The drive works perfectly as an external hard drive on the laptop. When connected to a tv through the hdmi I'm finding that sometimes the av menu appears and sometimes, no matter what i do, it doesn't and there appears to be no video output being...

Item works great BUT...

I have had one of these for a week now and it works really well. When connected to the ac adaptor, it functions as a very responsive media player with whatever 2.5" sata drive you choose to install - which is very simple to do. Disconnect ac, connect...