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Popcorn Hour Getting YouTube Access Back

Jeremy Jones — Mon, 10 May 2010 02:43:31 +0000

Looks like the Popcorn Hour media streamers will be getting YouTube back. Well the A-200 and C-200 units will. The A-100 and the A-110 won’t handle flash so no YouTube for them. YouTube will be an application just like the others apps that are available. I’m just realizing that my A-100 keeps getting more out of date by every new release.

(via Engadget HD)

Popcorn Hour A-200 Review

Jeremy Jones — Sun, 07 Feb 2010 15:30:28 +0000

The Popcorn Hour A-200 is the latest media streamer they offer. It offers faster processor, more RAM and more flash memory over the previous model. At $179 it has the same hardware as the $300 C-200. The C-200 has a LCD, which is bad, and HDD quick dock but I feel the A-200 is the better buy. MediaSmartServer.net has a review of the A-200. The biggest pro with the Popcorn Hour units is media format playback. They can play almost anything you throw at it. There is also a new Flash UI that is coming to A-200 and the C-200.

Popcorn Hour A-200 Released

Jeremy Jones — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 14:16:19 +0000

Popcorn Hour quietly released the A-200 media player. It goes on sale on January 18th and I’m sure there will be some wait time with that like when I ordered my A-100. It is $179 but features a new design and faster processor for handling all the HD content you have ripped. It’s very similar to the C-200 specs but doesn’t have the front LCD or drive bay. And really from all the reviews on the C-200 the LCD isn’t worth it. I’m thinking it’s about time to update my outdated A-100.

Supported Media File Formats
Video containers:
MPEG1/2/4 Elementary (M1V, M2V, M4V)
MPEG1/2 PS (M2P, MPG, DAT, VOB)
MPEG2 Transport Stream (TS, TP, TRP, M2T, M2TS, MTS)
AVI, ASF, WMV
Matroska (MKV)
MOV (H.264), MP4, RMP4

Video Decoders:
XVID SD/HD
MPEG-1
MPEG-2 MP@HL
MPEG-4.2 ASP@L5, 720p, 1-point GMC
MPEG-4.10 (H.264) : BP@L3, MP@L4.0, HP@L4.0, HP@L4.1
WMV9 : MP@HL
SMPTE 421M (VC-1) : MP@HL, AP@L3

Audio Containers:
AAC, M4A
MPEG audio (MP1, MP2, MP3, MPA)
WAV
WMA
FLAC
OGG

Audio Decoders:
Dolby Digital
DTS
WMA, WMA Pro
MPEG-1 Layer 1, 2, 3
MPEG-4 AAC-LC
MPEG-4 HE-AAC
MPEG-4 BSAC
LPCM
FLAC
Vorbis

Audio Pass-Through:
DTS, DTS-HD HR, DTS-HD MA
Dolby Digital, Dolby Digital Plus, Dolby True HD

Other Formats:
ISO, IFO navigation
AVCHD navigation
Simple BD navigation

Photo Formats:
JPEG, BMP, PNG, GIF

Subtitle Formats:
SRT, MicroDVD SUB, SSA, SUB/IDX

Review: Popcorn Hour C-200

Jeremy Jones — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 14:35:46 +0000

I have been a fan of the Popcorn Hour media streamers since they first announced the A-100. I was on a two month waiting list to get mine. I haven’t updated to the C-200 yet mostly because my A-100 still fits my needs as most of my content is still in SD and I didn’t need the TrueHD formats that Blu-Ray provide. GeekTonic had the chance to review the C-200 which you should read over if your thinking about buying. From what most have said the hardware is great. It’s the GUI that needs work. It looked dated when it was released for the A-100 but now having a device like the C-200 it is ancient. The nice thing is there are plug-ins to change the default look and some have very nice interface like movie jukebox. Maybe someday I will be able to test this out myself. A video of the interface is below.

Popcorn Hour C-200 on Sale August 27th

Jeremy Jones — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 10:09:39 +0000

The Popcorn Hour C-200 is going on sale August 27th. They expect the first batch on September 3rd. If the previous versions are any indication of how popular it will be I would order early. I was on an extremely long wait list for the A100. The C-200 has lots of new features and will be one of the best media streamers available. You can find out about pricing and specs here. The email I received from them is below.

We are pleased to inform you that we will be launching C-200 for public
order on 27th August 2009 (12:00am PST).
Please visit http://www.popcornhour.com on 27th August 2009 (12:00am PST)
onwards to begin the ordering process.
Your credit card will only be charged when the product is available and
ready for shipping.
We estimate that the upcoming batch will be available around 3rd of
September 2009.
Depending on which batch your order falls into, your credit card will be
charged accordingly.

