Teufel MediaStation 6 review

Media streamer

Clearly, the PVR isn’t the MediaStation 6’s main focus, but what about media streaming and playback? The interface is certainly quicker and more responsive than many streamers we’ve seen, and format support more comprehensive.

One of the main issues is that there are so many ways of getting at your media that menus become highly complex. For example, you can browse computers and devices on the network as you would in Windows. You then see any shared folders and can browse through the file tree until you find the file you’re looking for. There’s also UPnP, SMB and NFS support.

There were some problems with file handling; for example, the MediaStation claimed some of our files had no ID3 tags, which wasn’t the case. However, it was fast at loading photos and played our 1080p clips with no problems. Fast forwarding and rewinding is handled well, and you can use the left and right direction buttons to jump quickly to a point in the timeline.

As well as streaming media across the network, it can be played directly from USB storage or the SD card slot. If you want to use the 1TB hard disk to store media locally instead of streaming it, you can connect the MediaStation 6 to your PC via USB to copy it quickly into the appropriate folders instead of transferring everything via the network. It’s simple to upgrade the hard disk: two screws secure the panel underneath which the hard disk is mounted to.