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Astone Media Gear AP-300 Full HD 1080p + 1TB SATA HDD Inside COTD $189.00 + shipping

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Astone Media Gear AP-300 Full HD 1080p + 1TB SATA HDD Inside COTD $189.00 + shipping
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Lcheaparse on 03/12/2009 - 06:19 catchoftheday.com.au (1902 clicks)

1TB Full HD Home Media Centre

DTS Digital, HDMI, H.264 MP4 Playback, HD 1080p

Watch, store and playback all of your USB and Network media files with this High Definition Home Media Centre all for under $190!

Includes full size remote control!

Today's SOS is a feature packed monster of a media player! Sporting a 1TB HDD, Full HD 1080P playback and HDMI out, Dolby Digital DTS, Network & USB Device playback and much more! Now you can watch all of your favourite media, all in one compact, versatile device all for under $190! Limited quantity, don't miss out!

Key Features:

  • 1080p full HD media decoding across a huge range of formats
  • Play back media from attached USB devices, or directly from your PC via your local network.
  • Full support for Dolby DTS digital sound decoding
  • Whopping 1TB of hard drive space to store all of your media files
  • More connections, inputs and outputs that you can shake a stick at.

Truly the entertainment hub of your home:

The Astone Media Gear AP-300 is a powerful home media center which truly decodes, playback and outputs High Definition 1080p videos through HDMI interface. AP-300 is able to play the HD MPEG2, HD VC-1, HD AVC/H.264 movies from internal hard drive or external USB devices to HDTV screen. The advanced Network function allows you to browse the video file from your PC or NAS in your study room and play it on TV in the living room.

Features:

  • Decode and output High Definition 1080p video and Photo.
  • Support Mainstream formats of HD video including MPEG-2, VC-1, H.264/AVC and RMVB HD.
  • Support DTS HD Downmix Via HDMI
  • Within the next generation interface - HDMI 1.3 output.
  • Ethernet port supports Network player function.
  • NAS function share the hard drive and USB device to the network
  • High performance video playback. Experience fluent playback control like Zoom out/in, Pan the picture, Fast Forward, Fast Reverse, Slow-motion.
  • Fully supports the subtitle format. Dynamically change the subtitle display by remote control.
  • Photo playback via HD. Supports Up to 40 mega-pixel photo files, 16X Zoom in, 3-direction rotation.
  • Slide show mode with 8 kinds of transition effect. Background music playback is supported.
  • Rich types of music file. The playback function includes Fast Forward, Fast Reverse, Repeat, Shuffle and Shuffle Repeat.
  • Within USB 2.0 port, plug-and-play the USB Flash Drive, USB Mobile Hard Disk Drive , USB Card Reader, USB DVD-ROM*, USB Wi-Fi Dongle (Not Included)
  • Easy to use and intuitive control. Change to setup menu at any time even in media playing to provide the fluent control.
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  • timhn on 03/12/2009 - 08:34

    $195.95 inc shipping. It's $6.95 Aus-wide shipping.
    Better than 1saleaday from yesterday.

  • skinny on 03/12/2009 - 12:14
    +1

    I wish they put the next model that has a HD tuner on sale soon!

  • noise36 on 03/12/2009 - 13:32

    does it do 720/1080p MKV? its not worth anything unless it does.

    • chhola on 03/12/2009 - 21:46

      Yes, it does.

  • superkieu on 03/12/2009 - 13:45
    +1

    My friend bought 2.
    I bought 1.
    could not resist the tempation.

    Skinny,
    as for the ap-360T model with build-in HD Tuner, you need to be aware that the unit will convert the signal to analog before recording it. so no digital full HD recording.
    This is stupid and was the reason why I didn't buy the ap-360t model.

    Noise36
    yes to both 720p/1080p MKV.
    IMHO, This aussie player is better than the WD TV.
    I returned my WD TV to buy this instead.

    • Swiper on 03/12/2009 - 13:58
      +5

      Skinny,

      I bought the 360T and as far as I aware, my HD channel recordings are in HD. It has a built in HD tuner that it records from and the file info suggests that the resolution is 1080i (same as it is transmitted in). The quality of recodings are amazing - just ask my kids, they love the animated movies that have been on lately.

      On the negative side, the unit is full of bugs and problems with ongoing firmware updates trying to fix some of these issues. Buyer beware… if I had my time again, I would wait for some more postive feedback in the user forums. Tomm many issues at the moment that are not worth the hassle. Astone need to do some serious corrective action very quickly!

      Will be a great unit once all is running smoothly though.

      Hope this assists some of you buyers out there:

      http://www.astone.com.au/forum/viewforum.php?f=24

  • vid_ghost on 03/12/2009 - 14:11

    nice deal

  • greenie4242 on 03/12/2009 - 16:09
    +5

    I can confirm the Astone AP-300 plays 720/1080p MKV just fine. It also plays most FLV and WMV files also, which is great for downloading long YouTube videos and watching them on the big TV. Networking is very smooth and I play things from a network server daily, and can also copy things to and from the media box via the network from my PC using the NAS feature. There's also a very useful feature that lets you copy files from a USB stick or network server directly to the internal hard drive, so I never have to go near my computer to add files.

    Subtitle support is great and with new firmware the colour, size and location of text-based (SRT) subtitles can be adjusted while playing.

    Unfortunately, I've had a few severe issues with two Sony Bravia LCD TVs. Usually the picture appears pink when hooked up via HDMI and it takes four or five goes of unplugging the HDMI cable and plugging it back in to fix it. Last night I simply could not get HDMI to work and after ten minutes of screwing around had to resort to just using the A/V jacks. Astone reckons they've fixed the Sony Bravia pink problem with their latest firmware, but after updating it to the latest firmware HDMI audio output is completely broken on the Sony TV. If you always play your files through an amplifier connected via optical or coax cables this isn't an issue, but for the moment I'd completely avoid the box if you own a Sony LCD. I hope a firmware fix will solve these issues soon. No issues whatsoever with my LG LCD via HDMI.

    The box is currently no good for using as a shop display playing multiple videos (eg my video store where they have multiple movie trailers playing from a single folder) because a menu is displayed at the top of each video for about 5 seconds whenever it begins a new file. It's quite annoying when I'm watching a TV series and the menu suddenly appears when playing the next file. There also appears to be no way to find out Time Remaining while playing a file, which is annoying when you want to go to bed soon and don't know if there's 10 minutes or 40 minutes left in the movie you're watching.

    I would also HOPE that these heavy units are well packed during transport, because on three occasions I've purchased things from CoTD and 1SaleaDay and they've been damaged in transit because there was simply no padding provided whatsoever, just the heavy item thrown into a Jiffy mailer.

    Basically it's not perfect, but a fantastic deal for the price. They seem to release new firmware every two or three weeks so it's a bit of a work-in-progress, so hopefully things will improve rapidly.

    • blitz on 07/12/2009 - 17:38

      good work, greenie.

  • spal on 04/12/2009 - 07:49

    Thanks for your detailed comments. I want to buy a good media player, but can't run through the complex information and bugs these things have. Probably it is better to wait till these things are in more user friendly formats more like PnP.

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