Popcorn Hour A-110 HD Networked Media Tank

The Integrated Home Entertainment Product

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Description:
The Popcorn Hour A-110 HD Networked Media Tank was voted "Best Integrated Home Entertainment Product" at this year's CES in Las Vegas and awarded 9.1/10 and the prestigious editor's choice award by cnet.co.uk. Popcorn Hour A-110 allows you to pull in digital video, audio and photos from various sources for playback on your HDTV or home cinema setup. You can stream or playback content from a variety of sources, such as; your PC, network attached storage, digital camera, USB mass storage devices (Flash drive, HDD, DVD drive), internal hard disk and even directly from the internet.

The Popcorn Hour's HDMI output allows you to play movies in stunning 1080p High Definition and will output HD audio via optical digital output giving you a genuine home cinema experience.

The Popcorn Hour A-110 supports the latest high definition video formats and is firmware upgradeable, allowing it to be upgraded to support additional formats as they emerge. We challenge you to find a format it can't handle! The A-110 also supports peer-to-peer internet TV streaming technology from SayaTV, as well as popular internet video sites such as YouTube.

The Popcorn Hour has a simple to use onscreen interface allowing you to browse and search through your content via the full-featured remote control.

Features
• 1080p HDMI HD video (HDMI v1.3a)
• Optical digital audio output (S/PDIF)
• Supports internal SATA HDD
• NAS server
• BitTorrent downloader
• Ethernet connection
• WiFi via optional adapter WN-100 (MSRP £39.99)

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

Video codecs:
XVID SD/HD
MPEG-1
MPEG-2 : PM[at]LH
MPEG-4.2 : PSA[at]5L, 720p, 1-point GMC
WMV9 : PM[at]LH
H.264 : PB[at]3L, PM[at]0.4L, PH[at]0.4L, PH[at]1.4L
VC-1 : PM[at]LH, PA[at]3L

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

Audio codecs:
Dolby Digital
DTS
WMA, WMA Pro
AAC
MP1, MP2, MP3
LPCM
FLAC
Vorbis

Audio pass through : DTS, Dolby Digital, DTS-HD MA, DTS-HD HR, Dolby True HD, Dolby Digital Plus
Photo formats : JPEG, BMP, PNG, GIF
Other formats: ISO, IFO
Subtitle formats : SRT, SMI, SUB, SSA

Memory
256MB DDR SDRAM, 32MB Flash

Audio/Video outputs
HDMI v1.3a (up to 1080p)
Component Video (up to 1080p)
S-Video
Composite Video
Stereo Analog Audio
S/PDIF Optical Digital Audio

Power
12V DC, 3A

Dimensions: Width 10.5"(270mm) x Depth 5.25" (132mm) x Height 1.25" (32mm)

Weight: 2.2 lbs (1Kg)

Interface
1x USB 2.0 slave
2x USB 2.0 host (placed at front and back panel each)
SATA
Hardware Reset Button

Network
Ethernet 10/100

Connectivity
Bonjour
UPnP SSDP
UPnP AV
Windows Media Connect
Windows Media Player NSS
SMB
NFS
HTTP servers: myiHome, WizD, SwissCenter, MSP Portal, Llink, GB-PVR
BitTorrent P2P
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, Motorz

Audio : Jamendo, iPodcast, BBC Podcast, Indiefeed, CNN News, ABC News

Photos : Flickr, Picasaweb, Pikeo, 23, Photobucket, SmugMug

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 : Radiobox, Live365 Radio

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