LaCie 301461KUA LaCinema Rugged 500 GB USB 2.0 Multimedia Hard Disk
- Rugged, external USB 2.0 hard drive and media player holds 500 GB of digital media files
- Plays all popular video, music, and photo formats
- Rugged scratch- and shock-resistant design by Neil Poulton
- Remote control included
- Device measures 3.5 x 1 x 5.7 (WxHxD); backed by a two-year warranty
The new LaCinema Rugged by LaCie will allow you to access and enjoy your files on any television. You can watch television shows and movies, listen to music, and create photo slideshows to share with your friends and family. Created for LaCie by world-famous industrial designer Neil Poulton, the LaCinema Rugged goes beyond ordinary multimedia hard disks with its sophisticated all-terrain design. The LaCinema Rugged features HDMI upscaling, allowing you to watch movies and television programs on your HD TV, or even enjoy your photos in full HD resolution. The LaCinema Rugged allows you to choose from MPEG-1, MPEG-2 (AVI, VOB, IFO, ISO) and MPEG-4 (AVI, XviD) video formats, ensuring easy playback. You¿re free to take your media with you with the LaCinema Rugged; its unique varnished, scratch-protected aluminum shell and shock-resistant rubber sleeve make it especially resistant to harsh elements for extra protection wherever you go. You can be confident that your important digital media… More >>
LaCie 301461KUA LaCinema Rugged 500 GB USB 2.0 Multimedia Hard Disk
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4 comments
Thuy T. Pham on October 30, 2009 at 10:07 pm
I got it hooked up to the TV and it only showed black and white movies. Some of the AVI couldn’t recognized by the LaCie itself. So I thought, it might be me, who didn’t know how to operate. I gave it to a friend to try and he couldn’t even get anything out of it.
Very disappointing!!!!!!!! Not recommended to anyone.
S. Lam on October 31, 2009 at 12:49 am
LaCie 301461KUA LaCinema Rugged 500 GB USB 2.0 Multimedia Hard Disk
For a Lacie product, I thought the interface would be much more refined. Has 4 options, video, music, photos, and all folders. The first three starts directly at the respective folders and you only see the respective file types (you can move around to different folders, it just STARTS at a specific predefined folder). The last option you can see all types of media files in a directory tree starting at the root.
You can rip DVDs into ISO format and it will play just like a you had the dvd in there. Seems to play most divx/xvid files I threw at it. Annoying it takes about 10s just to start a 700mb XVID file. There is option to skip direction to a time on a movie. Kinda of a pain to get back to where you left off even at 32x (max) fast forward.
Construction seems very solid.
For some reason, even the lastest v.5.15E firmware doesn’t remember settings or where you left off on a movie. Connected to HDMI, i have to hit a button EVERYTIME I turn on to display in HDMI and then go into the settings to change it to 1080i (max res) every single time! Totally Inexcusable and incredibly annoying.
Charles Valenzuela on October 31, 2009 at 1:56 am
Works great. I use with my Mac and my Win XP computers. Compact and portable. You will need to go immediately to the LaCie website to download and install the latest firmware update. Will not work with the accessory rubber bumpers in assorted colors as this device has a light / IR sensor on the end for the remote-control. Regular LaCie rugged drives do not have that, so there is no slot in the rubber bumper to accommodate it. You’ll have to live with the supplied black rubber bumper. All LaCie stuff works really great. I love their stuff!
M. A. Westphal on October 31, 2009 at 2:41 am
The LaCinema Rugged does not display any HD content. It only upscales movies that are 720×480 or smaller – and not very well. I had a very difficult time finding this out. LaCie’s once stellar support took days to come up with this answer. The documentation says which formats it can read but does not list anything about which resolutions in those formats work. The error messages displayed on the TV only say, “this format is not supported”, or in some cases, the file name is not shown in the list at all…
As for updating the firmware, it isn’t difficult, but not documented very well.
I love LaCie disk drives – the D2 Quadra is a fantastic drive. But the LaCinema Rugged needs some work on the TV side – and much better documentation.