of my MP4 videos. This unit has absolutely no problem with anything I throw at it.

The setup is simple, and the interface bare bones child's play, easy. It takes a few seconds to warm up, but flashes through the attached drive quickly. It handles subtitles, both embedded and srt, something my $1,400 smart TV refuses to do with the USB input.

It's supposed to handle 2T drives, but the first one I hooked up did not work. The unit displayed the directory structure, but wouldn't display any files in them, I got an error message that no supported files were found. I tried a 32 gig stick, and that worked, so it occurred to me the 2T drive I tried was several years old, a WD My Passport. I tried a newer 2T Seagate, and no problem.

The upscaling engines in Vizio TVs excel at handling 1080p files directly from the USB input, though of course the handling is primitive, limited size, format, no fast forward, no subtitles, ridiculous (clearly they don't want you using your own files, it cuts into their streaming money). All those problems vanish with this box, and the upscaling engine seems to handle the HDMI stream just as well, I couldn't detect any difference compared to the direct digital access to the video files.

Some of the first files I tried were 1080p x265, and they were awful, swirling lines in dark backgrounds, extreme color saturation. But when I played the same files through USB, it was the same thing. I had to go to a 5.1G x264 file, and that's something the USB input would never play, too big. Only a set top box can deliver a file that size, at least to a Vizio. Odd, usually x265's are fine, just a couple of examples that weren't, poor processing at the upload end I guess. But the Neumi saved the day.

What else? The power cord is a bit short, and as others have pointed out, the remote range is an issue. You have to be careful to leave the face of the box clear for the remote to see it. It comes with an RCA cable . . . for what? What kind of modern device has RCA inputs these days? They should have dropped that and moved the USB input to the back panel. If someone needed RCA they could always use a cheap HDMI converter cable. One small glitch, even after you turn it off, the USB port remains powered for some reason, meaning that the attached drive continues to run, not good. The solution is to unplug the drive of course, but to keep the wear and tear down on the ports, I have a short USB extension cable attached to the Neumi, and also one for the main drive I use, so that the cord connections can take the beating. It also means the Neumi stays in place better. Note that it's so light, even the curl in an HDMI cable shoves it around, so I had to tape it in place. And, there's no explanation for what the remote buttons do in the packaging, but there's just a few of them, easy to figure out. Apparently any drive connected to it acquires a new directory called "LOST.DIR", but it's harmless.

Often inexpensive video equipment from you know where doesn't last very long, even though they're solid state. The other reviews don't seem to show a systemic problem, so we'll see. If it does live, device of the decade.

Ed: I decided to buy a Vernatim SSD as my working drive for this thing, but the box won't recognize it when it starts up with the drive already connected. You have to let the Neumi boot up and then plug it in. Which is fine, because I don't leave the drive in when the box is off, as the USB port is still hot. Whether this is a Verbatim thing or not, I don't know.

Also wik: It was the Verbatim drive, that's just a mess. It's formatted to FAT32 and apparently can't be changed, though I'm not sure that was the issue. In any case, I substituted a Samsung SSD and the Neumi box sees that drive just fine, whether it's connected before or after starting up. Everything is going well, this little $45 box is humming along nicely. I do wish you could change the appearance of the main screens, the multi-colored pastel thing is not my cup of meat. Details, details.

Also also wik: I'm having intermittent problems with brand new Seagate 2T drives. Sometimes it works, sometimes it freezes in the middle of a file, and the only solution is to shut down and unplug. You could use the Samsung SSD as a working drive, and copy over what you wanted to watch, but that messes up the spontaneity of browsing through a collection. Or, you could just pony up for the SSD's and abandon "normal" external drives. Oh well, the box works so seamlessly otherwise, I'm willing to put up with this problem.

Also also also wik: I just had a problem with separate srt subtitles (for "Shadow Detective"). The file played normally for the first ten minutes, and then the subs vanished. They didn't appear at all for the next five episodes. In the end, I had to hard code them with iDealshare. Maybe it was just a glitch with this series, but all the files played correctly on VLC.