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alaTest has collected and analyzed 8 reviews of Astone Media Gear AP-360T. The average rating for this product is 3.0/5, compared to an average rating of 4.2/5 for other products in the same category for all reviews. People are impressed by the size. The usability also gets good opinions. Some have doubts about the reliability.
price, usability, size
reliability
We analyzed user and expert ratings, product age and more factors. Compared to other products in the same category the Astone Media Gear AP-360T is awarded an overall alaScore™ of 86/100 = Very good quality.
Expert review by : Campbell Simpson (goodgearguide.com.au)
This media streamer has a range of features and comes with a 1TB hard drive
Easy to operate, quick and powerful decoding
Bland interface, no inbuilt wireless
The Astone Media Gear AP-360T is a fuss-free media streamer. It's not flawless, but if you're looking for an easy-to-use streamer with a reasonably powerful feature set this is one to consider.
Expert review by : Alex Kidman (cnet.com.au)
A great list of potential features in this PVR is undone almost entirely by instability issues, leaving the AP-360T as a unit best avoided.
Flexibility to install your own hard drive ; Supports a wide range of video formats ; Very portable for recorded TV
Woefully unstable ; Pressing remote buttons is a guessing game ; Woefully unstable ; Loses TV channels ; Did we mention it's a bit on the unstable side
Having tested two units provided by the vendor with the latest firmware, we'd still stand behind that conclusion. As with anything, firmware could make changes to stability, but at the time of writing, that clearly isn't the case with the AP-360T.
Consumer review (cnet.com.au)
I bought this unit with 1.76 firmware. (This was confirmed to be a unit post "HDD controller" recall. Worked fine with only minor annoyances for 6 months. Then lost HDD contents and became hopelessly unstable. Would go round in circles at boot time...
Cheap to buy
Unreliable, locks up & prone to HDD wipes
Consumer review (cnet.com.au)
Hopeless machine. The poor menu system was something I could deal with, but when it promptly decided to stop working and effectively lost my whole media collection, the camel's back was broken.
Cheap
unstable, HDD broke and lost all my media
Consumer review (cnet.com.au)
I've just downloaded a Taiwanese firmware (1.96) found through the Astone forum but not available from the AStone site. From what I've found this has fixed the majority of the bugs outlined in this review.
Price, simple to put together, lots of features
Single Tuner, GUI (menus, epg, etc) not very good
Consumer review (cnet.com.au)
One of the 3 purchased keeps freezing. Otherwise I'm very happy with them. All have 1tb HDD.
Bought 3 now
1st one very good, 2nd one keeps freezing, 3rd one is good
Consumer review (cnet.com.au)
I have had 2 machines for about 6 months now, big mistake was I updated the firmware, each patch provides more and more problems. Current bug is units freeze from time to time, stop recognising external contact
Price, size, ease of use, external drives
Software is a joke, each patch provides more problems
Consumer review (cnet.com.au)
good price and features, firmware is updradable, plays all my media player, buy only single tuner. editor's review is not so clear
Features, updatable, price
Single Tuner
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