The Popcorn Hour A-110 was a big hit with geeks around the world for its almost unrivalled ability to handle media. Unfortunately it was not all perfect, the unit was a bit slow to navigate, it transferring files to it was extremely slow due to the 100Mb Ethernet and various other little annoyances. Week now it seems most of these issues will hopefully be ironed out with the release of the Popcorn Hour C200. Some of the key improvements that are worth noticing are: A more powerful SMP8643 Sigma Chip compared to the A-110’s SMP8635. This should improve a lot of the issues the A-110 had. Gigabit Ethernet – This will make a huge difference if you are running a gigabit network. Possibly support for DVD and Blu-Ray. The removable tray at the front of the player apparently will support a DVD drive or Blu-Ray Drive It is significantly bigger than the A-110. Obviously you will also get all the usual great features of a Network Media Tank including UPnP, Samba, NFS, BitTorrent, Usenet. Then web services such as YouTube, Vuze, and Revision 3 and finally the ability to play almost any media file you throw at it include 1080p videos. Full specification after the jump.                                           The above image is from HomeTheatre.co.il and shows the C200 with a Blu-Ray Drive. Specification Connectivity 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: WizD, SwissCenter, Llink, GB-PVR BitTorrent P2P Usenet downloader NAS access: SMB, NFS, FTP Web services Video: YouTube, Vuze, Revision 3, Videocast, CNET TV, Mediafly, Veoh, Mevio, Bliptv, Break Podcast, CBS Evening News, CNN Anderson Cooper 360 Daily, CNN The Larry King Podcast, NBC Today Show, The CNN Daily, CNN In Case You Missed It, NBC Nightly News, NBC Meet The Press, CBS Face the Nation, Podfinder UK Audio: Jamendo, iPodcast, BBC Podcast, Indiefeed, CNN News, ABC News Photo: Flickr Photo, Picasaweb Photo, Pikeo, 23 RSS feed: Yahoo! Weather, NMT Forum, Bloglines, Cinecast, MSNBC News, Traffice Condition, Yahoo! Traffic Alerts, Yahoo! News, Weather Bug Peer-to-peer TV: SayaTV Internet Radio: Radio box, Live365 Radio Media files supported 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 decoder: 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 decoder: 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: JPEG, BMP, PNG, GIF Subtitle formats: SRT, MicroDVD SUB, SSA, SUB/IDX DRM Cardea DRM (WMDRM-ND) Janus DRM (WMDRM-PD) Chipset Sigma Designs SMP8643, 667MHz CPU with floating point coprocessor. Memory 512MB DDR2 DRAM, 256MB NAND Flash Audio/Video 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 Other Interface 192×64 dots white text on blue background LCD display, with software adjustable brightness and power off Power button with standby, reset and full power down 2x USB 2.0 host at the front 2x USB 2.0 host at the 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 Infra-Red Remote Control port (Infra-Red Remote Control optional) Network Ethernet 10/100/1000 miniPCI MII interface for 11n WiFi card (optional) Power 100~240V AC, 50~60 Hz, max 2.5A typical: 13 W (no additional device installed/attached) maximum: 70 W Dimension Width x Depth x Height : 425mm x 290mm x 80mm (16.73" x 11.42" x 3.14") Weight 3.7kg (8.3 lbs) Package Content Popcorn Hour C-200 (HDD not included) IEC 60320 C13 power cord 1.5M length HDMI cable RF Remote Control with 2 "AAA" batteries Quick start guide Post from: Mighty Gadget - Gadget and Technology Blog Popcorn Hour C200 Network Media Tank Announced Tags: Popcorn Hour , Popcorn Hour A-110 , Popcorn Hour C200 Related posts No related posts.

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