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Connectivity Bonjour UPnP SSDP UPnP AV Windows Media Connect Windows Media Player NSS Samba NFS Media servers: myiHome, myiHomeLite, myiHomeMS (UPnP), MSP Portal Third party media servers: WizD, SwissCenter, Llink, GB-PVR BitTorrent P2P Usenet downloader NAS access: SMB, NFS, FTP Web services Video: 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 Audio: Jamendo, iPodcast, BBC Podcast, Indiefeed, CNN News, ABC News Photo: Flickr Photo, Picasaweb Photo, Pikeo, 23 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: Radio box, Live365 Radio Media files supported 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 decoder: 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
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9 of 9 people found the following review helpful
I have had one of these for a number of months with no major problems.
I bought the bare player and fitted a 500GB HDD and bluray drive myself.
It is an excellent player although it is probably one of the most expensive on the market.
The only problem I had was that some of my avi files had no sound but a search of the NMT forum soon found an answer to the problem (it was to do with the file and was easily rectified).
I use it for my video backups and have streamed AVI and MKV files through it easily. I mainly use divx format and H264, I have to say I do not have any mov files so I cannot comment on what was mentioned by the other reviewer.
I also have had no problems playing bluray disks on it, so far. I believe with the Avatar bluray they had changed something in the protection but I only ordered a copy so I will need to check this.
So basically for me it does everything I want it to do and works like a charm even if it is a bit expensive.
I bought the bare player and fitted a 500GB HDD and bluray drive myself.
It is an excellent player although it is probably one of the most expensive on the market.
The only problem I had was that some of my avi files had no sound but a search of the NMT forum soon found an answer to the problem (it was to do with the file and was easily rectified).
I use it for my video backups and have streamed AVI and MKV files through it easily. I mainly use divx format and H264, I have to say I do not have any mov files so I cannot comment on what was mentioned by the other reviewer.
I also have had no problems playing bluray disks on it, so far. I believe with the Avatar bluray they had changed something in the protection but I only ordered a copy so I will need to check this.
So basically for me it does everything I want it to do and works like a charm even if it is a bit expensive.
5 of 5 people found the following review helpful
I upgraded to C200 from A100 and then HDX100. This is a nice machine. The menus are a lot faster.
It plays all well-encoded dvd, avi , mkv etc. no problems.
The LCD Display is hard to read from most angles though.
The new YouTube app is very nice.
It can also download from usenet and torrents - if thats your thing.
The interface is basic but a new offical one will be released in the next few months,
and there are plenty of 3rd party ones available for free.
At the price range it is very close to a HTPC so you will have to consider a lot of factors:
size
looks
price
convenience
etc.
If you just want a pure streamer then maybe the A200 is better. If you want to put HDD in it, and maybe BD drive. then go for the C200. Only downside is the region selection is clunky if you have discs from different regions.
There is good community support for it too if you search on the web.
To address some points in some earlier negative reviews:
Items arriving DOA is unfortunately a sad fact of life in the electronics market, As long as the percentage is low and it is addressed in a timely fashion, As far as I know it is not common.
Re "play everything and anything". I could not find that quoted phrase on their site, and its obviously an impossible claim to live up to if they ever used it.
They do say 'Play virtually any digital media files on your TV.'
All hardware players are limited by what is on the chip/firmware. The chip programming will usually play video that has been created according to published specification.
The Popcorn plays almost everything for me. But it cant complete with a mini-PC (HTPC).
Certainly playing a movie file from a Camera would be a gamble! (I too have Panasonic Lumix, but would have been surprised if it did play without re-encoding them to a standard format)
It plays all well-encoded dvd, avi , mkv etc. no problems.
The LCD Display is hard to read from most angles though.
The new YouTube app is very nice.
It can also download from usenet and torrents - if thats your thing.
The interface is basic but a new offical one will be released in the next few months,
and there are plenty of 3rd party ones available for free.
At the price range it is very close to a HTPC so you will have to consider a lot of factors:
size
looks
price
convenience
etc.
If you just want a pure streamer then maybe the A200 is better. If you want to put HDD in it, and maybe BD drive. then go for the C200. Only downside is the region selection is clunky if you have discs from different regions.
There is good community support for it too if you search on the web.
To address some points in some earlier negative reviews:
Items arriving DOA is unfortunately a sad fact of life in the electronics market, As long as the percentage is low and it is addressed in a timely fashion, As far as I know it is not common.
Re "play everything and anything". I could not find that quoted phrase on their site, and its obviously an impossible claim to live up to if they ever used it.
They do say 'Play virtually any digital media files on your TV.'
All hardware players are limited by what is on the chip/firmware. The chip programming will usually play video that has been created according to published specification.
The Popcorn plays almost everything for me. But it cant complete with a mini-PC (HTPC).
Certainly playing a movie file from a Camera would be a gamble! (I too have Panasonic Lumix, but would have been surprised if it did play without re-encoding them to a standard format)
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
We have a Popcorn hour, and have owned one for the last, oh I don't know but we bought one when they came out. And it is great. Plays everything, and now (this is the reason I wrote this review) it has the iPlayer as well. This is one of the best bits of tech we own, and we are not techie at all. Ours has a 500 GB little hard drive and a 1 TB big one, though we have the internet dongle as well so often use the connection to the PC without realizing it. And it works. Plays everything we throw at it (and the wife throws some weird stuff at it, mainly Russian TV). So I do not understand the detractors, for us it has been an ACE piece of kit. AND because of the RF remote it is kept underneath a chest of drawers, so well out of sight. This is more important to us than the aerial!
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Failed within 12 hours.
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