ASUS O!Play Network Media Player Unboxing Linus Tech Tips
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2010-05-08
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599 words · ~2 min read
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It's been a long day, but I'm doing an unboxing anyway. Today, we are unboxing
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the ASUS O Play, and this is the world's
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first network media player that can play back RMVB. Now, uh being the sort of
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person I am with the color skin that I have, I don't really understand the
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value of that. But my understanding is according to what people tell me, that
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is the best format where you can download Asian soap operas. So, that's
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really important to a lot of people. So, let's take this plastic cover off. Now,
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this is very similar in terms of the overall functionality to something like
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the Popcorn Hour or the Western Digital WD TV. Now, let's have a look at what
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we've got for connectivity. We've got right and left analog audio. We've got
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just a composite video. We have digital audio. Then, we've got an HDMI cable.
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That's the one that most people are going to be using because this is for HD
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content, folks. Then we've got LAN power. And then on the left side of the
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unit, we've got a USB connection. We've actually got an ESATA connection. That's
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pretty awesome because that means that you can just throw your media files onto
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an external hard drive and then you can play them back over ESATA. So there's
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the top of the unit and then the bottom of it. Now, let's see what else we've
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got in here in terms of accessories. So it comes in like a nice black packaging.
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Oh, this is great. It comes with all kinds of stuff. So, here we've got a
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composite video cable and audio cable.
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Then we've got a power. This is an AC power cord. So, that'll plug into the
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back of I'm going to find a Yeah, there we go. So, there's an AC to DC power
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adapter. So, your whole power setup is going to plug into here, plug into the
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wall, and then plug into the back of the unit like this. And then we've got a
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fairly robust looking remote. Actually, I would have expected to see something
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along the lines of the WDTV, but we've actually got a fair amount of
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functionality here. So, there's your menu navigation. Here's where you're going to uh play, pause, stop, all that
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kind of easy stuff. You got volume control, and there's a bunch of other
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stuff on here. Frankly, I haven't done a lot of research on this thing, so we're
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just mostly doing an unboxing here. Here's your quick start guide. It actually only comes with a quick start
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guide. There's no full manual, but it does show you all of the different
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connectors, all the functionality for the remote here. So, oh, a lot of that
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other stuff was you can change the subtitle and the language, which is
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great for the target audience because a lot of those are going to be subtitled.
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And that was pretty much it. It shows you where to plug it into and then it
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goes on to another language. So, that is the ASUS O Play. Here is your users's
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manual disc. So, I was mistaken. It does come with a user's manual. And then
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you've got some batteries for the remote. Thanks for checking out my video blog on the ASUS O Play.