Dune HD Center

Applications:

Dune HD Center is to date the most universal and powerful Full HD (1080p) solution with Blu-Ray support which has a power to be a true Center of any most modern home cinema system. With its intuitive user-friendly interface player provides literally all HD and SD video playback features applicable for home use.


Available Models:

• Dune HD Center
• Dune HD Center + Wi-Fi 802.11n
• Dune HD Center + Ethernet 1000 Mb/s
• Dune HD Center + 2 x eSATA

Playback:

• Blu-Ray discs (Profile 1.1/2.0)
• DVD-Video discs
• Files on Blu-Ray (BD-R, BD-RE), DVD (DVD-ROM, DVD+-R, DVD+-RW), CD (CD-ROM, CD-R, CD-RW) discs
• Files on USB drives (USB HDD, USB flash, USB card readers etc)
• Files in local network from PC or NAS (NFS and SMB)
• IPTV (free channels UDP/RTP MPEG-TS, H.264/MPEG-2)
• Internet radio (HTTP/MP3)

The player will support a proprietary implementation of full VoD and HV system called "Dune HD", planned to be launched in future. This system is based on SecureMedia solution, certified by all the Hollywood majors.

• File formats: MKV, MPEG-TS, MPEG-PS, M2TS, VOB, AVI, MOV, MP4, QT, ASF, WMV, DVD-ISO, VIDEO_TS.
• Video codecs: MPEG2, MPEG4, XVID, WMV9, VC1, H.264.
• Audio codecs: AC3 (DD), EAC3 (DD+), DTS, MPEG 1/2/3, AAC, LPCM, WMA, WMAPro, Dolby True HD, DTS HD HRA, DTS HD MA (HD-formats for Blu-Ray playback only).
• Subtitle formats: Plain text, SSA/AAS, SRT, VOB.

Network

• Browsing, copying and direct playback of files from PC and NAS in local network (NFS and SMB protocols).
• Attached storage from local network.
• Playback of Internet radio (HTTP/MP3).
• Playback of IPTV (free channels UDP/RTP MPEG-TS, H.264/MPEG-2).
• NAS function: FTP and SMB servers for accessing player's attached storage from local network.
• Bit-Torrent client for digital content download from Internet.
• Web browser (based on the same engine as used in Mozilla Firefox) for browsing arbitrary Internet sites (with limited possibilities and performance).

Hardware

• Sigma Designs 8634 SoC.
• 384 MB of RAM, 32 MB of flash.
• 2 GB flash drive (optional) to support local storage capability for the newest and future Blu-Ray disks and other player features.
• HDMI 1.3 for ultimate HD video and HD audio performance.
• Optical, coaxial digital and 7.1 analogue audio output.
• Composite, component, S-Video video output.
• Three USB 2.0 ports for connecting external AV sources.
• Ethernet 100 Mb/s and Wi-Fi up to 300 Mb/s (optional).
• Mobile rack with SATA Direct Link for fast and easy HDD exchange to support any audio and video collection on any number of hard discs w/o need to create expensive multi-disc NAS solutions. Any 3.5? SATA HDDs can be used.

Dimensions

• 429mm (width) x 296mm (depth) x 94mm (height)

Blu-Ray video playback support

DVD-Video playback support:

• DVD menu navigation is supported.
• Sources:
• Commercial DVD-Video disks:
• Internal DVD drive.
• USB DVD drives.
• ISO images, VIDEO_TS folders:
• Internal HDD.
• Internal DVD drive.
• USB mass storage devices (USB HDD, USB flash memory).
• USB DVD drives.
• NFS network folders.
• SMB network folders.

Media files playback support:

• Sources:
• Internal HDD.
• Internal DVD drive.
• USB mass storage devices (USB HDD, USB flash memory).
• USB DVD drives.
• NFS network folders.
• SMB network folders.
• HTTP URLs (limited support).
• Containers:
• MPEG (MPEG-TS, MPEG-PS, VOB, M2TS) (typical file extensions: .MPG, .TS, .M2TS, .TP, .VOB).
• AVI (typical file extensions: .AVI).
• MOV, MP4 (typical file extensions: .MOV, .MP4, .QT).
• MKV (typical file extensions: .MKV).
• ASF (typical file extensions: .ASF, .WMV).
• DVD-ISO, VIDEO_TS (DVD-Video playback, including DVD menu support).
• Raw video.
• Raw audio (typical file extensions: .WAV, .MP3).
• Video codecs:
• MPEG2.
• MPEG4.
• XVID.
• WMV9.
• VC1.
• H.264.
• Audio codecs:
• AC3 (DD).
• EAC3 (DD+).
• DTS.
• MPEG (layers 1/2/3).
• AAC.
• LPCM.
• WMA.
• WMAPro.
• Embedded subtitle formats:
• In MKV: plain text, SSA/ASS.
• In MP4: VOB.
• External subtitle formats:
• SRT.
• External audio streams:
• AC3.
• DTS.

IPTV:

• Protocols:
• Multicast UDP (raw).
• Multicast RTP.
• Format:
• MPEG-TS container.
• MPEG2 video codec (SD and HD resolutions).

Extended set of supported video modes:

• HDMI:
• 480i, 480p (60 Hz)
• 576i, 576p (50 Hz)
• 720p (50 Hz, 60 Hz)
• 1080i (50 Hz, 60 Hz)
• 1080p (24 Hz, 25 Hz, 30 Hz, 50 Hz, 60 Hz)
• 1024×768, 1280×1024, 1280×768, 1280×960, 1360×768, 1366×768, 1400×1050, 1440×900, 1600×1200, 1680×1050, 1920×1200 (60 Hz)
• Component:
• PAL
• NTSC
• 480p (60 Hz)
• 576p (50 Hz)
• 720p (24 Hz, 25 Hz, 30 Hz, 50 Hz, 60 Hz)
• 1080i (48 Hz, 50 Hz, 60 Hz)
• 1080p (24 Hz, 25 Hz, 30 Hz, 50 Hz, 60 Hz)
• Composite:
• PAL
• NTSC
• Note: some video modes may be not supported ? it depends on the player mode, type of data being played back, and peculiarities of video hardware connected to the player.

Product Specifications

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