The idea is borrowed from similar DesireHD and Notion Ink Adam threads. Let's put the videos of Asus Transformer in one place and make this thread the go-to place for helpful hands-on/reviews/unboxing videos.
The following are the videos I have found so far (NOTE: none of them are mine, I am only posting links to the videos along with the uploader's name here):
TRANSFORMER REVIEWS:
Asus Transformer review by andyxover:
Part1: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bvxth_Sxfps
Part 2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FEQqXi-3NpU
Asus Transformer reviews by gadgetjm again:
Hardware: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h4PANgq9Ais
Software: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_qXz49UgGIU
Conclusion: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vsSlZ997Y84
Transformer's Hardware overview by techinstyle:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7emGTs1Rvn8
Engadget Review:
http://www.viddler.com/explore/engadget/videos/2698/
ASUS Transformer Review By AndroidCentral:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q6gBBVR-l1Y
AnandTech's Review of Transformer:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8OWS85CKQgY
BBC's review "The tablet that thinks it's a netbook":
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programme...ne/9463528.stm
UNBOXING:
Transformer Unboxing by AndrewKindred:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V_pTUs2ZlYI
Transformer Tablet and Keyboard Dock Unboxing by NetbookReviewsN:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TaMSp_2GZq4
HANDS-ON:
Review of Polaris office on transformer by andyxover:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OGSfL6XjcN8
Transformer apps video by sugerg:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SSMnWORy9eU
Playing Samurai 2 : Vengence by ringhkdemo:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AeIvUoUmXo4
Transformer's software innovations and HDMI output by techinstyle:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7up-ctI-HbM
Transformer Internet Browsing and tethering by sugerg:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YZiGxKyuDRI
720P video on Trasnformer by ringhkdemo:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wjLW9Y-5BX8
1080P video on Trasnformer by ringhkdemo:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jDroL5rIjKI
Transformer mouse and keyboard by AndroidCentral:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zO-k1EWaM3w
Playing games by gadgetjm:
http://youtu.be/peUaiU21_Ag
Docking Keyboard by gadgetjm:
http://youtu.be/dUi1k5PMeMI
COMPARISONS:
iPad 2 vs Asus Transformer by gadgetjm:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ujRcBmZSVWw
Asus Transformer vs Xoom (Hardware) by Engadget via staythesame7487:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-wTcTUvUJNI
(pretty detailed comparison) ASUS Eee Pad Transformer vs iPad 2 by NCIX
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Rm8NQAib-A
MISC:
ASUS Eee Pad Transformer Official Commercial:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nc9-xzqlvc8
The Eee Pad Story Episode 1:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LBmq2knUL_Y
The Eee Pad Story Episode 2:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zc9zbeAR4LI
The Eee Pad Story Episode 3:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yLuwp13MUEY
The Eee Pad Story Episode 4:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YrGksoJlZlA
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No more complains
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Thanks for this great thread
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Thanks huppelkutje, I have updated the original port by adding categories.
Great idea!! Thansks for posting
Also if you want you can post those stupid "The Eee Pad Story" segments by Asus to the "Misc" category
The Eee Pad Story Episode 1:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LBmq2knUL_Y
Episode 2:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zc9zbeAR4LI
Episode 3:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yLuwp13MUEY
Episode 4:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YrGksoJlZlA
i wish the reviewers would stop calling recent apps running apps. you cant close them because they aren't necessarily open...
More Transformer reviews by gadgetjm
Playing games: http://youtu.be/peUaiU21_Ag
Docking Keyboard: http://youtu.be/dUi1k5PMeMI
bcostea said:
Playing games: http://youtu.be/peUaiU21_Ag
Docking Keyboard: http://youtu.be/dUi1k5PMeMI
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Thanks bcostea, I've added your videos and a couple of other nice videos from AndroidCentral.com
bbc video review
Just found this one from the BBC
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/click_online/9463528.stm
czm said:
Just found this one from the BBC
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/click_online/9463528.stm
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Thanks!
Also added a detailed comparison video by ncix between ipad2 and transformer
As I read everywhere, our A500 has many probs reproducing video at 1080p, worse than this I've to say that I hadn't any luck even with 720p format.
I've tried mani different players, with or without added codecs, with hard and soft decoding, but the results are always poor.
I'm talking 'bout Utube films, but also some H264 or .mkv (perfectly working on every pc or notebook even with am embedded graphic adap.
So, what we're gonna do? wait for a solution embedded into the OTA final 3.1, or is it an hardware problem we are facing right now despite the technical declared data of the various OEMs? Isn't tegra2 capable to manage hi-res videos?
Some guru's technical explanation would be appreciate, in order to clarify this situation, at least to give us good reason to hope or to give up with further expectations...
