Seagate 1TB HD Player €99

The Sparrow

Harvey Norman (in Carrickmines at least) are selling the Seagate GoFlex Cinema 1TB HD Player for €99 reduced from €149.

Seemed a great price for a 1TB HD Media Player so I bought one as a present for Christmas. Just been playing around with it and it is fantastic. It has played every single MKV, AVI, MP4 and WMV file that I have thrown at it. Simple enough page interface but easy to navigate and a decent remote.

It may be available to buy cheaper online but this seems like a very decent price for a bricks and mortar store.

kearneybobs

The Sparrow wrote: »

Harvey Norman (in Carrickmines at least) are selling the Seagate GoFlex Cinema 1TB HD Player for €99 reduced from €149.

Seemed a great price for a 1TB HD Media Player so I bought one as a present for Christmas. Just been playing around with it and it is fantastic. It has played every single MKV, AVI, MP4 and WMV file that I have thrown at it. Simple enough page interface but easy to navigate and a decent remote.

It may be available to buy cheaper online but this seems like a very decent price for a bricks and mortar store.

Which Harvey Norman was it and did they have many of them? Offer still running?

oops. Just reread the OP there. Carrickmines it is then.

Mizu_Ger

The 2Tb model is €159. I got one in Blanchardstown. TBH I was disappointed with it. I sold my old Seagate HD Media Player to get this and it isn't as compatible (big problem is no DTS support), but the menus are better and obviously it has huge capacity.

If you don't need DTS or any network functionality then it's a bargain and much cheaper than online prices (it's very hard to find it online).

kearneybobs

Mizu_Ger wrote: »

The 2Tb model is €159. I got one in Blanchardstown. TBH I was disappointed with it. I sold my old Seagate HD Media Player to get this and it isn't as compatible (big problem is no DTS support), but the menus are better and obviously it has huge capacity.

If you don't need DTS or any network functionality then it's a bargain and much cheaper than online prices (it's very hard to find it online).

What does the lack of DTS support really mean to the functionality of the media player? Will some video files not play right/at all.

The Sparrow

Dunno how many were left. I bought it on Tuesday and there was one in their display case but the sales assistant had to go to the back to get the one I bought so I couldn't see stock levels.

Yep it doesn't play files with DTS audio. That means that if you download a file with DTS, there will be no sound. But if you don't have a surround sound system that can play DTS then it is not really a big deal. The vast majority of files in my experience don't have DTS audio. The player seems to play everything else though.

Mizu_Ger

Yeah, it's not the end of the world not having DTS, but it you are a downloader then it'll restrict what you can watch (listen to!).

I mostly use mine to archive my DVDs, so any that have DTS soundtracks won't play with audio (it does this even when the dolby digital file is selected for some reason, so need to strip out the DTS altogether). I think it'll pass the raw DTS to an external amp if you have one (I don't!).

They had about 3 of each type (1tb and 2tb) in Blanch last weekend. The sticker prices were €150 and €190, but ask the staff and they'll tell you they are discounted at the till.

kearneybobs

Right. I went down to Harvey Norman in Nutgrove and asked about it. He took me over to the product, I said that it's 99 in Carrickmines and he said he'd talk to his manager came back and said I could have it for €99.

The thing is, he ended up giving me the wrong product. He gave me a 1TB iOmega media player for €99. This one here, the iOmega ScreenPlay MX HD media player
http://go.iomega.com/en-us/products/multimedia-drive/screenplay-multimedia-drives/screenplay-mx/?partner=4790

I didnt realise this until I had gone home. Should I go back and get the Seagate one?

The Sparrow

Tough to say. The Iomega one you got seems to be about €119 on pixmania so it perhaos isn't as big a discount as the other one. However, it still might be decent. Gets mostly good reviews on Amazon

Although not so much on Amazon UK

Think if I was in your position, I'd probably bring it back.

glic83

also doesnt play x264 mkv's,it does play the more common h264 mkv's though incase anyone is wondering

kearneybobs

glic83 wrote: »

also doesnt play x264 mkv's,it does play the more common h264 mkv's though incase anyone is wondering

Which one? The one in the OP or the one I was given by harveys?

