Re: Patriot Box office
Oh yeah, there's heaps of these devices on the market. Hundreds of different brands and models. I personally wouldn't even look at one that can't play media from a networked drive; that way you can put all your videos onto a NAS or home server and play them from multiple media boxes on your network.
The most important thing when looking for a media box, is media format support - lots of it.
The second-most important thing is the user interface. It should be responsive, and not forget your wireless settings or anything like that. And it must be stable and not likely to crash.
My current media boxes are Astone units. They've got excellent format support and do networking (even wireless, with a special adapter), but they fail in user interface speed, their tendency to crash and their occasional desire to forget wireless connection settings.
I try to treat the cause, not the symptom. I avoid the terminal in instructions, unless it's easier or necessary. My instructions will work within the Ubuntu system, instead of breaking or subverting it. Those are the three guarantees to the helpee.
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