With space at a premium in many Hong Kong flats, it would be convenient to use a single, compact device to play all your digital music, pictures and movies on the television in the living area.
Korean firm Dvico thought about that, too, and has released the TViX multimedia player to do the job.
The TViX model M3000U I tested supports most of the video formats in use - including mpeg-1, mpeg-2 and mpeg-4. Using a 400-gigabyte hard drive, the TViX can accommodate about 57 DVD movies or 400 VCD movies.
The device measures 122.5 x 171.8 x 68.5mm and weighs 1.2kg with a 3.5-inch hard disk drive, which makes it small and light enough to stow in your luggage. It also comes with an internal power supply for maximum mobility.
That means you can download a video collection or home movies on to the TViX and take it on your next holiday.
It supports multilingual subtitles and closed caption, and movies on either widescreen (16:9) or standard (4:3) aspect ratio formats. Files are transferred from a personal computer through the device's USB 2.0 port. Files on Real Media and Quick Time formats are not supported.