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Published: Nov 18, 2009 Author: Ville Ilonen Editor: Amber Lupala Provider: Raidsonic Share this article:

Introduction & first looks

Raidsonic is well known for their internal and external RAID-enclosures. This time however we have something totally different. Raidsonic Icybox IB-MP305A-B is their newest FullHD capable mediaplayer with network interface. Let's have a look how it performs as full featured mediacenter in home use.

About Raidsonic:

RaidSonic Technology GmbH was founded in Hamburg 1999. To realize our future visions and the rising requirements, RaidSonic moved to Ahrensburg (20 min. away from Hamburg) in May 2004. The capacity of our new warehouse, our permanent improving logistic and the expanded technical support keeps us optimistic to look into the future. As a manufacturer we have direct influence on product design concering quality, functionality and equipment. We constantly use high quality components and because of this decisive reason our products have a strong position in the upper market segment.

Our vision in a constantly gowing IT market is to develop products, which come your dreams ahead! Our extensive product portfolio, which we distribute Europe-wide, combine internal and external solutions for the application of mass storage, for industrial and professional applications as well  for the private shpere, too. Through our all along increasing know-how, good results in research and development and our good cooperation with our longtime customers we could achieve a dynamic growth.

More information available at www.raidsonic.de

Specifications & features:

• Stylish Aluminium enclosure
• Powerful Media Chip RealTek RTD1073 inside
• Including DTS, Dolby Digital, WMA and
AAC downmix support
• Supports: LAN 10/100 Mbps, RJ-45
• Supports: up to WiFi iEEE802.11n
(optional WiFi USB dongle required)
• Integrated Web radio function (MMS based)
• Video: MPEG-1, MPEG-2, MPEG-4: Xvid, WMV9, ISO, VOB,
IFO, MP4, DAT, MOV, AVI, MKV, H.264, TS, TP, M2TS, FLV
• Audio: MP3/OGG/WMA/WAV/AAC
• Image: HD-JPEG, JPG, BMP
• Supported cards: SD/SD-HC/MMC/MS
• Audio out: Stereo 2 Ch (RCA), SPDIF (optical)
• Video out: HDMI 1.3, Composite, Component
• File System: NTFS/FAT32
• Transfer rates: USB 2.0 up to 480 Mbit/s
• Supports Windows up to XP/Vista/Win7, MAC OS >9/X,
• Controllable by remote control
• Opt. WLAN Dongle b/g up to 54Mbps no. 70202
   or WLAN Dongle b/g/n up to 300Mbps no. 70305

The Product:

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IB-MP305 comes in a black colored cardboard box. The front side of the packet shows us the picture of the product with the list of interfaces in it. On the other side of the packet it shows us the specifications and features of the product  including supported video and audio formats.

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Looking inside the packet reveals nothing new. The mediaplayer is well packaged in foam. Included with the product are couple videocables, power supply, remote control and manuals. Unfortunately a HDMI-cable is not included so the component cable is the best option in the picture if you do not intend to buy one extra cable with the IB-MP305.