Popcorn Hour A-100 allows you to pull in digital video, audio & photos from various sources for your enjoyment on your HDTV or Home Theater setup.
You can stream or playback 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 HDD*
- directly from the Internet via the Media Service Portal.
It also serves as a NAS and a BitTorrent peer-to-peer downloader (An internal HDD is required for these functions) to eliminate the need to switch on a PC or other device for this purpose.
The Popcorn Hour A-100 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-100 supports peer-to-peer Internet TV streaming technology from SayaTV, as well as popular unicast internet TV such as YouTube, Google Video and Metacafe via the Media Service Portal. The A-100 firmware is upgradeable to support future media containers, codecs and features.
Popcorn Hour A-100 Specification :[= Show =]
Connectivity
- UPnP SSDP
- Bonjour
- DLNA
- Windows Media Connect
- Windows Media Player NSS
- SMB
- NFS
- BitTorrent P2P
- NAS access : SMB, NFS, FTP
- HTTP servers: myiHome, WizD, SwissCenter, MSP Portal, Llink, GB-PVR
Web services
- Video : YouTube, Metacafe. Veoh, Videocast, DLTV, Cranky Geeks, Bliptv, PodfinderUK, Vuze, Break Podcast
- Photo : Flickr, Picasaweb
- Audio : Live365 Radio, iPodcast, Radiobox, ABC News, BBC Podcast, CNN News
- RSS feed : Bloglines, Yahoo! Weather, Yahoo Traffic Alerts, Traffic Condition, Cinecast, Yahoo! News, MSNBC News.
- Internet Radio : Shoutcast
- Peer-to-peer TV : SayaTV
Media files supported
- Video containers:
- AVI, ASF, WMV
- MPEG1/2/4 Elementary (M1V, M2V, M4V)
- MPEG1/2 PS (M2P, MPG)
- MPEG2 Transport Stream (TS, TP, TRP, M2T, M2TS, MTS)
- VOB
- Matroska (MKV)
- MOV (H.264), MP4, RMP4
- Video codecs:
- XViD SD/HD
- MPEG-1
- MPEG-2
- MPEG-4.2
- ASP@L5, 720p, 1-point GMC
- WMV9
- H.264
- BP@L3
- MP@L4.0
- HP@L4.0
- HP@L4.1
- VC-1
- Audio containers:
- MPEG audio (MP1, MP2, MP3, MPA)
- AAC, M4A
- WAV
- WMA
- Audio codecs:
- MP1, MP2, MP3
- WMA, WMA Pro
- AAC
- LPCM
- FLAC
- Audio pass through : DTS, AC3
- Photo formats : JPEG, BMP, PNG, GIF
- Other formats: ISO, IFO
- Subtitle formats : SRT, SMI, SUB, SSA
DRM
Chipset
Memory
- 256MB DDR SDRAM, 32MB Flash
Audio/Video outputs
- Component Video (up to 1080p)
- HDMI v1.1 (up to 1080p)
- S-Video
- S/PDIF Coax Digital Audio
- Composite Video
- Stereo Analog Audio
Interface
- Parallel ATA
- 2x USB 2.0 host
Network