welcome to my unboxing and first look at the PBO Alpine so this is the successor
to the immensely popular Patriot box office so you can see here up in the
corner it is powered by Android 2.2
although it should be you got to bear in mind that you can't necessarily install
you know Angry Birds on it or anything like that but it is still compatible
with apps whether developed by Patriot or whether developed by end users who
want to enable more functionality on the device so you can use apps but not
necessarily the entire you know Marketplace like you can use on your phone because most of the apps require
touchcreen which is obviously not present so this is a full HD Media
Player yes it is compatible with 1080p it better be at this point does YouTube
HDMI it has DTS as well as Dolby Digital let's go ahead and flip it around so
full HD all-in-one media player built over the Android 2.2 o free
your digital media library from the constraints of a PC and Brides digital media to your home and entertainment
system brings your entire media library to the comfort of your living room now one of the things that was so great
about Patriot box office was the huge compatibility with file formats and
we've seen a continuation of that with the PBO Alpine and that's one of the
things that Patriot will continue to work on in order to make it as useful as
possible compatible with a variety of different video formats different
containers images audio and you can see there's a little bit of information
about the hardware here so it has an ARM CPU up to 500 MHz
um two USB 2.0 ports works with a
keyboard and mouse which is kind of neat as well as HDMI 1.3b output so you can't
do Native 3D it's just something to remember guys um optional Wi-Fi with a
USB adapter that is sold separately so let's go ahead and open it up and see
what we can see one of the things you'll notice about it compared to the original
box office is that it is very very small
which is fantastic if you want to use it for something like digital signage for
example uh so you can just mount it somewhere discreet and out of the way
without worrying about anyone walking off with it it's also good if you just
want an overall clean looking media PC
area so you don't have to or media PC TV area so you don't have to have like some
huge clunky box cluttering things up now
the drawback of that is that it isn't unfortunately compatible with um adding
an internal hard drive but for the smaller size I guess
we'll have to live with that so inside the box we have an AC
adapter an HDMI cable a user manual on
disk as well as a remote so the remote
has all of your basic functionality navigation enter play stop forward back
other more different forward back menu info subtitles and audio power volume
and that pretty much does it now in terms of interface Patriots actually
taking a fairly unique approach with this where they have kind of a stock um
more basic firmware that is going to be designed for if your grandma wants to
watch like Korean soaps and you don't
want to like be dealing with it every other day going over there and helping
her figure it out you just give her the stock firmware here you go Grandma enjoy
you know you set up the network share once for her because she probably is
going to have trouble with that and it can actually ah yes this diagram is
useful it can pull media from a variety of different sources whether it's wired
or or over Wireless whether it's you know mobile or a UPnP or DNA compatible
device or even a PC sorry where was I going with that
right so they have the easy firmware for Grandma and then if you want Patriots
also developing in parallel a more Enthusiast friendly stream where they're
going to be reaching out to the community and finding out what they want
out of this because again that was one of the things that was great about the box office was that they Continue to
update the functionality over time so if you're an Enthusiast that's the one
you're going to want to go for now on the outside see not a whole lot because
this is a very very small device so you got a few little logos there you got
your SD card as well as your USB remember you can play media directly off
of something plugged into the PBO Alpine you don't necessarily have to play over
the network also got indicator here on
the back we've got our av out so you'll
need an adapter for that guy USB HDMI
out most like 99.9% of people are probably going to be using this Ethernet
as well as power in so that pretty much covers it that's our basic over that's
our basic overview it's pretty simple to use in it stock configuration here's
their entire quick install guide connect HDMI plug-in power connect to you know
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