Portable media centres are expensive little weapons. But this Oompah- Loompah from Goodmans is almost an impulse buy. Around £260 gets you a respectable looking media player that'll record video from any source you care to thrust its SCART lead into.
The software on the Goodmans X-Pro is disgusting. We used the box it came in as a sick bag while navigating through the cutesy icons. Perhaps some will like it – but if you do we're worried about you.
Especially infuriating is the player's lack of native support for anything except asf movies. To play a DivX movie we had to use the included software to re-encode the entire movie as an .asf – this takes decades even on a high-spec machine. If you're planning on encoding movies from a friend's collection you'll want to take an overnight bag.
We'll be taking a more detailed look at the Goodmans X-Pro, but for now it's in purgatory.
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