Syabas Launches Popcorn Hour A-300
by Ganesh T S on October 5, 2011 8:08 PM EST- Posted in
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Syabas launched the next generation member of their immensely popular Popcorn Hour A-series today.
The previous version were all based on Sigma's chipsets, and the A-300 is no different. It uses the SMP 8647 SoC with a 800 MHz MIPS CPU at the core. We finally get true GbE (part of the core SoC package) in a media streamer. The A-300 has an aluminium body and is also fanless, ensuring quiet operation. Best of all, Sigma is finally supporting Real Media decode in the 8647, and A-300 now gets the same codec compatibility as the countless other Realtek based media streamers. Like every other media streamer today, we also have an apps market for premium video services. Note that we still don't get HDMI 1.4 or 3D Blu-ray ISO because the SMP 8647 doesn't support it.
The A-300 is expected to ship on Oct 18th, 2011. Head on over to the source link for more information and videos of the UI in action.
Source: Networked Media Tank Forum
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RDM_Steve - Friday, October 7, 2011 - link
Can you get content from Netflix, Amazon or Blockbuster to stream to this new version? Really that is the only thing keeping me from grabbing one of these units to test, review and love like a child of my own.Steven
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Arbie - Monday, October 10, 2011 - link
I was an early purchaser of the Popcorn Hour C-200, and am VERY disappointed in the $400 total purchase. Popcorn's support and follow-through are terrible.Among many, many problems are some basic and totally idiotic human interface decisions - which never get fixed. I could list half a dozen but the worst is this: the device cannot play more than one folder of content at a time.
==> I rip all my audio CDs to FLAC format. Each CD is in one folder.
==> The C-200 *CANNOT* play more than one of these without stopping. Then I have to tell it to play the next CD!!!
Years of requests to fix this one issue have fallen on deaf ears. So I don't use the C-200. I use my 10-year old CD changer instead.
Another issue - I bought all the accessories including wifi, but could never get this "Network Media Tank" to function as such. The "best" I achieved was interfering with my existing home network to such a degree that it too nothing at all could communicate.
The Popcorn Hour developers are lost in a fog of esoteric media streaming. They have no appreciation for basics, and no customer support.
My next box WON'T be from Popcorn.