The Diamond Multimedia AMP1000 is a box about the size of a wireless router or DVD player which is designed to let you run Android apps on a TV. It runs Google Android 4.0, has a relatively speedy processor, and lets you stream videos from Netflix, YouTube, or other internet sites to your television.

You can also use the AMP1000 to play Android games, act like a media extender by streaming content from a PC over your home network, or as a tool for surfing the web on your TV.

The AMP1000 has a list price of about $120, but you can pick one up from Newegg for $100.

The folks at Diamond Multimedia sent a demo unit to Liliputing so we could review it this summer, and since they didn’t want it back we’re going to give it away to one lucky reader.

Diamond Multimedia AMP1000

While the AMP1000 is a bit bulkier than some of the Android mini PCs and TV sticks I’ve tested this year, it’s a fairly compact and capable device designed to fit into your home media setup.

The AMP1000 features a 1 GHz AMlogic AM8726 ARM Cortex-A9 processors, Mali 400 graphics, 512MB of RAM, and 4GB of storage.

It has WiFi and Ethernet, HDMI and A/V jacks, 2 USB ports, and a full-sized USB port.

There’s also a wireless remote control with a QWERTY thumb keyboard and a gyroscopic sensor. You can use it like an air mouse, media player remote, or a keyboard. Or you can always plug in a keyboard and mouse using the AMP1000’s USB ports.

How to win: Leave a comment by 5:00AM Eastern, 12/06/2012

In order to enter, just leave a comment below this post. Make sure you give me a way to contact you. If you login to leave a comment with your email address, Facebook, Twitter, or Google+ that should be enough for me to contact you.

Entries must be received by 5:00AM Eastern Time, December 6th, 2012.

Here are a few things to keep in mind:

  • This contest is only open to residents of the continental US. International shipping is expensive.
  • Please leave only one comment. I’ll toss out your entry if I find you’ve commented twice.
  • A winner will be randomly chosen from all valid entries.
  • Once you’ve been contacted, you’ve got 48 hours to respond. If I don’t hear back within that period, I’ll select another winner.
  • If you’ve won something else from Liliputing in the past 30 days, it’s someone else’s turn. Please refrain from entering, because if I draw your name I’m just going to toss it out and try again.
  • Writers for Liliputing as well as their friends and family members are disqualified.

Thanks again to Diamond Multimedia for supplying us with this AMP1000 media player.

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375 replies on “Diamond Multimedia AMP1000 Android media player giveaway”

  1. hmm 372 comments bet only like 2/3rds are elegible including me but i never win even 1 free lottery scratch off if i buy 20

  2. freaking awesome.. would love to gift to my daughter so she has web access!

  3. What a nice Item It sure be nice to have being I havent watched TV in over a year… 🙂

  4. this would be a great way to add streaming Netflix (and doing a few other things too) to our living room tv…

  5. Trying to move to an all open source ecosystem for everything the only thing thats missing right now is a tablet(on the way) and a set top box for my tv and this would be perfect

  6. I could use this for tying tings together here, as my present setup is a bit of a kludge with a sneakernet interlink.

  7. Seems like a good deal. I wonder how difficult it would be to upgrade it to jelly bean, or if that’s even possible. Would it replace an xbox as far as it’s media capabilities go?

  8. I would love, love, LOVE to have the opportunity to put this to the test.. I also like the fact that this site doesnt support ie.. gave me a chuckle.. If/when I win, I can be reached via messages on FB

  9. Cool, I’ve never even heard of it till now but it’d be nice to give it a try. Seems like fun.

  10. If you have this gear sitting around for months, how much do you use it? What are the chances of seeing follow-up articles with long-term impressions of the devices, support from their companies, and that sort of thing?

