Patriot PBO Alpine review!

[lopaka]

I'm only getting the 2x fast forward too. Just hooked up the alpine last night and played 2 mkv videos. I couldn't get more than 2x FF which makes it very difficult to resume a long movie if you're past the halfway mark. The remote is really bad (too tiny) and I on 1 MKV video the box booted me out of the movie back to main menu half way through and since I can only FF at 2x I switched to watching something else. The videos are confirmed working with my other media players.

I saw that the Alpine is supposed to work with the original PBO so I uploaded that remote software to my harmony but it doesn't work. I manually programmed the harmony remote but it only "sorta" works. You have to double or triple press the directional buttons to get any response. All other buttons seem to function normally.

Also with 500MHz processor I'm assuming flash support isn't happening? I was hoping to crossload netflix. I love android in general but am a bit disappointed so far. I was hoping for a media player that could do everything well. I'll wait for a couple firmware updates before I give up though.

[lp_Stealth]

Update: so it still seems they rushed the product to market with little to no testing and it seems I'm not the only one with issues. I still have believe that with the new firmware it can still be a good media player. I do have some good news though now. I just got my mini wireless keyboard. The Rii Touch N7 and I must say it has improved my life in the alpine house. youtube is much easier to type in and navigate. The browser is also much easier to use however without flash I feel like I am in apple land and the pesky onscreen keyboard still showing. It also makes navigating through my vast amounts if files easier with the scroll feature unfortunately the scroll is a little sensitive but I still like it.

The post above this. I have been booted to the home screen but it seems to only happen on the harmony remote and I too programmed all the buttons manually. can you confirm?

Here is a picture:



I also would like to give a shout out to Patriot_Ben for his quick responses and help so far through all of this.

[ledan]

Although my WDTV was working behind my gigabit switch, found that the alpine do not.

Rewind or forward 2x only is on media server mode. 64x is working on network share mode.

[Tonytoronto]

Hi Tonytoronto,

It was never our intention to halt support for the PBO Core, nor have stopped supporting our PBO Core and customers. Our PBO Core is now EOL, but we are still working with providing some bugs fixes and firmware for it. With that being said, the PBO Core was our first Media Player and entry device to this market. Our firmware for PBO Core is built and supported by a third party firmware team from Taiwan. Because of this, things can tend to take a bit longer to program and test for.

With the PBO Alpine, everything is completely designed in the US. Furthermore, we have more options and support for the product being built on the Android Platform.

As i'm sure you aware, the latest "fixes" like u call it, were more year ago. Gone are also the promise of Netflix, "was in testing" i recall one of you saying. Don't want to sound negative but sure hard to be positive about anything from you guys. I must thank you for the hardware, they are all still working with Mede8er software in them. There's more support from 3rd party than Patriot itself, thats pretty sad.

[lopaka]

I'll map network shares to fix the 2x FF for now, not a big deal. I'm used to using the media server from a ReadyNAS NV+ with all my other players, but can do the share for now.

[lopaka]

Update: so it still seems they rushed the product to market with little to no testing and it seems I'm not the only one with issues. I still have believe that with the new firmware it can still be a good media player. I do have some good news though now. I just got my mini wireless keyboard. The Rii Touch N7 and I must say it has improved my life in the alpine house. youtube is much easier to type in and navigate. The browser is also much easier to use however without flash I feel like I am in apple land and the pesky onscreen keyboard still showing. It also makes navigating through my vast amounts if files easier with the scroll feature unfortunately the scroll is a little sensitive but I still like it.

The post above this. I have been booted to the home screen but it seems to only happen on the harmony remote and I too programmed all the buttons manually. can you confirm?

Here is a picture:



I also would like to give a shout out to Patriot_Ben for his quick responses and help so far through all of this.

I got booted once watching an MKV movie from media server. Also got booted back to main menu using the programmed harmony remote 3 times that first evening. I've been using the tiny remote because of that. Hopefully once logitech updates the harmony support for alpine, I can use it without issues