Mediagate MG-450HD Reviews

MediaGate's new MG-450HD media extender looks very similar to last year's MG-350HD model. In fact, there are only a few differences: The new device has an HDMI output (instead of DVI), SATA hard drive support instead of IDE, and the remote control now ...

Wirelessly loads a local hard drive with content from your PC. Supports high-def playback. Streams audio and photos from PC. Plays content from USB flash drives. Nice-looking user interface.

Poor video-streaming capabilities. Difficult to set up.

The MediaGate MG-450HD living-room media extender offers minor improvement over the original and comes at a slightly lower price.

Reasonably priced media streamer has good file support but a poor user interface and remote.

Full complement of output ports ; Versatile media playback

Immature and buggy interface ; Poor remote control

Overall, the MediaGate is a capable streamer that hits the hardware high notes at a much lower price than the Mvix , but implementation is lacking, as is Web-based video playback. Rough and buggy interfaces are a theme in many of the media streamers ...

A couple of years ago we reviewed AL Tech's MG-350HD and were suitably impressed. The MG-450HD is the next evolution of the MediaGate family, and builds on the solid foundation laid down by two years of firmware revisions and hardware improvements

The MG-450HD is a network-attached multimedia player, designed to be the central portal through which you experience all your digital media