In the mid-2000s, if you had a hard drive full of AVI files and a TV without USB ports, the Sumvision Cyclone Micro 2 was your best friend. This tiny, cheap, and surprisingly capable media player was the king of "plug-and-play" piracy—er, personal backup playback .

If the device restarts endlessly:

: Adds support for newer video codecs and larger hard drive capacities.

After the update (and the device auto-reboots), you need to perform a from the settings menu. Skipping this causes random reboots.

Wait patiently.