brite-View Playtime (BV-3100) 1080p HD Multimedia Player - white

Nice little device with a 10 sec skip, jump to any time or chapter. Preview window for all files and works fast. No hanging on the preview window. Picture quality is excellent.Sometimes the ff and rr is slow but the easy jump to any time completely makes up for it. Then other times the ff and rr are very fast. Don't know why but don't care either, love the jump to any time feature. Has a search feature to find any move ,music, picture. How cool is that,,,,,,,,,, Can rename delete any file.My first britveiw went bad it was the first one they came out with 5005 I think. This one is much improved. Has the familiar things but much improved with a much better interface. Got 2tb hooked up usb and it plays any kind of file I can throw at it. I got so many different types I don't even know what they all are.This little device is a home run. I may have to get another just in case anything happens to this one.If you are looking for a bunch of aps like Netflix this is not for you. I have the ps3 for that stuff.

Worked great for 60 days, now useless and no warranty

I read some several good reviews on this product and I was thinking of replacing my 5 year old WD mini player which has already logged about 6,000 hours or so (because I keep it cool with a small fan). However, after using brite-view for two days I started to appreciate my old WD mini player and its simplicity. I needed a simple media player without all the internet/wifi connections and brite-view seemed like a good replacement for my old WD. I didn't like the full zoom feature of the brite-view and preferred the option of partial/full zooms on my old WD. the projection and the sound system were about the same quality on both players. If my old WD goes kaput some day, then I am not sure what I would do because all the new media players are loaded with stuff I don't need and none of them seem to have partial zooms which helps on my large movie projection screen.

Pros: small size. You can put it in your pocket to bring it to any TV.Cons: it does not convert VRO files, the format produced by my camcorder. I had to buy a video converter. This,of course, is a manufacturer's defect, but had Amazon.com informed customers of it, I would have searched for the device that does work with this format. Likewise, the advertisement did not mention the cables supplied. Amazon.com's advertisements are, in general, too brief, which may create unnecessary retirns, as it happened once with me.

I bought this little player to hook up to a TV out in the garage to do my workout videos and play movies while on the treadmill. The unit is compact and lightweight and can be placed anywhere. So far it plays all my video formats, some even our existing EVA cannot play. The price was right at around $60 bucks too. My only complaint is that I wish they would have included an HDMI cable with the device as well. Overall, I'm happy with it.

I've been looking for a media player to play my movie collection and home videos. Searching "media player" at Amazon returned brands like Micca and NBox at the top of the list with many positive reviews. So I decided to give them a try. First I bought a NBox. Despite claims of playing most of the video format, the unit did not play HD home videos saved as m2ts files. After returning it, I purchased a Micca, only to be disappointed that the shipped product was a used one with cosmetic damages on the unit and did not work at all. After these couple of bad experiences, I finally digged out the brite-View Playtime BV-3100 on the third page of the search results on Amazon. There was only one review at the time, and against all odds I placed the order. Boy, did I make the right decision! Unlike most of the other players, the unit is white and looks attractive. Hook-up to TV was easy - I didn't get to push any buttons as with the other two players; just plug and play. Remote is very cute and colorful, and reception is really good from a distance and at different angles - this is in stark contrast to the remotes of the NBox and Micca (just see how many complaints about their remotes in the reviews). User menu is simple and straightforward. So far I've thrown at it m2ts, flv, mp4, rmvb, vob, mkv files and all played well. The only exception is the flv files: I have a list of flv files; the unit plays the very first and very last one and skipped everything in between; the same flv files play well on my computer. Haven't figured out what's going on. Beside that, I've had it for two weeks now and no problem yet. Overall a good buy for the money. I am surprised why there are not more buyers and positive reviews for this product.

This unit was easy to set up and use. However it seems to have a software bug preventing it from displaying subtitles for .mkv videos -- possibly this bug exists for other types of videos too, but .mkv is the only one I've tried.I bought this unit to watch exactly these types of videos, so I'm very disappointed. The Brite-View user forum has other people complaining about the same issue, with no apparent response from Brite-View.Be careful with this (and if you're planning to use it to watch .mkv files with subtitles, DON'T BUY IT).