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welcome to my unboxing and first look at the PBO Alpine so this is the successor to the immensely popular Patriot box office so you can see here up in the corner it is powered by Android 2.2 although it should be you got a bear in mind that you can't necessarily install you know Angry Birds on it or anything like that but it is still compatible with apps whether developed by Patriot or whether developed by end users who want to enable more functionality on the device so you can use apps but not necessarily the entire you know marketplace like you can use on your phone because most of the apps require are touchscreen which is obviously not present so this is a full HD media player yes it is compatible with 1080p it better be at this point does YouTube HD mind has DTS as well as Dolby Digital let's go ahead and flip it around so him full HD all-in-one media player built over the Android 2.2 OS freezer digital media library from the constraints of a PC and bridges digital media to your home and entertainment system brings your entire media library to the comfort of your living room now one of the things that was so great about Patriot box office was the huge compatibility with file formats and we've seen a continuation of that with the PBO Alpine and that's one of the things that Patriot will continue to work on in order to make it as useful as possible compatible with a variety of different video formats different containers images audio and you can see there's a little bit of information about the hardware here so it has an arm CPU up to 500 megahertz 2 USB 2.0 ports works with a keyboard and mouse which is kind of neat as well as hdmi 1.3 b output so you can't do native 3d it's just something to remember guys optional Wi-Fi with a USB adapter that is sold separately so let's go ahead and open it up and see what we can see one of the things you'll notice about it compared to the original box office that is very very small which is fantastic if you want to use it for something like digital signage for example so you can just mount it somewhere discreet and out of the way without worrying about anyone walking off with it it's also good if you just want an overall clean looking media PC area so you don't have to our media piece and TV area so you don't have to have like some huge clunky box cluttering things up now the drawback of that is that it isn't unfortunately compatible with adding an internal hard drive but for the smaller size I guess we'll have to live with that so inside the box we have an AC adapter an HDMI cable a user manual on disk as well as a remote so the remote has all of your basic functionality navigation enter play stop forward back of a more different forward back menu info subtitles and audio power volume and that pretty much does it now in terms of interface Patriots actually taking a fairly unique approach with this where they have kind of a stock more basic firmware that is going to be designed for if your grandma wants to watch like Korean soaps and you don't want to like be dealing with it every other day going over there and helping her figure it out you just give her the stock firmware here you go grandma enjoy you know you set up the network share once for her because she probably is gonna have trouble with that and it can actually yes this diagram is useful it can pull media from a variety of different sources whether it's wired or over wireless whether it's you know mobile or a UPnP or DLNA compatible device or even a PC right so they have the easy firmware for Grandma and then if you want Patriots also developing in parallel a more enthusiast friendly streamer they're going to be reaching out to the community and finding out what they want out of this because again that was one of the things that was great about the box office was that they continued to update the functionality over time so if you're an enthusiast that's the one you're gonna want to go for now on the outside we see not a whole lot because this is a very very small device so you've got a few little logos there you've got your SD card as well as your USB remember you can play media directly off of something plugged into the PBO Alpine you don't necessarily have to play over the network also got indicator here on the back we've got our ad out so you'll need an adapter for that guy USB HDMI out most like 99.9% of people are probably going to be using this Ethernet as well as power in so that's pretty much covers it that's our basic over that's our basic overview it's pretty simple to use and its stock configuration here's their entire quick install guide connect HDMI plug in power connect to you know something and don't forget to enjoy don't forget to enjoy this video and if you enjoyed it don't forget to subscribe thank you for checking out my unboxing your first look at the PBO Alpine and oh I already said thank you for watching and don't forget to subscribe so I'll say one more time actually I won't