Summary of the content on the page No. 1
User Guide
Version 1.4
unibrain
www.unibrain.com support@unibrain.com sales@unibrain.com
1
Summary of the content on the page No. 2
iZak User Guide November 2004 Congratulations of buying your iZak Portable Media Center. iZak is a Portable Digital Multimedia Storage and Player device that you can connect to any PC or Mac via USB-2 (plug & play) in order to copy your favorite contents (music, movies, pictures, data files). Once you have transferred your data to iZak, you can connect it to any TV to enjoy your movies, music and photos. You can watch your favorite films in HDTV quality Video and Dolby Digital
Summary of the content on the page No. 3
iZak User Guide Table of Contents TABLE OF CONTENTS...........................................................................................................3 TECHNICAL SUPPORT INFORMATION................................................................................5 FEATURES OF IZAK ...........................................................................................................6 LIGHT DESIGN..........................................................................
Summary of the content on the page No. 4
iZak User Guide MAIN MENU .............................................................................................................................26 MOVIES ...................................................................................................................................26 MUSIC .....................................................................................................................................27 PICTURES .................................................
Summary of the content on the page No. 5
iZak User Guide Technical Support Information All technical support questions should be directed to the following email address: support@unibrain.com This address is monitored throughout the day by Unibrains 1394 support team, who will respond quickly and with the required technical accuracy, to your questions. For pricing and marketing information, please e-mail at: sales@unibrain.com For ordering any Unibrain product please visit: http://www.unibrain.com/ 5
Summary of the content on the page No. 6
iZak User Guide Features of iZak Light Design Everything you love about multimedia, movies, music and photos is brought to you with iZak. The slim and elegant design of iZak lets you bring along enough storage capability of up to 80Gbytes or up to 1,000,000 Photos in VGA, or 20,000 MP3 songs, or 80 MPEG4 (DivX) movies, or 15 MPEG2 (DVD) movies. 14 cm iZak features an elegant, plastic, transparent and light case protecting your device. The dimensions of iZak
Summary of the content on the page No. 7
iZak User Guide PC/Mac connection iZak can be connected to any PC or Mac via USB interface supporting all file formats: FAT32, NTFS, HFS+ (Mac OS extended). With up to 480 Mbps transfer rate (in USB-2 connections) you can quickly move large multimedia files from your host to iZak. Please notice that you dont need external power adaptor because iZak is powered by the USB bus power. TV connection When connecting iZak to your TV set and audio system you get the optimum multimedi
Summary of the content on the page No. 8
iZak User Guide Remote iZak is equipped with an elegant infrared remote control providing standard DVD functionality buttons. It is small in design (just 150 x 50 mm) and as thinnest possible (8mm). Please refer to the chapter TV Connection for a detailed description of the remote functionality. Firmware update You will be able to upgrade your device with new features and capabilities by just following 1 the firmware upgrade procedure: • Get the latest update from Unibrains
Summary of the content on the page No. 9
iZak User Guide Awards Unibrain Awarded Top Honors for iZak as the winner of The Best of RetailVision Awards for Hardware products at the 2004 RetailVision Europe, held September 21-23 in Munich, Germany. The RetailVision is the premier global event for the retail channel. The Best of RetailVision Awards honours excellence in innovation, channel strategy, and presentation for products. The awards are selected by the Top 100-Level Retailers who attend RetailVision and buy 60 bi
Summary of the content on the page No. 10
iZak User Guide Package Contents Before proceeding with the product installation and usage, please verify that you received the following: Check Re-order Item Part picture Part Description codes (√) Your iZak portable media center with 40GB or 80GB Hard Disk capacity. 1 Please notice that the device is not intended to be opened by the user. Attends to open will void the Warranty! Power adaptor with USA: automatic voltage 8016 changeover 110V/220V. Europe/Asia: 2 P
Summary of the content on the page No. 11
