ASUS O!Play Air Network 1080p Wireless HD Media Player Unboxing & First Look Linus Tech Tips
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2010-05-08
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So today we're going to be having a look at the ASUS oplay air so this air
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version the biggest most obvious upgrade they've made to it is where the air name
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comes from and that is that they have added Wireless support to the older ASUS
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o play so let's have a quick look at the box here you can see right there they've
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called out on the front Wireless that is the big feature okay but let's have a
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look at the features that they list on the side so if I can get the cameraman to have a look you can see where we've
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got full support for most of your important HD movie format you have
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support for photos now as well as a bunch of different audio and subtitle
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formats okay they have a look at the unit itself multiple format support blah
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blah blah isata is present it now has a card reader which is another cool
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feature and then here we've got easy Wireless file sharing complete card
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reader support to share photos on TV large screen with your family and
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friends as well as o photo picture manager to organize your pictures by
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date folder okay so let's open up the box itself here and oh okay there goes
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ah a liner piece so you got a Slick Black Box and let's just take out the
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opl air itself and have a look at the accessories first so you can see we've
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got a pretty good accessory package let's see what we've got first of all
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you will find a media remote that looks kind of
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like a shortened um if you've seen the OEM Microsoft Remote it looks kind of
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like a shortened version of that with no number pad so that is your oplay remote
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and they've been kind enough to include a couple of AAA batteries for you
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awesome okay then we have composite cable
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all right if you're using an HD player though try to avoid using this because
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yeah you're not going to get the best for you're not going to bet get the best
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possible quality out of it then you've got a power cord a power brick as well as an O
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playay HD Media Player user manual as well as the o link network connection
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utility okay then inside we have an oplay HD Media Player quick start guide
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so this is going to give you a general overview of what all of the different
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connections are as well as the remote control buttons and wow then they
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basically show you how to plug it into your TV so the setup better be pretty
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easy otherwise people are going to have trouble with that so let's take out the
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opl air itself and have a quick look at the
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Box okay so it's not particularly large
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by these media player standards it's a little bit bigger than a wdtv or wdtv
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live but it's obviously much smaller than a popcorn hour so let's just take
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this uh plastic cover off you can see it's got a very nice glossy finish to
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the go away ah to the ASUS logo on the
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top and then the rest is a matte like a matte black that'll fit in very nicely
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with other media devices and then the front is a glossy black finish as well
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as the side and the other side you can see little air ventilation holes up at
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the top here because I mean you you've got a 1080p video Processing Unit inside
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so you are going to need a little bit of ventilation for it so this side is where
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you'll find the card reader so you can see we've got support for compact flash
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SD as well as memory stick and memory stick Duo and then on the other side we
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have support for USB as well as EA and
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that's where you'll find a little Hardware reset switch should you need to
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reset the device if it locks up and then on the back that's where we'll find most
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of the gut so you can see all we've got here is composite so if you're using
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analog you're using composite period and then we have HDMI as well as optical
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audio out so that is your digital connection so they haven't given a whole
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lot of connection options but this should service most of the people out
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there then you've got a landport if you don't want to use the wireless as well
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as a power plug the bottom of the unit has four little rubber feet and thank
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you for checking out my unboxing and product over overview overview of the
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ASUS oplay air