Popcorn Hour A-200 Networked Media Tank

Popcorn Hour A-200 Networked Media Tank

Award winning home entertainment.

The Digital Streamer That Is More Advanced

The Popcorn Hour A-200 is the all new compact size media streamer. With it you can watch all of your digital movies, music, photos and more on your TV or home cinema system. Combining the beautifully compact sizing of the original Popcorn Hour A-100 with the high-end technical abilities of the C-200, the A-200 is the latest easy to use media tank from Popcorn. With futuristic styling, the A-200 will look fantastic in your home.

With the Popcorn Hour you can stream or playback digital media content from a huge variety of sources such as your PC, network-attached storage, digital camera or USB storage (Flash drive, HDD, DVD drive). Popcorn Hour also makes it easy to download and stream content directly from popular Internet sites like Videocast, CNET TV, CBS/CNN channels and dozens of other online content sites*.

Expand Your Possibilities

The A-200 can be equipped with a 3.5" Hard Drive. This allows you to store as much of your own entertainment as possible. Adding a HDD to the Popcorn Hour's standard expansion slot opens up a host of additional features and options:

• Create a central library of all your movies and video files, ready to play on your TV at any time.
• Easily share media with friends and family-with a hard drive the Popcorn Hour can act as a file server to share files over the local area network.
• Movies when you want. Whether you feel like relaxing with a rom-com or going all-out with an action film, the movies are there straight away. No need for any other gadgets or computers.

Digital Entertainment Your Way

The A-200 is so easy to use. With a specially created user interface you can Glide through the menus with ease. The clear icons link you to the entertainment source type and then the choice is yours.

Popcorn Hour's interface uses familiar HTML features and navigation prompts, so first-time users can quickly get up to speed on even the most advanced features.

Picking your favourite music is easy. Just play it through your home TV or music system.

With customisable options you can make the A-200 all yours. Have a look online and get some great backgrounds and display styles.

Popcor Hour A-200 comes with a remote control. This fully featured remote has all the functionality you would expect from a media remote control. It supports playback modes, such as play/pause and trickmodes, as well as simultaneous display of images and playback of audio tracks.

Connect

You can use the Popcorn Hour A-200 in a range of ways. You can use it by itself on your home network, with a hard drive or memory card, or go online to take advantage of Internet entertainment. It can connect to the internet and your home network by LAN cable, or with a WiFi dongle.

Memory

The A-200 comes set-up for use on your home network and internet. If you want some hard drive storage capacity head to the A-200 500GB page.

Features

• Organize your media library with the myiHome Media Server streaming video utility.
• Play the majority of digital media files on your TV. (Refer to the list of supported codecs below)
• Supports the most advanced high-def video and audio standards, including MKV HD and Dolby
• Newer and faster processor for increased performance in all areas

The Popcorn Hour A-200 has support for a huge range of Media Files

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

Photo Formats

• JPEG
• BMP
• PNG
• GIF

Subtitle Formats

• SRT
• MicroDVD SUB
• SSA
• SUB/IDX

*Note. Due to production time, a few minor features are missing from the above list. FLAC Audio Codec, Auto Framerate, and Audio CD Playback from SATA Loader. These will be enabled through Firmware updates.

It is always advisable to check for Firmware updates when you have received your new Popcorn Hour Media Tank.

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