Low Price Patriot PCMPBO25 Box Office 1080p High Definition Media Player – On Sale
- Hard disk interface: Serial ATA
- Hard disk size: 6.35 cm (2.5 “)
- Connectivity technology: Wired
- USB 2.0 ports quantity: 3
- Ethernet LAN (RJ-45) ports quantity: 1
Patriot Memory Box Office Media Player; Serial ATA; 2.5 “; Wired; MPG/MPEG/VOB/ISO /IFO/TS/TP/M2TS/DAT/MP4/AVI/MOV/MKV/WMV/FLV/RM/RMVB; SRT; MicroDVD SUB; SSA; SUB/IDX; 538.2 gThe Patriot Box Office is a media player that frees your digital media library from the constraints of a PC and bridges digital media to your home entertainment system to bring your entire media library to the comfort of your living room. With support for the most popular media formats (H.264; ISO; VOB; DivX; xVid; MKV; MO
List Price: £58.44
Love it!,
I chose this media player based on price, features, patriot forum support, flexibility and hackability. I have updated the bootcode and firmware, but to be honest it didn’t need it. Also purchased the Patriot N wireless adapter as I don’t use the ethernet port.
I don’t use streaming much, but on the limited tests I have performed the Wireless N works well on anything upto about 1.5GB, but a 4.5GB DVD ISO image does stutter via wireless. I have installed a 250GB 2.5″ sata drive internally and use a 500GB external USB drive too. Using the device to store my movies, whether I copy my DVDs to ISO or out to MP4, etc works really well. Both the external USB drive or internal SATA work perfectly too.
The device is easy to use, setup and I would recommend it to anyone not interested in streaming ISO DVD images via wireless. Love it!
UPDATE: Reflashed the PBO to P61 Mega, a semi official firmware linked from the PBO Wiki and the device now streams 4.5GB ISO images perfectly.
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|Patriot Box Office Media Player,
On the whole a very good media player. It has accepted any type of file I have thrown at it via USB or LAN. The resolution is superb and play back is flawless (so far). The only major complaint I have is that the menu structure is crap! I require short cuts to media stored on my servers and not have to go through the entire file structure to find what I want.
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|Easy to use,
This is a really well designed and useful media player. I have never liked to watch movies on a laptop and now I can just transfer all my films to an external usb powered hd and plug it into the Patriot Box and press the play button. Produce no noise and it looks discrete below the TV. Also works fine with dvd iso-files and you get to see the menus and all. Have used it for 3 months now. Solid stuff.
Thumbs up!
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