iZak User Guide Check Re-order Item Part picture Part Description (√) codes USA: AV Cable Standard 8013 (Composite RCA, Europe/Asia: 5 S-Video mini DIN, 24-ZAVSTD-CAB Left/Right Analogue Audio Bar code: RCA) 81985700 813 4 USA: 8019 Digital Audio Cable SPDIF Europe/Asia: 6 Coaxial 24-ZSPCOP-CAB (RCA to mini jack) Bar code: 81985700 819 6 USB 2 Cable USA: (A to mini B). 8021 In order to have Europe/Asia: 7 maximum transfer rate 24-ZUSB01-CAB and reliabili
Summary of the content on the page No. 12
iZak User Guide Moreover you can buy from Unibrain optional cables that provide better video signal quality: Order Item Part picture Part Description codes USA: AV Cable for YPbPr 8014 (YPbPr Color Europe/Asia: 1 Component Video - 3 24-ZAVYUV-CAB RCA, Left/Right Bar code: Analogue Audio RCA) 81985700 814 1 ` AV Cable USA: for SCART RGB 8011 (SCART with RGB Europe/Asia: 2 24-ZAVRGB-CAB support, Left/Right Bar code: Analogue Audio RCA) 81985700 811 0 (Europe only) U
Summary of the content on the page No. 13
iZak User Guide CD Contents iZak is accompanied with the required CD that has this manual in Acrobat PDF format. The folder structure Firmware, Music, Pictures, Movies, is the same as the iZak device and can be used as backup in case you format the disk of iZak. In detail: Acrobat: contains Adobe Acrobat Reader. Install it in case you dont have, in order to read the iZak manuals that are in .pdf format. Firmware: this is the folder that contains the iZak fir
Summary of the content on the page No. 14
iZak User Guide 4. Maya - Battlefield Music by Yannis Kyris 5. RISKO - A cigarette Music by Fotis Halkias - Lyrics by Adonis Karalis Each one of the above five music contents are encoded in five music format: AAC: stored in the subfolder AAC MP3: stored in the subfolder MP3 OGG Vorbis: stored in the subfolder OGG WAV: stored in the subfolder WAV WMA: stored in the subfolder WMA We hope you enjoy them as much as we did! Pictures: this is the folder that contai
Summary of the content on the page No. 15
iZak User Guide PC/Mac Connection PC or Mac As is already mentioned, iZak automatically operates as an external USB-2 hard disk of 80GB or 40GB data storage (depending on the model) when connected to a PC or Macintosh.. Your system will automatically recognize iZak as an external hard disk in which you can copy any file(s) you want (music, movie, picture, and data). USB Cable Important: • Always use the included USB2 cable to connect your iZak to your computer. Use of other cable
Summary of the content on the page No. 16
iZak User Guide Acrobat: contains Adobe Acrobat Reader. Install it in case you dont have, in order to read the iZak manuals that are in .pdf format. Firmware: this is the folder in which you copy the latest iZak firmware files found at Unibrains web site. Inside this folder there are two (2) subfolders: • Font for Europe and US this is an empty directory. • Settings that contains the Settings.txt file. This file is a Unicode text file with two strings. The first line s
Summary of the content on the page No. 17
iZak User Guide In order to safely remove your iZak from your system please follow the same procedures as for any Plug n Play external USB device. Specifically: Double click on the taskbar icon to Unplug or Eject hardware. The adjacent dialogue box will appear displaying the PnP external devices. In the current example you can see iZak as a USB Mass Storage Device. In order to remove it, click the device in the list and then click Stop. Click OK to the next
Summary of the content on the page No. 18
iZak User Guide USB support for Win98SE users As has been already mentioned, the accompanying CD contains the W98SE folder that provides the USB drivers for the Windows 98SE users. The installation procedure can be done in one of the following ways: Setup Installation 1. Double click on the "SETUP.EXE" icon 2. When the installation is completed, click "OK" to finish 3. Connect your device and wait for the system to recognize the new hardware 4. Your device is now ready for use Man
Summary of the content on the page No. 19
iZak User Guide TV Connection iZak provides high quality video and audio output when connected to your TV set and audio system. The TV connection is straightforward. Just connect iZak to your TV set (NTSC or PAL) using the included AV cable. Plug the Power Supply adaptor to the USB connection on the iZak and then into the electrical outlet. When using the default AV Cable provided with iZak, you have Composite video signal, S-Video and stereo (Left/Right) analogue audio out co
Summary of the content on the page No. 20
iZak User Guide Analogue Audio Setup The simplest configuration is when S-VIDEO TV the analogue audio system of your or TV set is used. In this case, no matter Composite the type of AV cable you use (the or default providing Composite/S-Video Video Component YPbPr signal, or one of the optional cables or SCART providing Video Component YPbPr or Analogue SCART) the analogue audio is L-R Audio provided to the stereo input of your TV by the Left/Right RCA jacks. iZak This configura
