When we reviewed Patriot’s Box Office Media Player last week, we were very impressed with the high-definition playback and the overall versatility of the unit.  The Box Office played almost every media file we threw at it.  Our AVI and high-def MVK files played flawlessly from the local hard drive we installed as well as USB attached drives.  We even able to stream HD files from our local shares and network attached storage.  We were also very pleased you could find this player for as low as $99 which makes it one of the top buys of this holiday season.Is the Patriot the perfect media extender?  Not exactly, but it’s very close.  We did have issues playing certain files popular for the High-Def enthusiasts, namely, the ability to play the popular Blu-ray ISO format was lacking.  There were also issues with support for certain audio codecs (ie. Dolby TrueHD) and formats (ie. Linear Pulse Code Modulation or LCPM). At the time of its release, Patriot promised early adopters that the company would be diligent in issuing updates and support for users.  This week Patriot released their first firmware update for the Box Office.  This beta firmware adds support for Blu-ray ISO files and gives the player support for multi-channel HDMI audio out.Below, you can see a typical Blu-ray ISO file is not recognized by the Patriot player.  It is our hope that the new firmware upgrade can fix this.