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today I have a media 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 am 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 ok supports hard drives up to 3 terabytes we have optional optional the ability to add wireless-n okay we've got Gigabit LAN USB 3 that's a cool feature supports blu-ray disc ISOs very nice 5.1 and 7.1 are both supported supports UPnP as well as DLNA we have support for sub titles including srt SMI and SS a we can download files from HTTP SMB or FTP it says all in one here and what I think they mean is in terms of a file format so they got TS and kV Emily and PEG all of that on there it has a browser it supports web TV it supports BitTorrent and supports RSS so this is the AOS from pibbles 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 centers a 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 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 favorite video audio photo files from USB storage flash media external storage network attached storage or networked computers connects the web and your friends so you can actually sit on your TV on your couch watching your TV and you can use Google Talk or whatever else and you can download the Bluetooth up yeah because BT means Bluetooth this context BitTorrent files 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 gonna 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 all right so let's pull out the unit itself and put it aside for now and then I'm gonna 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 thought all of the numbers we could want oh you can well it's not like record button oh this stuff here going on okay so I'm not gonna go too much in detail about which buttons are on there but you can feel free to start of here I'm gonna get in close and then just do like a pan shot at everything that's on the controller okay runs off double-a batteries pardon me triple-a batteries and it comes with a couple of triple-a 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 okay 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've installed 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 by the UPnP all that good stuff so that 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 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 readout for time a little readout indicating that is 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 hard drive wow that's cool so all you do is you throw the drive in with these two pegs and the right spots and then you put one screw here and one screw here and slide the oops you gotta be right side up to do that and slide the whole thing back into the unit yeah very easy cool I think I did it wrong yeah 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 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 its a 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 three 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 I 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 not too much in here that you need to have like a tornado style fan going on in order to get the full functionality out of the machine so we 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 file 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 put 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 thanks for watching my unboxing of the AOC HD media center online is tech tips and don't forget to subscribe for more unboxings reviews and other computer videos