The Media Player GUI
The Media Player GUI
Sitecom has been hard at work on their user interface to. The GUI is OK, decent on the eyes, less would have been better though. I find the background a little too busy with that red SITECOM logo on each and every page a little bit too much. Red is just a disturbing color for a GUI / menu.
Being in 1920x1080 you get the high-resolution look and feel of proper HTPC software like say MediaPortal. Though not extremely fast, menu responsiveness feels fast enough.
The menu is divided into Movies, Music, Photos, File Manager and Internet Media; which reminds let me swap back the GUI to English ;)
You browse your media by location or type, while Media Library indexes your files by type, date, genre or artist to name but a few.
The unit also offers on-line functionality such as Picasa, some news Feeds and Flickr. Not sure if anyone uses it, but its fun to see and play around with. You can set up and log into your personal accounts for YouTube, Flickr and Picasa, convenient.
In the setup menu you can select a plethora of options. Since the screen grabs you are looking at are actually taken with a photo-camera they unfortunately came out a little over exposed and distorted. But yeah, you get the idea.
The video settings are a little more basic. Lacking here is say a post processing feature like a little extra image sharpening or gamma. Then again the default output quality has been fine tuned for you already.
Sharp quality with razor sharp contrast and black levels. Still, a little personal tweaking we feel is always an option needed. Of course at the TV end you can and would probably want to tweak a little as well.