Zotac Zbox AD03BR

Jim Carter, 2012-03-16

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I got the Zotac ZBOX AD03BR to be a home theater playback node. Unfortunately after a year of use, we decided that we didn't want to live with its issues, and reverted to the old machine.

It did not wake reliably to record TV shows; on rare occasions it would go into an infinite loop in the BIOS. But rare is too frequent in this role.
It has no problem to perform 720p video content, but HD video, i.e. 1080p compressed as MPEG-2, is just at the limit of its ability, and it drops frames.