so today I'll be unboxing a product that while I didn't buy it I actually bought
one about six months ago for my parents and the reason I bought it is because
it's kind of a unique product so this is the Logitech cordless media board Pro
for PlayStation 3 although you are not actually limited to using it with the
PlayStation 3 they're actually using it for their Media Center PC and I'll
explain how they're doing that in a minute but why don't we go through what Logitech says about it on the box first
of all they say is a keyboard second of all they say it is with Bluetooth
wireless technology so it does use a
Bluetooth interface there are no cords you just put in a battery and off you go
cordless media keys and it has a touchpad and scroll bar so you can see
right here that it actually has a mouse or like a touchpad built into the
keyboard it's slim okay and then we go
around to the back and we find that it works up to 30 ft from your PlayStation
3 it has an integrated touchpad offers an easy way to enter text and type mess
messages on the Playstation 3 or a computer it is perfect for the
PlayStation Network it is lightweight perfect for living room use and it has
quick media Keys give instant access to Media control panel movie menus and more
so I will be opening the seals with my
ruler knife which actually belongs to the cameraman not to me at all but I was
like oh I have no knife but the difference is that I thought of it
before we started filming today so the cameraman gave me something to use
okay so inside we will find um a blank
white area surrounded by black and green
when we remove that we will find a keyboard okay so it's held in by a
couple pieces of foam right here so you can see it's actually quite well secured
even without the top uh half of the Box on it we can just go ahead and pull this
out and let's see what we've got in terms of manuals and accessories like no
accessories just a manual so let's open this up
got a part number sticker on it okay that's helpful okay important
information let's start with this it's in Portuguese and French and English yes
English so U duration of implied warranties National statutory rights the
Logitech address battery warning follow the batteries instructions as well as
these important safety chips okay so mostly safety so safety is important
thank you Logitech next we have the installation manual for the media board
Pro and I have to confess I did end up needing this when I installed this for
my parents um so you put in the
batteries that's pretty straightforward you turn the keyboard on by sliding the
onoff switch that is not the step that I got stuck on I was not stuck on that
step um then you adjust the keyboard feet for Comfort if required also not
where I got stuck next you use the media keys and
then you oh whatever come on where's the step that I got stuck on oh yeah right
right right right right here okay so how you actually register the keyboard with
your with your Bluetooth adapter when pairing so you actually need to enter um
wow they don't actually say maybe they've changed the procedure but I had
to enter a password in order to get it to syn with the Bluetooth dongle that
was connected to the computer so that's the part that I found challenging
because this keyboard was actually the first time I had ever used Bluetooth for
anything I'm not a phone guy and I tend to stick
with wired for all of my peripherals so that's that's what I was using Okay so
the media board Pro it's a very comfortable keyboard actually you can
easily sit and I'm going to get the cameraman to move for a little bit but
you can easily sit on the couch and hold it in your lap it's very very
comfortable in this kind of a position because it's so lightweight and so thin
so you just kind of hold it where you're sitting wherever you happen to be
sitting and then here let's have a look here so in terms of media Keys you got a
menu key back play forward and Blu-ray
DVD menu uh these all work on PC but I'm not sure what this one does in that
context logitech's put a very glossy finish on this particular keyboard it
does make it a bit of a fingerprint magnet but it's not the worst I've seen
by a long shot keyboard is very as I said comfortable and the layout is very
very standard uh so you have a fullsize backspace shift enter and other shift
they haven't done anything particularly stupid but one thing that you might
notice is that there's no Windows key so
these are actually right and left click so you can use you have a couple of
different options you can either use the keyboard like this back out cameraman so
with your right finger on the touchpad and these are your right and left click
over here or you can use it like you would use a laptop with your left finger
on the touchpad or vice versa and you can use the right and left click over
here power button switch rather is over here so just slide that into the
position that you require it to be in in and then on the bottom you will find the
structural bracing and this also allows it to be a little bit lighter because
they haven't just filled the whole thing in with plastic and then the battery
slots here are the little adjustable feet that the I assure you this is not
the part that I got stuck on when I was installing this and then so the thing
that is missing if you're using this with a computer is a Bluetooth dongle
because it's designed for the Playstation 3 which has built-in Bluetooth it does not include one so
that means that you'll need to buy I mean you can get for as cheap as like 5 10 bucks so you just grab any Bluetooth
dongle a generic one and then you can actually pair it to the keyboard it
takes probably about 5 minutes so thank you for checking out my unboxing of the
cordless media board Pro