 Today I have a network media player box to unbox and this is from a new brand that most of you probably aren't familiar with but based on what I know about the company and the people involved I have very high expectations for this particular product. So let's have a look at what we've got on the front here in terms of features. So it's HD ready, full 1080p, supports hard drives up to 3TB, we have optional ability to add wireless N, we've got gigabit LAN, USB 3, that's a cool feature, supports Blu-ray disk ISOs, very nice, 5.1 and 7.1 are both supported, supports UPnP as well as DLNA, we have support for subtitles including SRT, SMI and SSA, we can download files from HTTP, TSMB or FTP, it says all in one here and what I think they mean is in terms of file format so you've got TS, MKV, MOV, MPEG, all of that on there, it has a browser, it supports WebTV, it supports BitTorrent and supports RSS. So this is the AOS from Pivos, let's go around to the back, it supports USB wired or wireless keyboard and mouse, here's a bunch of the services that it can be used with this little unit right here including Picasa, Flickr, YouTube, HTML5, Google Talk, Yahoo, alright moving right along, the box, the box that brings you the best of HD, so the AOS HD Media Centre's full 1080p HD playback capability combined with the latest surround sound and digital audio technology provide the best in-home entertainment experience for you and your family, you can share files via connected storage devices, network or Google Talk with an intuitive file management system, plays the most popular media file formats that include ISO, Blu-ray ISO with navigation and many, many more, streams online media, ok, plays from anywhere, play your favourite video, audio, photo files from USB storage, flash media, external storage, network attached storage or network computers, connects the web and your friends so you can actually sit on your TV or on your couch watching your TV and you can use Google Talk or whatever else and you can download Bluetooth, yeah because BT means Bluetooth in this context, BitTorrent files, alright let's open up the box and have a look at this guy, like I said, I mean the boxes for these network media players can say whatever they want but at the end of the day it's going to come down to the software and like I said from what I know about the team behind this one I have very high expectations for this box, alright so let's pull out the unit itself and put it aside for now and then I'm going to go ahead and have a look in here at what we've got in terms of accessories, so first thing we find is a very large remote, so unlike some of the bare bones remote you see with these network media players this guy's got all of the numbers we could want, it's got like a record button and all this stuff here going on, ok, so I'm not going to go too much in detail about which buttons are on there but you can feel free to sort of hear, if you want to get in close and then just do like a pan shot of everything that's on the controller, ok, it runs off AA batteries, pardon me AAA batteries and it comes with a couple AAA batteries for you to use, next we have a power brick, pretty standard looking power brick, nothing out of the ordinary here, and a power cable for the power brick, plugs into the brick and powers the box, finally we have a USB 3 cable and that, oh ok that's handy, so the USB 3 cable presumably plugs into the AOS unit itself and allows you to yeah, to plug into your PC and transfer files to the internal hard drive that you install, very nice, very nice feature, so you'll be able to transfer things much faster than competing players, we've also got a composite cable which I would definitely not recommend you use, we've got a couple of hard drive screws, but yeah you should definitely use HDMI with a unit like this, it is HD ready after all, here's your user guide including how to install a hard drive, connect things to it, stream via UPnP, all that good stuff, so hopefully you can see everything that's in there, alright and next we have a quick start guide, get acquainted, what's in the box, how to connect it to various things including your router, your NAS, all that good stuff, tips, tips and more tips, and let's have a look at the unit itself, so the front of it is a very sort of clean, slick, professional look, there we go, it's glossy on the front and then it's got kind of a brushed aluminum, brushed metal finish on the sides here, it's got a little read out for time, little read out indicating that it's playing back, there's a USB connection, there's your IR receiver for the remote, on the top you can see we've got a brushed metal finish there as well, very professional look for AV equipment, look at that, look how easy it is to install a hard drive, oh that's cool, so all you do is you throw the drive in with these two pegs in the right spots and then you put one screw here and one screw here and slide the, oops you've got to be right side up to do that, and slide the whole thing back into the unit, look at that, very easy, cool, I think I did it wrong, yep, after all that I did it wrong again, there we go, that's how it goes back in, nice and flush this time, okay, so moving along to the other side, not a whole lot going on there, we've got rubberized feet on the bottom, once again, very nice brushed finish overall to the unit, there's a USB 2.0 port, didn't see that before, so that you can just have this at the front of your media center, you can go ahead and plug a USB stick in there or whatever the case may be and you can easily play off a USB stick, now in terms of output options you've actually got a very wide variety on this unit, because of it's slightly larger size than some competing solutions that gives you a little bit more room on the back for different options, so you've actually got component, composite, coax and optical digital audio out, LAN here, this is gigabit LAN mind you, two more USB 2.0 ports, so that was the one on the front and two on the back, HDMI out, USB 3 for transferring files to the internal hard drive that you can optionally install, finally power in and an on off switch, it does have a fan and hopefully I'll have a chance to let you guys know if it gets loud, but I wouldn't really expect it to, there's not too much in here that you'd need to have like a tornado style fan going on in order to get the full functionality out of the machine, so actually give me one moment guys. So I missed one other handy feature, there's actually an SDHC reader on the other side of the unit opposite the USB 2.0 port, so if you take a video on your camera for example and you want to show it to everyone, you go ahead, you take your video, you pop it out, you throw it in there and now you can play it back, so with the included HTML5 browser you can access all the best content on the internet, with your network share capabilities you can actually access all the content that's on here from elsewhere including your other computers at home with the network browsing on the unit itself, you can access files that are elsewhere on your network and finally you can access files that are stored on the internal hard drive, so it's a very fully featured network media player and I hope to have some time to check it out in the near future. 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