Patriot memory media player forum

I was using an Xbox for my media streaming in the living room and bought the PBO for the bedroom. My has since RRoD'd twice I reflowed the solder already, I will do it again A few comments from me, if anyone is considering buying this.

The Bad: 1. Kyle is right. The fan is obnoxious, as in very high pitch whine. I'm waiting for Patriot to answer me back to see if they are still sending out replacement fans. The GUI is slow. It tries to verify the details of each file as you're scrolling through them.

Over wireless, this is a slow tedious process. It also seems to check the network speed with each file, which gives a great green OSD overlay at the top left. The GUI is utterly horrible. It's just a directory viewer. It will stream DIVX p or lower over wifi with no problem.

High def, won't work. DVD iso's over wifi is almost unresponsive, but once it's playing, it's fine. The Good: 1. I haven't found anything that it WON'T play. I haven't tried BluRay rips yet and haven't updated to the newest Beta firmware, but aside from that, it plays everything in my library. Video quality is great. Better than the xbox upscaling.

Single cable. It's tiny this can be a good and a bad thing. Low power, if you care. I don't. This thing is currently hooked up to my 50" plasma, while a W metal halide bulb burns over my reef tank to the right. I'm so "green". I own a LOT of media players, that date back pretty far now. The was my device of choice for the last year, but the PBO has replaced it. Once you're playing video, it's a neat little device. Bonus: It runs linux.

There are already people some on the Patriot forums, linked to already by Kyle that are adding functionality. It's a tedious process I'm looking into it myself as Patriot has yet to release the open source code they used there is a lawsuit over this already.

It's only a matter of time before the community starts hacking away at the GUI. Joined Feb 21, Messages 1, Just where do you get "uncompressed" DVDs? How does it handle interlaced content? That's where these things always fall over, and if I want to consumer stuff from my DVR it has to handle i and i content. Cheese-ball bob deinterlace and lack of inverse telecine is a no-starter. Fireye n00b. Joined Oct 6, Messages A lot of dvd's are interlaced.

Deinterlacing is a pretty valid issue, though it might be tough to know if the unit is doing the deinterlacing as opposed to the tv. Darknyt Limp Gawd. Joined Jun 10, Messages How would you say it compares if you know enough to comment? I have one and so far, I absolutely love it. I will admit they are compressed to 15gb or less, but I have no issues accessing the 5tbs I have upstairs, the iMac across the room, my laptop, or of course the 1.

Runs playon fine as well. Would be interested if more who know the 2 can comment. Darknyt said:. I have no issues streaming p mkv's etc.

I will admit they are compressed to 15gb or less, but I have no issues accessing the 5tbs I have upstairs Joined Feb 7, Messages 6, No honest excuse to not have it. If they take better advantage of the network transfer speeds, large Blu-Ray rips will be less painful to transfer. Joined Dec 29, Messages 9. Thanks Kyle for a thorough review. May be I can be of assist of answering some questions However only movie play back, no navigation menu yet. Wireless connectivity concerns Any thing over 10GB in file size, I would recommend either use a land line or wireless N for streaming.

Wireless G just doesn't cut it for large file play back. Fan noise concern We've had a small batch with fan noise, caused by dried lubing between the axle. Some customers choose to lubricate it themselves, and for others we did send out replacement fans. It has operations in North America, Asia and Europe. Meta VR headsets won't need Facebook accounts, and the Meta smartwatch leaks. Meanwhile, revealing Oculus Quest Pro tutorial videos have leaked out. Firm is targeting these immersive VR glasses at the meditation and wellness market.

By reading this site you agree to our cookie policy. Click to find out more. You are using an out of date browser. It may not display this or other websites correctly. You should upgrade or use an alternative browser. Thread starter FrgMstr Start date Feb 24, Joined May 18, Messages 52, With a tremendous feature set inside a tiny footprint, we think it is worthy. Az Syndicate Limp Gawd. Joined Feb 15, Messages Wonder how this compares to my Popcorn A Mostly thinking about the interface.

Would like to still do the same, but I am not sure this device has UI with something like DVD box covers for family to pick movies from. NoOther Supreme [H]ardness. Joined May 14, Messages 6, I might think about picking it up and seeing what all I can do with it, especially with adding a hard drive as suggested. Perhaps some simple mods and a few hacks can be done to even improve the experience more. Joined Jun 2, Messages 1, Stoly Supreme [H]ardness.

Joined Jul 26, Messages 6, Its a nice improvement from the previous PBO on almost all fronts. Too bad the internal drive is not supported. But I'm waiting for the Raspberry Pi myself. CompMage Gawd. Joined Sep 7, Messages I wonder if once the device gets reconized as an offical droid device by google if they will support ICS Droid 4. Joined Nov 20, Messages One of the great thing about [H] reviews is that they are almost perfectly balanced.

Most sites either find a flaw and exploit the hell out of it, or gloss over it completely. Reviews like this give me confidence in helping me with my purchase decisions, so this device will most likely end up in a lot of my non-techie friends' homes upon my recommendation. Two thumbs up! NoxTek The Geek Redneck. Joined May 27, Messages 9, I can't wait to get my hands on one of these to play with for myself, I love Android and I've been waiting to see somethng besides a phone or tablet running it.

FndTheRver Gawd. Joined Nov 30, Messages I find with having a PS3 already, I'd not be interested in a product like this. The PS3 already does most everything this does and I really like the blue ray remote that Sony made. If I didn't have the PS3, I'd be very interested in this product though. Joined Dec 31, Messages 0. Blue Falcon said:. Click to expand TwiceOver 2[H]4U.

Joined Jan 14, Messages 2, NOt too impressed here I'm not sure how to take this review. Yet no market, APK apps are "hit or miss"? So cool It offers the ability to use a keyboard. I don't know if I'd go the "genius" route on that alone. No media scraping? Why not.