  11. I’ve never heard of this or anything like this before. I came to your site to see a review of a tablet I’m considering buying for my daughter. The review of the tablet was very informative and gave me a lot to consider. I then decided to look around your site to see what else was available and I saw this review. This was also very informative and I’m now considering getting one of these for a good friend of mine. We’ll see. Of course, if I should happen to be the lucky one, I’ll be happy. (ssg_ljh@yahoo)

  12. I would love to win this so I can move my PC back to my monitor instead of being connected to my tv. It would save so much space

  13. I was thinking that I could watch movies from my server by browsing to them because I have Apache running. But with Android, there’s probably an app for that!

  14. I’ve been wanting to try a media player and this one looks pretty cool.

  15. I would really like to have this. Love the website, btw. Never sensed the need to opinion before tho. Freebies does that to.

  16. I would love to have this. Love the site, btw. Never felt the need to comment before tho. Free stuff does that to a man…

  17. wow, that’s so nice of you to turn it into a giveaway instead of just keeping it!
    m8usi at yahoo dot com

  18. I’d like to see if this would work with a Motorola Atrix lapdock. With a HDMI and USB OTG cable it should work. Pick me for science!

  19. wow, this device is xbmc 12 capable. im in and willing to pay for shippng cost. thanks

  20. OK, my broken touchpad only streamed to itself. This will make my tv a touchpad.

  21. Just got a Roku. This looks like it might be better. Pick me please!

  22. Androids the best if you know how to utilize it! (I want to win this!!)

  23. I like This… Cool Stuff I like This Cause I want To Play Like HD games. And Facebook On T.V!!I love That..and Video Like HD!! It Can Help also For my Educational Stuff.

  24. My son would never leave his room. Wait…maybe that’s a good thing…

  25. Another exciting development on the Android-on-TV front. Count me in. 🙂

  26. This is a fascinating step in the right direction to really centralize the home entertainment/theater experience. I look forward to seeing what the future holds, and if television manufacturers will see this as the next logical step to take. I would love to try one of these out.

  27. Just the thing I’ve always wanted. Please consider me a worthy choice.

  28. I’d love to enter the giveaway. Thanks for such interesting reporting.

  29. Never win anything in my life, maybe this will be the first of many. Was looking to buy Vizio CoStar…which is better? Free one of course!!

  30. I would love to give it a shot, I have netflix but can only watch on my pc, if it worked before the update thats cool by me. Count me in please. Thanks

  31. Pretty cool device, I can see many uses for it.

    I’d like to enter the contest.

  32. This would be great when I was folding a couple of weeks’ worth of laundry in the bedroom. No Roku in the bedroom, which is why the laundry piles up. *laughing*

  33. That looks like a great media player, and much better than what I currently use.

  34. Here I am commenting! This thing would be a step up from my (nowadays barely supported) Logitech Revue.

  35. This is cool, finally get to have my phone back and leave the kiddies playing on the television, like it was supposed to be! 🙂

  36. I don’t have a tv with HDMI, this is one of the only devices that I can use (via component video) so please please let me have it?

  37. Thanks for the opportunity to win! I really enjoy this site.

  38. Throwing in my hat in this one too. Here’s to hoping I win at least one.

  39. Gr8 site, been following your tweets since a couple of days and now you even have gr8 prizes 2!

  40. I will take it, has they come out with a Jelly Bean rom for this?

  41. I wouldn’t mind winning one. Currently using a big ol ATX sized pc as a HTPC.

  42. OK. I’m in. Do I see component connections on the back? Now that’s a little unusual for one of these Android boxes

  43. pretty cool device, i like how it includes a browser for those of us without browsers on our TVs. the keyboard remote simplfies things alot too i bet.

  44. Hopefully this will be better than any Western Digital device. I’ve had good luck with WD devices.

    1. Same person, wanted to post with an account with contact info, please don’t disqualify.

  45. Awesome, pick me please! I started reading this blog way back when it used to just be about netbooks 😀

  46. I could use one of these to replace my MK808 that I still haven’t gotten to display on my TV.

  47. I need this, my tv has a problem, its stupid ): it has trouble with day to day use, this would make it smart, please help my tv! give this to me!

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