Amkette Flash TV: Media Player Review

Amkette Flash TV: Media Player Review

Prasad Naik, Nov 16, 2009 1300 hrs IST

Now watch your movies on a bigger screen

Ultra small design, SD card slot, support for NTFS formatted drives, video upscaling, decent performance, excellent pricing

Slightly cramped remote buttons, cannot downmix multichannel audio to stereo, no optical audio out, no HDMI

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Design & Construction

The design of the Amkette Flash TV is similar to the WD TV Mini. Both have the same small, matchbox like shape. However, the Amkette goes one step further and is even smaller than the WD. It is also lighter and almost weightless. However, this means that it gets moved around a lot by the cables, which are heavier and can easily pull the player with them.

On the front side of the player are the blue LED power indicator and the receiver for the wireless infrared remote controller. On the right side are the USB port and the SD card slot. The Amkette goes one up on the WD TV Mini and includes the SD card slot, which means you can just pluck out the memory card out of your camera and put it in the Flash TV and see the images on your TV. The USB slot on the Flash TV also supports NTFS drives.

On the backside are the ports for connecting the device to your TV. There is a component video output, a composite audio/video output, a coaxial audio output and power input. Unfortunately, there is no optical audio like the one on WD TV Mini.

The build quality of the device is pretty average and it isn't as solid as the WD TV Mini. But again it also costs much less than the WD.

The device also comes with a wireless infrared remote controller. The device is small and light and looks quite decent. However, I found the button arrangement to be less than ideal and the most used keys weren't in the most easy to use locations. Also, the buttons were located too close to each other and weren't very easy to press. The remote had convenient shortcut buttons for jumping to the respective Movie, Photo and Music sections.