...and in any case, I'm glad to thank you for thy wonderfull job I do in this forum
some facts,
- stock acer rom 3.1 plays 1080p mp4 material just fine through HDMI.
- it will not be possible to play a 720p movie on tv as 1080p require much scaling and looks lousy.
- desktop is only 1280x800 (close to 720p) so don't expect 1080p just like that, it would look awful(even with 720p its still 4x scaling). (i seen it on folio100) and LG Optimus 2x does it too..
I havent got any avi at 1080p, and no mkv's to test at 1080p.
the WMV 1080p i have did not switch screen res to 1080p when played, so maybe its just for mp4..
the screen Is actually larger... its 1280x800 you get 720 because it removes the bottom bar(this is done so you don't see stretching and it will look horrible)...
you cant get actually 1080... its a mirror... you cant mirror something to make it look bigger, Its just a workaround triggered by the hardware decoder... that gets you the 1080...
Dexter_nlb said:
some facts,
- stock acer rom 3.1 plays 1080p mp4 material just fine through HDMI.
- it will not be possible to play a 720p movie on tv as 1080p require much scaling and looks lousy.
- desktop is only 1280x800 (close to 720p) so don't expect 1080p just like that, it would look awful(even with 720p its still 4x scaling). (i seen it on folio100) and LG Optimus 2x does it too..
I havent got any avi at 1080p, and no mkv's to test at 1080p.
the WMV 1080p i have did not switch screen res to 1080p when played, so maybe its just for mp4..
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Do you mean 720 on the Acer screen or on the TV? Cuz when I play 720p thru HDMI the image is perfect.
Why when I plug my device into my 1080 HD TV I can never get the resolution correct, the closest I can get it is when I set it to wide but I see my device not fitting the screen it is larger, now I am just talking about my desktop not videos.
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thor2002ro said:
the screen Is actually larger... its 1280x800 you get 720 because it removes the bottom bar(this is done so you don't see stretching and it will look horrible)...
you cant get actually 1080... its a mirror... you cant mirror something to make it look bigger, Its just a workaround triggered by the hardware decoder... that gets you the 1080...
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Motorola Atrix(tegra2 baseD) do 2 separate screens. its indeed possible with tegra2 to have 2 different screen, i ported atrix release to folio100 and had a mediacenter on hdmi + android screen locally on tablet..
like with the 1080p playback, where you have a black screen on tablet, i think thats how 3.x handle it for now.. although its possible (since atrix has done it)
the chipset handles 2 screens fine, since atrix can do it, but vendors making the software is not making it possible, so what Google is doing is not much on this area, only motorola manage to do it, with their ubuntu + mediacenter + android solution.
lets hope someone else makes it.
thunderkiss65 said:
Why when I plug my device into my 1080 HD TV I can never get the resolution correct, the closest I can get it is when I set it to wide but I see my device not fitting the screen it is larger, now I am just talking about my desktop not videos.
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same issues found on pre-3.x tablets... ElocityA7 managed to fix it, but i dont remember if folio100 got it fixed (as almost no updates happened)
i guess they're starting over,.. my tv in "just scan" mode still shows acer incorrectly.. so its for sure possible to look forward to a fix for it..
Dexter_nlb said:
Motorola Atrix(tegra2 baseD) do 2 separate screens. its indeed possible with tegra2 to have 2 different screen, i ported atrix release to folio100 and had a mediacenter on hdmi + android screen locally on tablet..
like with the 1080p playback, where you have a black screen on tablet, i think thats how 3.x handle it for now.. although its possible (since atrix has done it)
the chipset handles 2 screens fine, since atrix can do it, but vendors making the software is not making it possible, so what Google is doing is not much on this area, only motorola manage to do it, with their ubuntu + mediacenter + android solution.
lets hope someone else makes it.
same issues found on pre-3.x tablets... ElocityA7 managed to fix it, but i dont remember if folio100 got it fixed (as almost no updates happened)
i guess they're starting over,.. my tv in "just scan" mode still shows acer incorrectly.. so its for sure possible to look forward to a fix for it..
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I can try to port the mediacentrer... have no ideea how the kernel will take it... or how the roms will react will try...
thor2002ro said:
I can try to port the mediacentrer... have no ideea how the kernel will take it... or how the roms will react will try...
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i just looked through the atrix section, and it seems that ppl experience only 720p with its mediacenter function, so it might be 2 diff. displays but still only 720p..
so probably not worth spending time on. but they do have some technique to split the picture.
Also..
What about that Bourne trailler ?? How come it plays perfect on the transformer and choppy on the iconia??
Hardware is supposed to be the same' so what is iconia missing??
anstelios said:
Also..
