NEUMI Atom 4K Lite Ultra-HD Digital Media Player for USB Drives and SD Cards - Plays 4K UHD

Modern TVs should be able to do slide shows all by themselves, but I've never found one that could be programmed to turn itself on at, e.g., 10 am every day and start going through images on a USB stick. An LG TV, at least, can be programmed to turn itself on and show whatever is on HDMI2, for example. If you plug this Neumi device into HDMI2, therefore, you can have a digital photo frame on your wall during the daytime instead of a big black void. There are two menus that you need to use, one for the overall device (set to autoplay photos) and one for the slide show itself. The settings seem to be sticky so they should survive power failures. For autoplay you need to format a USB drive as NTFS and put all of the photos at the top level of the drive (can't organize into folders). This device comes with a wall wart, which makes no sense in our age of USB/USB-C. This makes it tough to have the device turn on/off with the TV. Also, the remote is infrared-based instead of radio/Bluetooth. It would be better if one could control this from a phone via Bluetooth or at least with an RF-based remote so that the box could be hidden behind the TV. It doesn't seem to have an option to display either the filename or a caption associated with each photo. The device is compact enough to travel with so if you need to do a slide show on a TV at an event and don't want to rely on a laptop computer this could be useful. Read more

It's working as advertised and well worth the $. I've had connectivity issues on one part of my room and where my bed is so I've put lots of stuff on chip - also my own music, music, photos - and these devices play it well. The ONLY complaint - not worth a star but it's a warning in case - they seem largely in one "Mode" or another. That is you have to go to the root menu to play Videos, to play audio only files and then again to view photos... I don't see why they can't make them just do all of it. This particular model does load most files rapidly and has more options but can't rotate photos without going to the setup it seems. An earlier one (different brand) did rotate photos and had a cool zoom feature BUT it took forever for any image > old school SD media to load and did it EVERY time so if you backed out of the photo into the same directory you'd have to wait fora slow crawl. Not here. It also plays more files without error or saying non-supported format vs the earlier model (different brand I think) bought 5+ years ago. Also this thing's remote doesn't disrupt a Insignia or Samsung TV which that earlier one did. I'm just posting these in case anyone has those issues. This is an edge tech but pretty fun and worth the $. Read more

We ripped much of our music CDs to an external hard drive and also stored our music videos on it. We were surprised to learn we could connect the hard drive to our Sony Blu-Ray/dvd player with a USB cable and play these files over our TV. However we have more than one TV and didn't want to move the dvd player back and forth. With a quick search we learned there was such a thing as a media player. We bought the NEUMI device because it was the cheapest on Amazon at the time and it had good reviews. We plugged it in (hard drive to NEUMI by USB, NEUMI to TV by HDMI) and ta-da! it worked. It actually recognized the hard drive with less fuss than the dvd player does. The picture and sound quality are, as far as I can tell, the same (although the small TV is a limiting factor for the sound). The remote is pretty easy to use and has positive "feel" to it - no delay or need to press more than once. We play .flac, .mp3 and even .wav audio files and .mp4 video files and have had no problems (some of the video files are over 2 Gb in size.) We use a 4 TB Western Digital external hard drive also with no problems. One criticism is the NEUMI usually doesn't show the metadata (artist, song title, album) for the music files although there is a place for it on the screen--it does show the file name which is usually the song title. The Sony dvd player does show the metadata for the same files. Also, sometimes it is hard to navigate backwards without going past the screen you want. All in all, it's a good little device than does what we want it to. I'd say 4 and a half stars but I'm rounding up to 5. (If it starts having problems or stops working, I'll update my review.) We're in the process of downsizing and we think that with a decent sound bar we won't bother with a separate stereo system. Read more

This player works great, support many codecs. I mounted this in my mini-van by using a USB 5v plug. I wished the player would resume playback on power up. I once left a micro SD card plugged into an adapter and played videos overnight...the next day the micro SD card melted the adapter! Sticking to full size SD or USB flash from now on... Read more

We got the 1080p version because we planned to hook this up to our 32” trailer tv. We’ve become a custom to streaming our movies and we wanted to avoid bringing discs with us. This thing works great. It’s super simple to use and it’s so compact. The picture quality looks good and the sound is good too. We haven’t had any issues with it so far. There are just two things I’d like to point out. This version is compatible with usb and sd cards. I chose this because I figured it gave me even more options since I could always use a sd to micro sd converter. This is true, but as I found the sd card does not fit flushly into the device, it sticks out. I should have figured because this is how sd cards typically work, but I’d forgotten this. Second, in our trailer while using this device the audio doesn’t play through the surround sound. This is unfortunate, but expected. Read more