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Popcorn Hour A-110 Today we get our grubby little hands on the Media Player coined “Networked Media Tank”; this is the Popcorn Hour A-110. While its name recognition is not that of Apple, it does imply that it's time to sit and enjoy some theater.
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When it comes to watching HD Video on your Plasma / LCD Tele, there is a plethora choices. You can use your Cable / FiOS / DirecTV box, TiVO, HTPC, AppleTV as well as a several Media Players that are currently out there.
While we won't tell you we are a high end Media based site, we have done our share of dabbling with the gear. Most of us, in one way, shape or form, have built an HTPC or used a Media Player, be it Windows based as Scott prefers, or Linux based as I tend to lean towards. No matter the solution, there is always a catch, something that just doesn't work right or play properly, could we be starting an era where things just work? The A-110 is a Media Player that's compact, silent and plays damn near everything but the kitchen sink, lets see if it fits the bill...
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The packaging of the PCH A-110 is done very nicely. Opening the box I was expecting something a little, well, more substantial, this thing is barely larger then a 3.5” USB Disk Enclosure.
Included with the PCH A-110 is a very nice shielded HDMI 1.3a compliant cable, a USB Slave cable, mounting screws for a 2.5” or 3.5” internal SATA drive, a remote and batteries for said remote.
Let's take a look at what this thing can do...
Connectivity
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Bonjour
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UPnP SSDP
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UPnP AV
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Windows Media Connect
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Windows Media Player NSS
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SMB / CIFS / NFS
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HTTP servers: , , , MSP Portal, ,
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Bit Torrent P2P
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NAS access : SMB, NFS, FTP
WebServices
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Video : YouTube, Veoh, Videocast, DLTV, Cranky Geeks, Bliptv, PodfinderUK, Vuze, Break Podcast, Revision 3, CNN The Larry King Podcast, CNN Anderson Cooper 360, The CNN Daily, CNN In Case You Missed It , NBC Meet The Press, NBC Today, CBS Face the Nation, NBC Nightly News, Mevio
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Audio : Live365 Radio, iPodcast, Radiobox, ABC News, BBC Podcast, CNN News , Indiefeed, Jamendo
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Photo : Flickr, Picasaweb
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RSS feed : Bloglines, Yahoo! Weather, Yahoo Traffic Alerts, Traffic Condition, Cinecast, Yahoo! News, MSNBC News
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Peer-to-peer TV : SayaTV
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Internet Radio : Shoutcast
MediaFiles Supported
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MPEG1/2/4 Elementary (M1V, M2V, M4V)
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MPEG1/2 PS (M2P, MPG)
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MPEG2 Transport Stream (TS, TP, TRP, M2T, M2TS, MTS)
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VOB
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AVI, ASF, WMV
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Matroska (MKV)
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MOV (H.264), MP4, RMP4
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XVID SD/HD
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MPEG-1
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MPEG-2
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MPEG-4.2
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WMV9
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H.264
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BP@L3
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VC-1
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Dolby Digital
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DTS
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WMA, WMA Pro
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AAC
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MP1, MP2, MP3
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LPCM
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FLAC
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Vorbis
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Audio pass through : DTS, Dolby Digital, DTS-HD MA, DTS-HD HR, Dolby True HD, Dolby Digital Plus
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