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welcome to my unboxing and first look at the PBO Alpine so this is the successor

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to the immensely popular Patriot box office so you can see here up in the

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corner it is powered by Android 2.2

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although it should be you got to bear in mind that you can't necessarily install

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you know Angry Birds on it or anything like that but it is still compatible

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with apps whether developed by Patriot or whether developed by end users who

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want to enable more functionality on the device so you can use apps but not

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necessarily the entire you know Marketplace like you can use on your phone because most of the apps require

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touchcreen which is obviously not present so this is a full HD Media

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Player yes it is compatible with 1080p it better be at this point does YouTube

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HDMI it has DTS as well as Dolby Digital let's go ahead and flip it around so

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full HD all-in-one media player built over the Android 2.2 o free

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your digital media library from the constraints of a PC and Brides digital media to your home and entertainment

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system brings your entire media library to the comfort of your living room now one of the things that was so great

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about Patriot box office was the huge compatibility with file formats and

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we've seen a continuation of that with the PBO Alpine and that's one of the

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things that Patriot will continue to work on in order to make it as useful as

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possible compatible with a variety of different video formats different

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containers images audio and you can see there's a little bit of information

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about the hardware here so it has an ARM CPU up to 500 MHz

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um two USB 2.0 ports works with a

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keyboard and mouse which is kind of neat as well as HDMI 1.3b output so you can't

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do Native 3D it's just something to remember guys um optional Wi-Fi with a

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USB adapter that is sold separately so let's go ahead and open it up and see

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what we can see one of the things you'll notice about it compared to the original

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box office is that it is very very small

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which is fantastic if you want to use it for something like digital signage for

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example uh so you can just mount it somewhere discreet and out of the way

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without worrying about anyone walking off with it it's also good if you just

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want an overall clean looking media PC

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area so you don't have to or media PC TV area so you don't have to have like some

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huge clunky box cluttering things up now

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the drawback of that is that it isn't unfortunately compatible with um adding

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an internal hard drive but for the smaller size I guess

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we'll have to live with that so inside the box we have an AC

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adapter an HDMI cable a user manual on

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disk as well as a remote so the remote

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has all of your basic functionality navigation enter play stop forward back

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other more different forward back menu info subtitles and audio power volume

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and that pretty much does it now in terms of interface Patriots actually

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taking a fairly unique approach with this where they have kind of a stock um

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more basic firmware that is going to be designed for if your grandma wants to

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watch like Korean soaps and you don't

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want to like be dealing with it every other day going over there and helping

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her figure it out you just give her the stock firmware here you go Grandma enjoy

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you know you set up the network share once for her because she probably is

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going to have trouble with that and it can actually ah yes this diagram is

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useful it can pull media from a variety of different sources whether it's wired

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or or over Wireless whether it's you know mobile or a UPnP or DNA compatible

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device or even a PC sorry where was I going with that

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right so they have the easy firmware for Grandma and then if you want Patriots

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also developing in parallel a more Enthusiast friendly stream where they're

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going to be reaching out to the community and finding out what they want

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out of this because again that was one of the things that was great about the box office was that they Continue to

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update the functionality over time so if you're an Enthusiast that's the one

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you're going to want to go for now on the outside see not a whole lot because

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this is a very very small device so you got a few little logos there you got

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your SD card as well as your USB remember you can play media directly off

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of something plugged into the PBO Alpine you don't necessarily have to play over

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the network also got indicator here on

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the back we've got our av out so you'll

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need an adapter for that guy USB HDMI

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out most like 99.9% of people are probably going to be using this Ethernet

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as well as power in so that pretty much covers it that's our basic over that's

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our basic overview it's pretty simple to use in it stock configuration here's

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their entire quick install guide connect HDMI plug-in power connect to you know

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something and don't forget to enjoy don't forget to enjoy this video and if

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