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Patriot Box Office HD Media Player Review
| Manufacturer: | Patriot Memory |
| Product: | Patriot Box Office (PCMPB025) |
| Date: | Thu, Nov 19, 2009 - 12:00 AM |
| Written By: | Ken Brown - |
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Patriot’s Box Office - A New Player in the Game
Over the past year, we have really seen a boom in home media appliances. These devices make it easier for you to share the multimedia that is on your computer with the rest of your house or office. In the past, the best devices have been those that can access the internet, a local drive, or a network attached storage device easily so that you can play or view your content in any room of your home. Most enthusiasts choose to build their own do-it-yourself devices or Home Theater Personal Computers (HTPC). Depending on your choice of Motherboard, RAM, video card and case, HTPCs can cost anywhere from $300 to more than $1000. Multimedia and storage companies have seen a niche that they can fill by providing the public with devices that can perform the basic functions of a Home Theater PC for less than $150.
Last week, Patriot introduced the $129 ($99 After Rebate) Box Office HD Media Server, a brand new device to compete in this emerging market. The Box Office is designed to be an all-in-one solution for high definition media play back, file transfer, and internet video streaming.
Of course we have seen Patriot memory products for a while here at Legit Reviews, so we were pretty excited to hear that Patriot was introducing a media player that supports our favorite audio and video formats. The Patriot Box Office has support for USB storage devices with three USB ports, as well as room for an onboard 2.5” SSD or HDD. The Box Office outputs it’s HD video via its HDMI or Composite outputs. With the Box Office’s full-sized remote control, support for UPnP, Dolby Digital and DTS surround sound, it looks like Patriot has really put together a nice looking box.
Key Features and Specifications:
- Supports Full HD-video playback up to 1080p
- Supports Dolby® Digital and DTS™ surround sound
- Expandable internal storage via 2.5” SATA SSD/HDD
- Supports video playback via UPnP network streaming
- Browse for shared videos, photos and music from networks and USB
- Flash Drives and USB external storage
- Supports file transfer between HDD, USB, Network PC and NAS
- Built in P2P file download management
- File formats supported
- Audio Decoding - WMA, MP3, Real Audio (RA)
- Image Decoding - JPEG, BMP, PNG
- Video Decoding - *[MPEG-1] MPG/MPEG/DAT
- *[MPEG-2] MPG/MPEG/VOB/ISO /IFO/TS/TP/M2TS
- *[MPEG-4] MP4/AVI/MOV
- *[H.264/AVC] MKV/TS/AVI/MOV/M2TS
- *[DviX 3/4/5/6, Xvid] AVI/MKV
- *[WMV9] WMV
- *[FLV] FLV
- [Real Video 8/9/10] RM/RMVB support up to 720p
- Subtitle - SRT, MicroDVD SUB, SSA, SUB/IDX
- *Support up to 1080p
- Aluminum casing and metal shielding, and built-in quiet Cooling FAN.
- Support Dolby Digital AC3?DTS Decoding & HDMI RAW/SPDIF RAW output to Amplifier to decode 5.1/7.1 audio channels
- Support Multi Language OSD & Select the encoding for subtitle file, file name and folder name display from Unicode (UTF8), Simplified Chinese, and Traditional Chinese or others
- Firmware upgradeable
- Power Adapter, 100-240 VAC(47Hz~63Hz), 12V/2A output
- Dimension: 143mm(L)* 146mm(W)* 39mm(H)
- OS support: Windows ME/ 2000/ XP/ VISTA/ 7/ MAC OS9.0 and Above, Linux with Kernel 2.4.1.0 or above
Next Page - Patriot Box Office – A Look Inside
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Page 1 - Patriot’s Box Office - A New Player in the Game
Page 2 - Patriot Box Office – A Look Inside Page 3 - Patriot Box Office – Setting Up Page 4 - Patriot Box Office – HD Performance Page 5 - Using an SSD with the Patriot Box Office Page 6 - Final Thoughts and Conclusions |