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ASUS launches O!Play TV Pro set-top box

by Steven Williamson on 18 January 2012, 14:26

Tags: ASUSTeK (TPE:2357)

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Adding to its existing range of O!Play TV set-top boxes, ASUS has revealed the O!Play TV Pro, which enables playback of HD media and digital TV content and comes with a built-in digital recorder.

It’s the Taiwanese manufacturer’s most fully-featured set-top box to date, equipped with a built in DVB-T digital tuner, an internal 3.5” hard drive, and an electronic programme guide to facilitate recording up to one week in advance. There’s also the handy option of being able to pause and resume broadcasts in real time.


You can connect O!Play to other devices and network for streaming HD content from your PC or mobile and the unit brandishes USB and card ports that support SD/MMC/MS/xD cards and over 50 multimedia formats



At launch, ASUS says that O!Play TV Pro will support Acetrax, Facebook, YouTube Leanback, DailyMotion, Flickr, and Picasa with further features and online content to be added with future firmware updates.

Check out the complete list of specifications:


Specifications

Feature

Description

Video formats

MPEG1/2/4, H.264, VC-1, RM/RMVB, XVID

Video file extensions

.mp4, .mov, .avi, .asf, .wmv, .flv, .mkv, .ts, m2ts, .dat, .mpg, .vob, .mts, .iso, .trp,M1V,M2V,M4V

3D video formats

H.264, MVC, .ts, m2ts

Audio formats

MP3, WAV, AAC, OGG, FLAC, AIFF, Dolby® Digital AC3m, DTS Digital Surround™, Dolby® Digital Plus, PCM/LPCM, Dolby® TrueHD, ID3 Tag

Image formats

JPEG, BMP, PNG, GIF, TIFF

Subtitle formats

.srt, .sub, .smi, idx+sub, .ssa, .ass

File systems

FAT16/32, NTFS, HFS/HFS+, ext3

TV systems

Digital TV: DVB-T

Wireless 

Wi-Fi 802.11b/g/n

Storage

3.5” (up to 3TB)

Recording quality

Hard drive (up to 3TB, TS recording)

I/O 

1 x power button

1 x power (DC-in) 

1 x USB 3.0

2 x USB 2.0

1 x USB 3.0 (PC Link)

1 x Gigabit LAN (1000Mbps)

1 x HDMI (HDMI 1.4)

1 x component (YPbPr) 

1 x analog audio out

1 x analog video out

1 x digital audio out (OPTICAL) 

1 x digital audio out (COAXIAL) 

1 x SD/MMC/MS/xD combo card slot (4-in-1)

RF in: antenna input (loop through cable port)

RF out: antenna output

Dimensions and weight

30cm x 24.3cm x 4cm

1100g (including storage tray)

Power

12V, 3A

Operating temperatures

5°C-35°C


The O!Play TV Pro is expected to be available in the next few weeks, though there’s still no word on pricing.


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That is one hell of a ugly box.
Makes me think of a Cylon.
grimpy
That is one hell of a ugly box.
Don't you think that you are understating things a little bit? lol

Why do these Eastern companies think that people still want DVB-T receivers? It's getting a bit old and various manufacturer's have only fairly recently started making media devices with DVB-T tuners. They are totally out of step with the market IMO. Ok so not every country has yet moved to DVB-T2, however some have and it's backward compatible so should be being used.

That's a double strike against it. In other words totally F'in useless. Even if it wasn't so damn ugly I wouldn't purchase it.