Today we look at QNAP’s Network Media Player, the NMP-1000 that features a robust multimedia server and can serve as a very capable Network Attached Device.  We have seen QNAPs products in the past – mainly in network storage where their attached devices have performed superbly.  The NMP-1000 is a sort of hybrid dual functioning media player and storage device.  Whereas some players only have the ability to connect to their televisions and stream multimedia, the NMP-1000 can not only play multimedia files, it can host them on an optional hard drive and become a network attached storage device.At a retail cost of $439.00, this is the most expensive media player we have seen so expectations for this player are very high.  Well, boy does it look good on paper!  At the heart of the NMP-1000 is a Sigma SMP8635 SoC hardware-based decoder that can output multimedia content via an HDMI 1.3 interface at resolutions up to 1080P. The NMP-1000 can play almost all audio and video file formats such as the popular file files:  MKV, M2TS, AVI, FLAC, WMA, MP3, and WAV.