Patriot Box Part Features

The Patriot Box Part features full HD video playback and navigation up to 1080p using the HDMI 1.three interface. Dolby audio, AC3 and DTS (not pass-through) is supported along with MPEG-I Layer 1/ii/three,MPEG-II Layer i/2, Real Sound, AAC, WMA, LPCM for movies and WMA, MP3, Existent Audio (RA), WAV, OGG, AAC, FLAC for music.

Supported file formats for music include WMA, MP3, Existent Audio (RA). Image formats include JPEG, BMP and PNG while supported video formats include [MPEG-ane] MPG/MPEG/DAT, [MPEG-2] MPG/MPEG/VOB/ISO/TS/TP/M2TS, [MPEG-iv] MP4/AVI/MOV, WMV9, FLA, [H.264/AVC] MKV/TS/AVI/MOV/M2TS, [DivX iii/4/5/6, xVid] AVI/MKV, [Existent Video 8/ix/10] RM/RMVB.

Video and sound controls are pretty standard. When listening to music the Box Office provides users with fast forward, rewind, pause, and echo options. For videos a quick preview feature exists along with basic forward, rewind, pause, zoom, subtitles and pan options during playback.

For viewing images users tin can create slideshows and listen to background music. As you'd look from an image viewer at that place are zoom and panning functions built-in every bit well.

Included in the package is a remote control to navigate the Box Part media player. The remote is rather compact carrying 47 buttons, though we feel the layout could be a little complex for some.

Inside the box you also become a set of blended cables, external power adapter, USB cable and a CD with the instructions manual. While the vast majority of media players would require consumers to foot the bill for a dissever HDMI cablevision, Patriot has gone a step further by including it in the package.

The Patriot Box Role supports network streaming, making information technology easier to view content equally it removes the need to outset load it onto an external storage device. This is supported using the 10/100 Ethernet port or through the optional USB wireless adapter.

Out of the box the Patriot Box Office doesn't support wireless networking, but the option is available through a split up add-on. The Patriot PCB0WAU2-M (802.11b/g) USB wireless adapter can be plugged into i of the bachelor USB ports, configured in the setup bill of fare and you are done.

This USB wireless adapter was designed to piece of work with the Box Office, but it can besides be used with any Windows based computer. The adapter will set you lot back an extra $25, which seems quite reasonable to us. The Patriot PCB0WAU2-Thousand (802.11b/g) dongle that was supplied with our review sample transmits using the WMM (Wi-Fi Multimedia) specification. The 23 dBm high-power output and built-in antenna are designed to avoid dropouts and are capable of transmitting 2x the gain and 2x the distance of many similar USB Wi-Fi adapters on the marketplace. It also supports 256-chip WPA/WEP encryption to go on your home network safe.

Even so, the primary trouble using a wireless connectedness is the limited bandwidth (27Mbps down/27Mbps up) information technology can provide, so the Patriot PCB0WAU2-G is right on the edge of what can handle loftier quality video such as Blu-ray. Patriot recently addressed this limitation with the newer PCBOWAV2-N wireless adapter, also compatible with the Box Office that tin practise Wi-FI N, which should be far more suitable for streaming high definition content wirelessly.

Like near media players the Box Part tin work with any USB storage or portable storage that can be recognized equally a mass storage device too. In addition, the device features an internal 2.5" SATA drive slot which can support a solid land drive or a standard disk drive, neither of which is included in the $100 price obviously.

Another overnice characteristic is the inclusion of a mini-USB connector. This allows easy data transfers from a PC or Network Attached Storage device. Essentially, this also turns the Box Office into a portable USB storage device once a 2.v" drive has been installed. We should point out that the Box Office requires external power to function, making information technology a trivial less flexible for this purpose, but still a cool feature to have.

Believe information technology or non, to round things upward the Box Office tin can besides be used as a BitTorrent client, assuasive users to download files using this file sharing protocol without the need of a PC. Finally, UPnP (Universal Plug and Play) support is besides available for streaming content on compatible devices such as the Sony PlayStation 3 and Microsoft Xbox 360.