Patriot Box Office Core Media Player Review

PerformanceTo test the capabilities of the Patriot Box Office we connected the Patriot Box Office up using HDMI to a 42″ Panasonic Plasma 1080p TV and a Pioneer Amp using digital optical Audio to the Patriot Box Office and for a fairly entry level media player its performance was very impressive. We tested the Patriot Box Office using various different types of media, these included MKV, DVD ISO, XVID, DIVX, MOV to name a few. These various types of media also included a variety of differently encoded audio formats. In every case the Patriot Box Office was able to playback the video and audio perfectly without and stutter or appearance of playback issues all the way from 720p, 1080i upto 1080p over our wired network connection from a share on a windows 7 PC.

The pictures above and below were taken during playback of the Transformers: Dark of the Moon trailer playing back on the Patriot Box Office.

USB:

One of the easiest ways to transfer media onto an internal hard drive installed in the Patriot Box Office to simply connect it to your PC using USB and drag and drop the files.

Unfortunately during testing the transfer speeds were disappointing with only 16 MB / second being recorded when reading and writing to the device using windows 7. This possibly due however to the Linux based file system used by the Patriot Box Office and the overheads this presents when being used as a USB device on a windows host.