Any shipment status update will be announced in our forum thread

http://www.networkedmediatank.com/forumdisplay.php?fid=68

Please note that Google Checkout will perform an “Auth” operation on your
credit card when you place the order.
Google will hold the sum listed solely to confirm that your credit card is
valid.
Popcorn Hour will not have made any charges to your credit card yet at
this point.

Thank you for your support,
The Popcorn Hour Sales Team

Popcorn Hour C-200 Pricing and Video

Jeremy Jones — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 02:45:08 +0000

The Popcorn Hour C-200 is official now. But not available yet. I’m on the sign up list to be notified when it’s available. I wish they would send me one to at least play with. My last videos I did of the original Popcorn Hour A-100 had almost 100,000 views on YouTube. That should at least get me a demo yet, right? The C-200 is priced at $299. Not terrible since you can just add a Blu-Ray drive to it. The video above is just the unboxing, no UI shots. I’ll notify everyone when I hear it’s available. My guess is there will probably be another wait list of a couple months.

Popcorn Hour C200 Announced

Jeremy Jones — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 01:50:16 +0000

Popcorn Hour C200 was announced in the forums today. It looks a lot bigger than the previous models. It’s more the size of a cable box. There are some very interesting improvements including Blu-Ray support and gigabit ethernet. I’ll be interested to see pricing. I might have to upgrade from the A100 that I have now. My A100 has been loaned out to co-workers for the past month or so because everyone was interested in it. Some more details are below.

* The new PopcornHour will be called the C-200.
* The C200 uses the Sigma Designs SMP8643 chipset – 667MHz CPU with floating point coprocessor
* Dimensions: 16.73″ x 11.42″ x 3.14″ and 8.3 lbs
* Memory: 512MB DDR2 DRAM, 256MB NAND Flash
* A/V Outputs: HDMI v1.3a with CEC, 36bpp deep color, 12-bit xvYCC processing and HDCP 1.2 content protection
Component Video, S-Video, Composite Video, Stereo Analog Audio, S/PDIF Optical and Coaxial Digital Audio
* 2x USB 2.0 host on front and 2x USB host on back
* 1x USB 2.0 internal
* 2x SATA (one occupied by HDD tray
* 3.5″ HDD Tray
* Internal mounting for 2.5″ HDD
* 2.4GHz RF Remote Control
* IR Remote Control port
* Network: Ethernet 10/100/1000 and miniPCI MII inteface for optional 11n WiFi card
* Connectity options: Bonjour, UPnP SSDP, UPnP AV, Windows Media Connect, Windows Media Player NSS, Samba, NFS
* Media Servers: myiHome, myiHomeLite, myiHomeMS (UPnP), MSP Portal
* Third Party Media Servers: GB-PVR, BitTorrent P2P, Usenet downloader, WizD, SwissCenter, Llink,
* NAS access: SMB, NFS, FTP
* Video Containers supported: MPEG1/2/4 Elementary (M1V, M2V, M4V), MPEG1/2 PS (M2P, MPG, DAT, VOB), MPEG2 Transport Stream (TS, TP, TRP, M2T, M2TS, MTS), AVI, ASF, WMV, Matroska (MKV), MOV (H.264), MP4, RMP4
* Video Decoders supported: XVID SD/HD, MPEG-1, MPEG-2 MP@HL, MPEG-4.2 ASP@L5, 720p, 1-point GMC
MPEG-4.10 (H.264), BP@L3, MP@L4.0, HP@L4.0, HP@L4.1, WMV9, MP@HL, SMPTE 421M (VC-1), MP@HL, AP@L3
* Audio Containers supported: AC, M4A, MPEG audio (MP1, MP2, MP3, MPA), WAV, WMA, FLAC, OGG
* Audio Decoders supported: Dolby Digital, DTS, WMA, WMA Pro, MPEG-1 Layer 1, 2, 3, MPEG-4 AAC-LC, MPEG-4 HE-AAC, MPEG-4 BSAC, LPCM, FLAC, Vorbis
* Audio pass-through: DTS, DTS-HD HR, DTS-HD MA, Dolby Digital, Dolby Digital Plus, Dolby True HD
* Other formats: ISO, IFO navigation, Rich Object Based Interactive Graphics, AVCHD navigation, Blu-ray ready (requires addition of compatible BD-ROM and at least 1GB USB stick or internal HDD)
* Photo Formats supported: JPEG, BMP, PNG, GIF
* Subtitle formats supported: SRT, MicroDVD SUB, SSA, SUB/IDX

(via GeekTonic)

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