The media streaming market is on the up and has been well cornered in the UK by companies like D-Link,Archos and Linksys, offering a range of devices designed to help you share media around the home. Korean manufacturer DVICO also makes a good trade in this area and has been quietly farming out products to our shores over the last few years.

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The TViX 6500a on test is the self-styled ‘most advanced jukebox on the planet', and seems to justify this moniker by offering features like version 1.3 HDMI support and a wide range of file compatibility previously unheard of in this arena. It's a fairly compact unit that can be fitted with a SATA hard drive or bought with up to 1TB of preinstalled storage.

Without an internal drive you can still take advantage of the network streaming capabilities or view content directly from connected USB storage. It offers a range of connectivity from composite to component, the aforementioned HDMI and optical or composite audio. Setting things up from a basic standpoint using these connections is straightforward, but getting things hooked up to a network is a bit of a pain.