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<p class=MsoNormal>I have the Patriot Box Office. Got a good deal from Tiger
Direct ($67 after rebates and using bing cashback) also included their wireless
g usb adapter. The box works pretty well with mythtv using upnp or an nfs
mount of the files. The latest firmware (04) works better with upnp though
for unknown reasons sometimes fails for ATSC streams. These same files
play fine under nfs. To my pleasant surprise it plays both 720p and 1080i
ATSC files from my hdhr fine over the wireless g network. There are
wireless n adapters for it too but you have to be careful as it only has a few modules
provided. Of course there is no commercial skip via upnp or nfs but
the little yellow button on the remote advances 30s so that’s helpful.
Telnet is enabled so you can poke around. The firmware can be unpacked and
so presumably repacked and stuff added. One could flash it. There
is a serial connection inside that allows recovery form a bad flash but you
need to get a $20 adapter. I don’t believe, unlike the wdtv, anyone has
flashed their own firmware on it. People have tried with very limited
success to stick the firmware from other realtek based players on it –
tends to screw up the remote. There is a forum dedicated to it over at
patriot.<o:p></o:p></p>
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