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THE PRODIGY BLACK

Xtreamer packs a nice and long remote control with the Prodigy black, however the buttons are quite small so if you have large fingers that may be a problem. On the bright side the buttons are light sensitive so they illuminate in the dark (I’d rather Xtreamer had placed light illumination but better than nothing).

At first glance the Prodigy Black looks a lot like some mini DVD & A/V amplifier combos so it's quite good looking (largely thanks to the brushed aluminum cover).

However it is somewhat large compared to other similar solutions like the TViX Xroid A1 (the mini players are mostly for general reference).

Three things stand out from the front fascia, the audio control knob (doubles as a power on/off button), the IR receiver and the SD/MMC card reader.

The 3.5" drive tray is placed at the far right and as you can see it has several logos printed on it.

To install an 3.5" drive you just need to pull the tray out, mount the drive (inverted), secure it with the available screws and push it back in (we didn't and it worked fine).

The top brushed aluminum cover extends to both sides of the player.

The company logo is placed at the top.

As expected all the available connectors are placed at the rear of the unit. So from left to right we see the Wi-Fi Antenna, two USB 2.0 ports, USB 3.0 host port, A/V RCA connectors, component video connectors, HDMI 1.4 port, gigabit LAN, digital audio out (optical & coaxial), DC power in and finally the Antenna in and out connectors.

At the belly of the player we see several perforated sections and what seems to be a section ready to install an exhaust fan. I did remove it but i was unable to find a way to mount something on it, instead i was able to take a closer look at some of its interior components (so no real reason to remove the cover).

Xtreamer has placed a large aluminum heatsink above the RTD1186DD (passive cooling).

Four Nanya DDR3-800/1066/1333/1600 128MB SDRAM memory modules are present on the main PCB.

Hynix is the supplier of the onboard flash memory module (256MB).