today I have a media Network media player box to unbox and this is from a
new brand that most of you probably aren't familiar with but based on what I
know about the company and the people involved I am I have very high
expectations for this particular product so let's have a look at what we've got
on the front here in terms of features so it's HD ready full 1080p okay
supports hard drives up to 3 terab we have optional uh optional ability to add
Wireless N okay we've got gigabit LAN USB 3 that's a cool feature supports
Blu-ray disc isos very nice 5.1 and 7.1
are both supported it supports UPnP as well as DNA we have support for
subtitles including SRT SMI and SSA we can download files from HTTP SMB
or FTP it says allinone here what I
think they mean is in terms of file format so you got TS MKV mov M Peg all
of that on there it has a browser it supports web TV it supports bit torrent
and supports RSS so this is the AOS from
pivos let's go around to the back it supports USB wired or wireless keyboard
and mouse here's a bunch of the services that can be used with this little unit
right here including Picassa flicker YouTube HTML 5 Google Talk Yahoo all
right moving right along on the box the box that brings you the best of HD so
the AOS HD media centers a full 1080p HD
playback capability combined with the latest surround sent and digital audio technology provide the best inhome
entertainment experience for you and your family you can share files via
connected storage devices Network or Google talk with an intuitive file
management system plays the most popular media file formats that include ISO
Blu-ray ISO with navigation and many
many more streams online media okay
plays from anywhere play your favorite video audio files from USB storage flash
media external storage network attached storage or network computers connects
the web and your friends so you can actually sit on your TV or on your couch
watching your TV and you can use Google talk or whatever else and you can
download Bluetooth oh yeah cuz BT means
Bluetooth in this context bit torrent
files all right let's open up the box
and have a look at this guy like I said I mean the boxes for these Network media
players can say whatever they want but at the end of the day it's going to come
down to the software and like I said from what I know about the team behind
this one I have very high expectations for this
box all right so let's pull out the unit
itself and put it aside for now and then
I'm going to go ahead and have a look in here at what we've got in terms of
accessories so first thing we find is a
very large remote so unlike some of the barebones remote you see with these
Network media players this guy's got all of the numbers we could want uh you can
well it's got like record button and all this stuff here going on okay so I'm not
going to go too much in detail about which buttons are on there but you can
feel free to sort of here want to get in close and then just do like a pans shot
of everything that's on the controller okay runs off ablea batteries pardon me
AAA batteries and it comes with a couple AAA batteries for you to use next we
have a power brick pretty standard looking power brick nothing out of the
ordinary here and a power cable for the power brick plugs into the brick and
Powers the Box finally we have a USB 3
cable and that oh okay that's handy so the usb3 cable presumably plugs into the
AOS unit itself and allows you to yeah
to uh plug into your PC and transfer files to the internal hard drive that
you install very nice very nice feature so you'll be able to transfer things
much faster than competing players we've also got a composite cable which I would
definitely not recommend you use we've got a couple hard drive screws but yeah
you should definitely use um HDMI with a unit like this it is HD ready after all
here's your user guide including how to install a hard drive connect things to
it stream via UPnP all that good stuff so hopefully you can see everything
that's in there all right and next we have a quick guide get acquainted what's
in the box how to connect it to various things including your router your NZ all
that good stuff tips tips and more more
tips and let's have a look at the unit
itself so the front of it is a very sort of clean slick professional
look there we go it's glossy on the front and then it's got kind of a
brushed aluminum brushed Metal finish on the sides here it's got a little readout
for time little re readout indicating that it's playing back there's a USB
connection there's your IR receiver for
the remote on the top you can see we got a brushed Metal finish there as well
very professional look for uh AV
Equipment look at that look how easy it is to install a hard drive oh that's
cool so all you do is you throw the drive in with these two pegs in the
right spots and then you put one screw here and one screw
here and Slide the oops you got to be right side up to do that and Slide the
whole thing back into the unit look at that very easy
cool I think I did it wrong yep after all that I did it wrong
again there we go that's how it goes back in nice and flush this time okay so
moving along to the other side not a whole lot going on there we got rubberized feet on the bottom once again
very nice brushed finish overall to the unit there's a USB 2.0 Port didn't see
that before so that you can just have this at the front of your media center
you can go ahead and plug a USB stick in there or whatever the case may be and
you can easily play off a USB stick now in terms of output options You' actually
got a very wide variety on this unit because of it's slightly larger size
than some competing solutions that gives you a little bit more room on the back
for different options so you've actually got component composite coax and optical
digital audio out Lan here this is gigabit Lan mind you two more USB 2.0
ports so that was the one on the front and two on the back HDMI out USB 3 for
transferring files to the internal hard drive that you can opt install finally
power in and an onoff switch it does have a fan and hopefully I'll have a
chance to let you guys know if it gets loud but I wouldn't really expect it to
there's not uh not too much in here that
you'd need to have like a tornado style fan going on in order to get the full
functionality out of the machine so actually give me one moment guys so I
missed one other handy feature there's actually an SDHC reader on the other
side of the unit opposite the USB 2.0 Port so if you take a video on your
camera for example and you want to show it to everyone you go ahead you take
your video you pop it out you throw it in there and now you can play it back so
with the included HTML 5 browser you can access all the best content on the
internet with your network share capabilities you can actually access all
the content that's on here from elsewhere including your other computers
at home with the file with the network browsing on the unit itself you can
access files that are Elsewhere on your network and finally you can access files
that are stored on the internal hard drive so it's a very fully featured
Network media player and I hope to have some time to check it out in the near
future thanks for watching my unboxing of the AOS HD Media Center Online is
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