Check out this design

[TXRon]

I saw this show up in an email… A new look for sure and storage city

VONTAR X6 TV Box Android 11 Amlogic S905Y4 2GB 16GB Support 2.5inch SATA6 Hard Disk AV1 H.265 Dual Wifi Build in BT Voice Remote| | - AliExpress
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[Shayde]

Very interesting design! I have a lot of old laptop hard drives just sitting around doing nothing, would be nice to put at least 1 of them to work again. Price is decent enough.

[Shayde]

Was just looking at it a little closer…this can’t be right, only supports mkv format for video?

[TXRon]

strange, coulda swore I saw av1 at a glance. Makes no sense

[Shayde]

Yeah, that would be extremely limiting. And weird. LOL

[AJS1]

At first glance it does say av1

[itzme]

it does say it in yhe pic

[Shayde]

I see it does say Av1 in the picture, but even so, don’t know that I have any videos with that codec. I have lots of avi, but not av1, lots of mp4, and some mkv too of course. Av1 is (I think) a new type container with higher compression, so you can get a clearer picture with a smaller file size.

[itzme]

no expert here, but i think AV1 is the next “latest and greatest”…with better streaming for all because of the compression you mentioned…so just have to wait and see…

[Shayde]

I agree. It is supposed to be the latest and greatest, which is good. My worry is that it might not be backwards compatible with the videos I already have on my hard drive. In other words, my older pre-av1 stuff might not play on it. Which would be silly, but you just never know about some of these new devices with new “ideas”.