Pivos Aios Network Media Player Unboxing & First Look Linus Tech Tips
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2012-05-07
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today I have a media Network media player box to unbox and this is from a
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new brand that most of you probably aren't familiar with but based on what I
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know about the company and the people involved I am I have very high
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expectations for this particular product so let's have a look at what we've got
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on the front here in terms of features so it's HD ready full 1080p okay
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supports hard drives up to 3 terab we have optional uh optional ability to add
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Wireless N okay we've got gigabit LAN USB 3 that's a cool feature supports
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Blu-ray disc isos very nice 5.1 and 7.1
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are both supported it supports UPnP as well as DNA we have support for
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subtitles including SRT SMI and SSA we can download files from HTTP SMB
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or FTP it says allinone here what I
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think they mean is in terms of file format so you got TS MKV mov M Peg all
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of that on there it has a browser it supports web TV it supports bit torrent
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and supports RSS so this is the AOS from
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pivos let's go around to the back it supports USB wired or wireless keyboard
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and mouse here's a bunch of the services that can be used with this little unit
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right here including Picassa flicker YouTube HTML 5 Google Talk Yahoo all
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right moving right along on the box the box that brings you the best of HD so
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the AOS HD media centers a full 1080p HD
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playback capability combined with the latest surround sent and digital audio technology provide the best inhome
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entertainment experience for you and your family you can share files via
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connected storage devices Network or Google talk with an intuitive file
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management system plays the most popular media file formats that include ISO
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Blu-ray ISO with navigation and many
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many more streams online media okay
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plays from anywhere play your favorite video audio files from USB storage flash
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media external storage network attached storage or network computers connects
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the web and your friends so you can actually sit on your TV or on your couch
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watching your TV and you can use Google talk or whatever else and you can
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download Bluetooth oh yeah cuz BT means
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Bluetooth in this context bit torrent
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files all right let's open up the box
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and have a look at this guy like I said I mean the boxes for these Network media
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players can say whatever they want but at the end of the day it's going to come
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down to the software and like I said from what I know about the team behind
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this one I have very high expectations for this
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box all right so let's pull out the unit
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itself and put it aside for now and then
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I'm going to go ahead and have a look in here at what we've got in terms of
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accessories so first thing we find is a
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very large remote so unlike some of the barebones remote you see with these
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Network media players this guy's got all of the numbers we could want uh you can
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well it's got like record button and all this stuff here going on okay so I'm not
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going to go too much in detail about which buttons are on there but you can
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feel free to sort of here want to get in close and then just do like a pans shot
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of everything that's on the controller okay runs off ablea batteries pardon me
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AAA batteries and it comes with a couple AAA batteries for you to use next we
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have a power brick pretty standard looking power brick nothing out of the
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ordinary here and a power cable for the power brick plugs into the brick and
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Powers the Box finally we have a USB 3
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cable and that oh okay that's handy so the usb3 cable presumably plugs into the
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AOS unit itself and allows you to yeah
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to uh plug into your PC and transfer files to the internal hard drive that
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you install very nice very nice feature so you'll be able to transfer things
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much faster than competing players we've also got a composite cable which I would
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definitely not recommend you use we've got a couple hard drive screws but yeah
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you should definitely use um HDMI with a unit like this it is HD ready after all
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here's your user guide including how to install a hard drive connect things to
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it stream via UPnP all that good stuff so hopefully you can see everything
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that's in there all right and next we have a quick guide get acquainted what's
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in the box how to connect it to various things including your router your NZ all
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that good stuff tips tips and more more
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tips and let's have a look at the unit
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itself so the front of it is a very sort of clean slick professional
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look there we go it's glossy on the front and then it's got kind of a
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brushed aluminum brushed Metal finish on the sides here it's got a little readout
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for time little re readout indicating that it's playing back there's a USB
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connection there's your IR receiver for
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the remote on the top you can see we got a brushed Metal finish there as well
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very professional look for uh AV
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Equipment look at that look how easy it is to install a hard drive oh that's
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cool so all you do is you throw the drive in with these two pegs in the
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right spots and then you put one screw here and one screw
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here and Slide the oops you got to be right side up to do that and Slide the
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whole thing back into the unit look at that very easy
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cool I think I did it wrong yep after all that I did it wrong
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again there we go that's how it goes back in nice and flush this time okay so
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moving along to the other side not a whole lot going on there we got rubberized feet on the bottom once again
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very nice brushed finish overall to the unit there's a USB 2.0 Port didn't see
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that before so that you can just have this at the front of your media center
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you can go ahead and plug a USB stick in there or whatever the case may be and
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you can easily play off a USB stick now in terms of output options You' actually
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got a very wide variety on this unit because of it's slightly larger size
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than some competing solutions that gives you a little bit more room on the back
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for different options so you've actually got component composite coax and optical
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digital audio out Lan here this is gigabit Lan mind you two more USB 2.0
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ports so that was the one on the front and two on the back HDMI out USB 3 for
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transferring files to the internal hard drive that you can opt install finally
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power in and an onoff switch it does have a fan and hopefully I'll have a
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chance to let you guys know if it gets loud but I wouldn't really expect it to
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there's not uh not too much in here that
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you'd need to have like a tornado style fan going on in order to get the full
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functionality out of the machine so actually give me one moment guys so I
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missed one other handy feature there's actually an SDHC reader on the other
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side of the unit opposite the USB 2.0 Port so if you take a video on your
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camera for example and you want to show it to everyone you go ahead you take
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your video you pop it out you throw it in there and now you can play it back so
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with the included HTML 5 browser you can access all the best content on the
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internet with your network share capabilities you can actually access all
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the content that's on here from elsewhere including your other computers
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at home with the file with the network browsing on the unit itself you can
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access files that are Elsewhere on your network and finally you can access files
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that are stored on the internal hard drive so it's a very fully featured
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Network media player and I hope to have some time to check it out in the near
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future thanks for watching my unboxing of the AOS HD Media Center Online is
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