MEDIA PLAYER for Films and Music....Check it out it's AWESOME !!!!!!!
Posted by: Musicman21 on 20 December 2008
Just bought myself a new "TOY" a Media Player for watching "HD" Movies and listening to Music Downloads through my NAIM 52/SC/250/Sony Plasma system :
This Little Baby is called the Popcorn Hour A-110 Networked "HD" Media Tank.
The Popcorn Hour A-110 is a enhanced version of the popular A-100 model. It adds support for 2.5"/3.5" SATA HDD and USB Slave functionality to improve connectivity and transfer rates.
HDMI is to the 1.3a spec, allowing full support of HD Audio pass-through for DTS HD-HR, DTS HD-MA, Dolby Digital Plus and Dolby TrueHD. The ports on the new version have also been reconfigured, with a USB port moved to the rear panel, optical S/PDIF replacing the co-axial S/PDIF.
The Popcorn Hour A-110 allows you to pull in digital video, audio and photos from various sources for your enjoyment on your HDTV or Home Theater setup.
You can stream or playback your digital media content from a variety of sources, such as your PC, NAS, digital camera, USB mass storage devices (Flash drive, HDD, DVD drive) , internal SATA HDD* and even directly from the Internet via the Media Service Portal.
It also serves as a NAS and a BitTorrent peer-to-peer downloader** to eliminate the need to switch on a PC or other device for this purpose.
The Popcorn Hour A-110 supports the latest high bitrate video formats (MPEG2 MP@HL, H.264 HP@L4.1, VC-1 AP@L3 in TS of at least 40Mbps) to give you up to 1080p high-definition videos.
In recognition of advances in Internet TV, the A-110 supports peer-to-peer Internet TV streaming technology from SayaTV, as well as popular unicast internet TV such as YouTube, Revision 3 and Vuze via the Media Service Portal.
The A-110 firmware is upgradeable to support future media containers, codecs and features
Really is a awesome bit of kit I have fitted mine with an internal 1 TB of (HDD) HARD DRIVE storage if you need more just add another external 1/2/3 TB or "MORE" of HARD DRIVE through the USB Slave port on the rear of the Popcorn.............all your DVD'S and Music File's stored in a compact medium !
CHECK THE A110 OUT... SOUND AND PICTURE(1080p) IS OUT OF THIS WORLD A REAL GIFT NOTHING TO TOUCH IT ! ANYONE ELSE OUT THERE GOT ONE ????
This Little Baby is called the Popcorn Hour A-110 Networked "HD" Media Tank.
The Popcorn Hour A-110 is a enhanced version of the popular A-100 model. It adds support for 2.5"/3.5" SATA HDD and USB Slave functionality to improve connectivity and transfer rates.
HDMI is to the 1.3a spec, allowing full support of HD Audio pass-through for DTS HD-HR, DTS HD-MA, Dolby Digital Plus and Dolby TrueHD. The ports on the new version have also been reconfigured, with a USB port moved to the rear panel, optical S/PDIF replacing the co-axial S/PDIF.
The Popcorn Hour A-110 allows you to pull in digital video, audio and photos from various sources for your enjoyment on your HDTV or Home Theater setup.
You can stream or playback your digital media content from a variety of sources, such as your PC, NAS, digital camera, USB mass storage devices (Flash drive, HDD, DVD drive) , internal SATA HDD* and even directly from the Internet via the Media Service Portal.
It also serves as a NAS and a BitTorrent peer-to-peer downloader** to eliminate the need to switch on a PC or other device for this purpose.
The Popcorn Hour A-110 supports the latest high bitrate video formats (MPEG2 MP@HL, H.264 HP@L4.1, VC-1 AP@L3 in TS of at least 40Mbps) to give you up to 1080p high-definition videos.
In recognition of advances in Internet TV, the A-110 supports peer-to-peer Internet TV streaming technology from SayaTV, as well as popular unicast internet TV such as YouTube, Revision 3 and Vuze via the Media Service Portal.
The A-110 firmware is upgradeable to support future media containers, codecs and features
Really is a awesome bit of kit I have fitted mine with an internal 1 TB of (HDD) HARD DRIVE storage if you need more just add another external 1/2/3 TB or "MORE" of HARD DRIVE through the USB Slave port on the rear of the Popcorn.............all your DVD'S and Music File's stored in a compact medium !
CHECK THE A110 OUT... SOUND AND PICTURE(1080p) IS OUT OF THIS WORLD A REAL GIFT NOTHING TO TOUCH IT ! ANYONE ELSE OUT THERE GOT ONE ????
Hi Dave
If you download Music or Movies from the internet as many people do.. the Popcornhour Media player comes into it's own.
I have around 3000 + Music Files on my Laptop playback through the speakers on my laptop as you can imagine is limited by the small speakers..you download all the music files from your laptop or PC onto the HDD Hard Drive on the Popcorn up to 1 terabyte of internal hard drive you can then plug the unit directly into the back of your Preamp in my case a Naim NAC52 via a Naim DIN to 2 RCA and play all this music through your main system...GREAT !
The sound quality is limited only by the quality of the downloads you can get on MP4 etc most of mine are 320 kbps or 192 kbps not up to my CDX/XPS or Linn Record deck but I would not expect that as these represent 8k + of replay equipment !
Quality is very "listenable" and so much choice of music downloads from the internet especially as you can download individual tracks no need to buy an entire album....Sky's the Limit !
You can make compilations of music of your own choice compilations you could never buy in a shop......
As for High Definition Movies it really is "stunning" I was watching The Dark Knight last night 1080p Picture DTS sound better than Blue Ray (IMO) !!!!!!!!!!!
HAPPY CHRISTMAS
If you download Music or Movies from the internet as many people do.. the Popcornhour Media player comes into it's own.
I have around 3000 + Music Files on my Laptop playback through the speakers on my laptop as you can imagine is limited by the small speakers..you download all the music files from your laptop or PC onto the HDD Hard Drive on the Popcorn up to 1 terabyte of internal hard drive you can then plug the unit directly into the back of your Preamp in my case a Naim NAC52 via a Naim DIN to 2 RCA and play all this music through your main system...GREAT !
The sound quality is limited only by the quality of the downloads you can get on MP4 etc most of mine are 320 kbps or 192 kbps not up to my CDX/XPS or Linn Record deck but I would not expect that as these represent 8k + of replay equipment !
Quality is very "listenable" and so much choice of music downloads from the internet especially as you can download individual tracks no need to buy an entire album....Sky's the Limit !
You can make compilations of music of your own choice compilations you could never buy in a shop......
As for High Definition Movies it really is "stunning" I was watching The Dark Knight last night 1080p Picture DTS sound better than Blue Ray (IMO) !!!!!!!!!!!
HAPPY CHRISTMAS