Product Description

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.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #41975 in Consumer Electronics
• Brand: Popcorn Hour
• Model: A-110 HD
• Released on: 2009-02-24

Features

• 1080P FULL HD MEDIA PLAYER
• WILL TAKE ANY STANDARD SATA HARD DRIVE
• USB HOST FUNCTION CAN TAKE EXTERNAL HARD DRIVE
• NETWORK CONNECTION AVAILABLE
• HDMI CONNECTION

Manufacturer's Description
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.

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 has been updated 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 device have also been reconfigured, with a USB port moved to the rear panel, optical S/PDIF replacing the co-axial S/PDIF and a hardware reset button to allow for easier use of the device.

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.

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Customer Reviews

Excellent... but not without niggles
I've had one of these for three months, and I absolutely love it. It's allowed me to back-up nearly all of my 690-disc DVD collection onto four hard drives and send my discs into storage. Anyone with needs similar to mine should look no further.

BUT, bear the following in mind:

1. The machine is not a typical 'white good'. You can't just plug it in, and "go". It'll take a couple of hours to set up. If you don't have patience for technology, give this a miss... or maybe get a more patient friend to set it up for you!

2. Firmware updates are being released all the time, but it's still a little buggy - of my 303 movie rips, seven of them don't work. And for no apparent reason, either. But, looking on the bright side, 296 of them *do* work. And they work great.


Anyone wanting 'the official line' should check out the official forum:

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I hope you enjoy yours as much as I enjoy mine.



DH.

Good when it works but very unreliable
Really good for storing movies. Adequate for music and photos. Don't bother with the online media feeds - they aren't very good.

When it works, it is great. Very good picture over HDMI. Very quiet, even with the optional hard disk installed.

The reliability of the device is suspect. Mine lasted 9 months before dying. From reading the Popcorn support sites, many other people also experienced the 'green screen of death'.

If they can sort out the reliability issues, 4 stars, but for now just 2 stars.

Does what it says on the tin.
I have had a few media players in the past and all have had some bad points. But this one I have no complaints at all with. It plays a very wide range of formats from avi, mp4, mkv,iso,img, h264, divx etc the list goes on. Both video and audio are supported very well. So are some internet streaming services just too much to put in a review.

This unit does not have wifi but there is a USB Wifi dongle available also specifically for the A110 HD. Plays from PC's, Media Servers, or Straight from a UPnp NAS drive.

Great product far outweighs the rest.