Uebo M200 Bronze review

The M200’s format support is excellent, but it didn’t support menu navigation for our Blu-ray rip. Both video and menu support is present for DVD ISO rips, though, and all our test files worked. Video playlists aren’t supported but the streamer will happily play entire directories in sequence. You have to click next twice to move to the next video or audio track; this means you can’t accidentally skip in the middle of a movie but it’s not very helpful if you want to skip through an album.

We noticed a brief pause before audio tracks started playing. UPnP and Media Library indexed files are displayed in album order but those shared via SMB were listed alphabetically. Photo slideshows work, but you don’t get a thumbnail index and skipping images is slow.

The basic M200 costs $210 US, which is around £135. Although everything’s priced in US dollars, UK orders are actually shipped from Ireland for a reasonable $25 (around £16). It has most of the features you’re likely to want from a media streamer, especially if you want to fit a hard disk. However, some features lack polish, particularly photo browsing. The Western Digital WD TV Live Hub is similarly priced, comes with a hard disk and easier to use.