What about that Bourne trailler ?? How come it plays perfect on the transformer and choppy on the iconia??
Hardware is supposed to be the same' so what is iconia missing??
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link to it please....
Dexter_nlb said:
Motorola Atrix(tegra2 baseD) do 2 separate screens. its indeed possible with tegra2 to have 2 different screen, i ported atrix release to folio100 and had a mediacenter on hdmi + android screen locally on tablet..
like with the 1080p playback, where you have a black screen on tablet, i think thats how 3.x handle it for now.. although its possible (since atrix has done it)
the chipset handles 2 screens fine, since atrix can do it, but vendors making the software is not making it possible, so what Google is doing is not much on this area, only motorola manage to do it, with their ubuntu + mediacenter + android solution.
lets hope someone else makes it.
same issues found on pre-3.x tablets... ElocityA7 managed to fix it, but i dont remember if folio100 got it fixed (as almost no updates happened)
i guess they're starting over,.. my tv in "just scan" mode still shows acer incorrectly.. so its for sure possible to look forward to a fix for it..
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Thanks for responding dexter, What is odd in this video this guy has his tablet hooked up through hdmi and if you look close everything on hd tv looks the same as tablet, When i hook mine up to hd tv everything is oversized no matter what i set my hd tv to, Do you have the same issue when you try to play a game through your tablet..
http://www.youtube.com/user/ChuckChoi?blend=1&ob=5#p/u/0/sTbBTb-4WjA
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http://www.dvdloc8.com/clip.php?movieid=12954&clipid=1
It played fine on the Xoom with 3.01 too. There was a review of the A500 on youtube a while ago and they were shocked that this trailer played fine on the Xoom but not the Iconia. It still doesn't play in the leaked Acer 3.1. It plays fine on the Transformer and Galaxy based roms though.
Here's the youtube review. The video is tested at around 10:40 to 12:40 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iMmS8ObCMbA
my updated kernel I shipped to Dexter for some testing plays that trailer fluent
Guys the hdmi out audio is too bad........anyone experiancing this??.....is there a fix??
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thor2002ro said:
my updated kernel I shipped to Dexter for some testing plays that trailer fluent
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Well thats great!
Is it compatible with leaked acer 3.1 Roms??
anstelios said:
Well thats great!
Is it compatible with leaked acer 3.1 Roms??
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have no idea how the roms will work with it... I'm using asus based rom
I can confirm that the Bourne video lags like hell on my A500 with the leaked stock 3.1 update.
MichellBak said:
I can confirm that the Bourne video lags like hell on my A500 with the leaked stock 3.1 update.
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I know, it's exactly the same as the stock Acer 3.01 rom.
I hope that the leaked 3.1 isn't final otherwise I wonder wtf Acer have been doing all this time.
chr0m said:
I know, it's exactly the same as the stock Acer 3.01 rom.
I hope that the leaked 3.1 isn't final otherwise I wonder wtf Acer have been doing all this time.
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I'm guessing it's probably got something to do with the 1080p output being disabled for now, since it works with the kernels that have enabled that feature. Just guessing though - we'll have to see what Acer decides to do
On a side note, for people wondering, the video file in question is a 1080p H.264 encoded MP4 file with a rather high bitrate (didn't check the average, but some parts of the video exceeded 12 Mbps).
thor2002ro said:
my updated kernel I shipped to Dexter for some testing plays that trailer fluent
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i dont think its kernel issue..
Bourne movie playys perfectly with Galaxy rom with my kernel "angel" edition, which does not work with the "dextersiconia" rom, where bourne movie stutter.. so its drivers...any acer image has the issue.. so decoding issue is placed in the handling of the containers..
but firmware for chipset is different in galaxy/virt. images, compared to acer stock roms..
Does anyone else think that Ice Age (free with the N10) looks a little bit blurry?
Is it because of the resizing of the 1080p resolution to the N10 resolution?
stormricker said:
Does anyone else think that Ice Age (free with the N10) looks a little bit blurry?
Is it because of the resizing of the 1080p resolution to the N10 resolution?
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Somewhat, yes. It is also due to the relatively low bit rate.
I have local 1080p bluray rips that look considerably better on the N10.
I think its due to the contrast being not so great on the n10 but compared to my tf700 it has more details.
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Most other things are incredibly sharp....even with the contrast ratio. I need to try A Blu-ray......
I have two tablets... one is an Acer Iconia A500 and the other is an ASUS TF101 Transformer.
Both are the SAME tablets - hardware wise, and software wise. Same specs, minus the camera.
Why, on the Acer, do MP4 movies play flawlessly, whereas on the Asus, they are choppy and the video is behind the sound?
Hardware wise they are the same tablets. Both have stock Android 4.0.3.
Ideas?