Lacie LaCinema Rugged Expert Reviews

We're unclear about why a media drive needs ruggedizing. To LaCie's credit, the rubber-coated aluminum shell is attractive, but looks are about the only good thing this unit offers. Headaches, on the other hand, are its specialty. The spartan menu ...

Easy setup. No software required. HDMI and optical audio out

Miserable format support. LaCie could have put more effort into the remote, considering that it's the only way to operate the drive

The Rugged drive has an HDMI interface for connecting to your HD TV, with maximum resolution of 1080i, and an upscaling option for standard-def files. It also has composite video output and a separate SCART adaptor for older types of TV, along with a ...

Rugged, portable design with HDMI and upscaling option

Needs to support and play wider range of music and video file formats

Lacie's LaCinema Rugged is an attempt to stylise the media jukebox and was designed for the company by the 'world-famous' industrial designer Neil Poulton. It's certainly a tidy looking device whose distinguishing feature is a removable ...

The LaCinema Rugged is overly basic, suffers from numerous operational problems and doesn't offer a great degree of media control. It also crashed and froze-up a number of times during testing and, despite the nice design, we have to say that this is ...

Although installed in the house, hard drives are true multimedia with their sedentary congestion. LaCie is trying to address this problem with (...)