The Sparrow wrote: »

Think if I was in your position, I'd probably bring it back.

Yeah, i think i will bring it back. Thanks.

glic83

as far as i know neither of them do

kearneybobs

Right. I went back down there to change it. Dealt with the same guy. Said to him that he gave me the wrong one. His manager gave out sh1te to him :P.

Then he came out with the 2 TB version of the Seagate one. The price on it was €149 :eek: The price on the shelf was €189.
I said I'd take the 2TB one for €99 ...he said no

Then he went back in and got the 1TB Seagate one I originally wanted and the price on it was €113 :eek:

Anyway, after following it up online and reading some reviews out there I decided to go with the Seagate one. The iOmega one seems to fail quite often, where I have yet to see a review of the Seagate one failing.

Would have loved to get the 2TB Seagate one for €99 but I'm still pretty happy with the 1TB one even though I'm not saving as much compared to the iOmega one.

Thanks OP.

deadduck

glic83 wrote: »

as far as i know neither of them do

i think (but i could well be wrong) that x264 is just an encoder for h264.

it's listed here along with a bunch of other encoders of h264:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H.264/MPEG-4_AVC

The Sparrow

glic83 wrote: »

also doesnt play x264 mkv's,it does play the more common h264 mkv's though incase anyone is wondering

glic83 wrote: »

as far as i know neither of them do

The Seagate one certainly plays x264 mkv's. Well mine certainly does anyway!

deadduck

kearneybobs wrote: »

Right. I went back down there to change it. Dealt with the same guy. Said to him that he gave me the wrong one. His manager gave out sh1te to him :P.

Then he came out with the 2 TB version of the Seagate one. The price on it was €149 :eek: The price on the shelf was €189.
I said I'd take the 2TB one for €99 ...he said no

Then he went back in and got the 1TB Seagate one I originally wanted and the price on it was €113 :eek:

Anyway, after following it up online and reading some reviews out there I decided to go with the Seagate one. The iOmega one seems to fail quite often, where I have yet to see a review of the Seagate one failing.

Would have loved to get the 2TB Seagate one for €99 but I'm still pretty happy with the 1TB one even though I'm not saving as much compared to the iOmega one.

Thanks OP.

do you know was there many left?

kearneybobs

deadduck wrote: »

do you know was there many left?

Em, I overheard the guy say that there was three of the Seagate 1TB. That was before I exchanged iOmega media player and got the Seagate one. So I can only assume they have two left in Nutgrove. Dont let them fool you into thinking that the 1TB/2 TB should be €149/€189 if you decide to go for that. I even joked about it with the lad at the desk about the pricing errors on the shelf.
The prices should be €113 and €149, but you can get the 1TB one for €99. Tried getting the 2TB one even cheaper but he wasn't budging.

glic83

The Sparrow wrote: »

The Seagate one certainly plays x264 mkv's. Well mine certainly does anyway!

i can only give back the information that my friend gave .he has the 1tb seagate version.
I gave him a load of high def movies,i asked him how did he fair out he said, out of all the mkvs i gave him he had 2 issues the dts audio was 1 issue and the other issue was 2 movies wouldnt play he told me they were x264,he probably got it wrong if your able to play them m8.

Mizu_Ger

Easons are also doing the 1tb Seagate for €99. I saw it in their Christmas gift booklet thing in the shop in Blanch. The Easons there didn't have any when I asked, but it'd be worth checking them out.

CaSCaDe711

Seagate drives love to fail, you've been warned :rolleyes:

The Sparrow

CaSCaDe711 wrote: »

Seagate drives love to fail, you've been warned :rolleyes:

I've had a Seagate Hard Drive for ages now and it has been fine. Unlike the Western Digital Drive I had before it that failed miserably.

LIAMOHAN

Hi I bought the 2tb version, the only fault i can find is the lack of direct dts support, otherwise this little fella would have topped my 9euro WIRELESS xbox controllers as best buy 2012!! Absolute beast of a machine, transfer rate of 30mb/s, me stacking up my hd shizzle!!

BostonB

CaSCaDe711 wrote: »

Seagate drives love to fail, you've been warned :rolleyes:

Any drive can fail so you should have a backup.