Strong Australia

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Strong Australia is a consumer electronics manufacturer that supplies broadcasting receivers and other video and audio related apparatus. Their main business is making products for use in Australia such as set top boxes (STBs) and personal video recorders (PVRs) to be used with satellite television or digital television. Strong Australia in recent times have been manufacturing Android media players and IPTV products to expand their lineup.

The company has a head office in Melbourne, Australia, and its parent company Strong Technologies bases its operations in the Middle East and Africa.

Personal Video Recorder

Strong Australia produces PVRs for standard- and high-definition television program recording. The PVRs store the digital files in a container-format with the .TS file extension on their hard-disk drives or on external drives via USB; software updates are provided on their website which include fixes and improvements on both previous and current models.

Media Players

Since 2012, Strong Australia have been introducing Android-based media players to the Australian retail market in the form of set top boxes. Beginning with the SRT AN4, this was the first media player available in the Australian market with an Android based operating system running Ice Cream Sandwich which also included a DVB-T2 terrestrial tuner for the viewing of live television. The SRT AN4M model is the same without including the DVB-T2 tuner. Both units utilise a Telechips TCC892x CPU with 1GB of RAM, two USB 2.0 ports, a coaxial audio out port for digital audio output and one HDMI output.

Rock-Box

Rock-Box is the name of Strong Australia's more recent Android media player series, with two different models including the SRT RB2 and SRT RB4. Both models run Android 4.2 Jelly Bean and use Rockchip RK3066 and RK3188 processors, a selection of dual and quad core chips relating to the names of the Rock-Box model numbers (SRT RB2 - Dual core, SRT RB-4 - Quad core).

The key differences between the SRT RB2 and SRT RB4 along with their chipset differences are as follows:

Both models use the same Mali-400 GPU although the GPU inside the SRT RB4 is clocked slightly higher as a result of the quad core processor. 2.4GHz Wi-Fi with external antenna, Bluetooth, MicroSD card reader and four USB 2.0 ports make it a suitable media player for different applications and will accept common external hard drives with formats including but not limited to FAT 32 and NTFS as well as USB mice or keyboards, both wired and wireless.

These products come with the stock Android applications installed as well as the Netflix, Hulu and XBMC applications. There is no skin or aesthetic changes on the version of Android in place on the Rock-Box products so it is a pure image of Android with minor tweaks for the set top box format.

Models

A complete list of models is available on the Strong Australia website

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