Testing Impressions

For our tests we used a Samsung Series 6 46-inch (LA46C650) LCD Goggle box playing a broad range of files and formats. From DivX, WMV, H.264, MKV and DVD videos, to WMA, MP3, Real Audio music files, and many formats of motion-picture show files.

Nosotros had no issues playing high quality MKV and DivX movies at 1080p. The picture quality was astonishing with no signs of stuttering. Unlike the Western Digital Idiot box Hd that downscales 1080p content, the picture quality produced by the Box Office was comparable to that of our HTPC. As well, when fast-forwarding or rewinding through movies we never lost sound sync, something many media players that we've used tend to struggle with.

We noticed that virtually of our sound/video files from movies and Television set shows simply had audio when using the LCPM pick, and non RAW, which supports five.1/7.1 aqueduct audio. Being a budget media player this might not be a huge issue for the Box Part, and the fact that you lot can switch between the two is useful.

When playing high quality Blu-ray ISOs through the 10/100 network we had no stuttering issues whatsoever. Although Gigabit networking would have been better, the Box Office didn't suffer using the wired connection. That said, as mentioned earlier the networking abilities of the Box Role are not equally solid as they should be. In fact, afterward our initial testing we are now having trouble getting this function to work properly all the time. There are a number of workarounds posted online only later trying everything, it seems a firmware update is in order to brand this become away completely.

Using the USB wireless adapter (802.11g) wasn't as good for playing dorsum high-definition content for obvious reasons. The limited bandwidth caused occasional lag spikes and stuttery playback with Blu-ray movies, while also making copying data from a networked calculator to the Box Office very slow. For the smoothest functioning possible we advise you forget near wireless functioning and stick to 10/100 wired networking.