It's been a long day, but I'm doing an unboxing anyway. Today, we are unboxing
the ASUS O Play, and this is the world's
first network media player that can play back RMVB. Now, uh being the sort of
person I am with the color skin that I have, I don't really understand the
value of that. But my understanding is according to what people tell me, that
is the best format where you can download Asian soap operas. So, that's
really important to a lot of people. So, let's take this plastic cover off. Now,
this is very similar in terms of the overall functionality to something like
the Popcorn Hour or the Western Digital WD TV. Now, let's have a look at what
we've got for connectivity. We've got right and left analog audio. We've got
just a composite video. We have digital audio. Then, we've got an HDMI cable.
That's the one that most people are going to be using because this is for HD
content, folks. Then we've got LAN power. And then on the left side of the
unit, we've got a USB connection. We've actually got an ESATA connection. That's
pretty awesome because that means that you can just throw your media files onto
an external hard drive and then you can play them back over ESATA. So there's
the top of the unit and then the bottom of it. Now, let's see what else we've
got in here in terms of accessories. So it comes in like a nice black packaging.
Oh, this is great. It comes with all kinds of stuff. So, here we've got a
composite video cable and audio cable.
Then we've got a power. This is an AC power cord. So, that'll plug into the
back of I'm going to find a Yeah, there we go. So, there's an AC to DC power
adapter. So, your whole power setup is going to plug into here, plug into the
wall, and then plug into the back of the unit like this. And then we've got a
fairly robust looking remote. Actually, I would have expected to see something
along the lines of the WDTV, but we've actually got a fair amount of
functionality here. So, there's your menu navigation. Here's where you're going to uh play, pause, stop, all that
kind of easy stuff. You got volume control, and there's a bunch of other
stuff on here. Frankly, I haven't done a lot of research on this thing, so we're
just mostly doing an unboxing here. Here's your quick start guide. It actually only comes with a quick start
guide. There's no full manual, but it does show you all of the different
connectors, all the functionality for the remote here. So, oh, a lot of that
other stuff was you can change the subtitle and the language, which is
great for the target audience because a lot of those are going to be subtitled.
And that was pretty much it. It shows you where to plug it into and then it
goes on to another language. So, that is the ASUS O Play. Here is your users's
manual disc. So, I was mistaken. It does come with a user's manual. And then
you've got some batteries for the remote. Thanks for checking out my video blog on the ASUS O Play.