Another day, another PCH review This time, let’s take a look at the new Popcorn Hour A-400. Specifications: Price: USD 249 (available here or here) Connectivity Bonjour, UpnP SSDP, UPnP AV, Windows Media Connect, Windows Media Player NSS, Samba, NFS. BitTorrent P2P, Usenet downloader NAS Access : SMB, NFS, FTP Supported Media File Formats Video containers: MPEG1/2/4 […]
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The next gen PCH was just announced at IFA 2012. The A-400 finally looks to address the lack of Blu-ray 3D support in the Sigma line of players. As usual be on t he lookout for my review after the A-400 is released. The Popcorn Hour A-400 is the first player to utilize Sigma Design’s […]
It has been over 2 years since I reviewed the Popcorn Hour C-200 (boy how time flies), followed shortly afterwards by the Popcorn Hour A-200. The successor to the 200 series (namely the 300 series) has just been released, with the A-300 hitting first (slightly different from the 200 release where the higher model C-200 […]
About a month ago I posted a review on the PopBox v8. Since then several people have asked about the availability in the U.S / Canadian market. Well, today Syabas has officially announced that the v8 can be purchased globally directly from their online store at a price of USD 129.99
It has been over a year since the Popbox 3D was released, and the entire time for better or worse I have had the Popbox 3D in my possession. The main reason why I never did a review when it was first released was because it was an absolutely horrible launch, and I felt is just […]
About 1 month again at IFA 2011 Syabas announced the Popbox V8, their latest entry into the media player market. Syabas was nice enough to send me a review unit, so let’s take a look at what the Popbox V8 has to offer and see if it can have a more successful launch then the […]
This morning at IFA 2011 in Berlin Syabas announced their next player to hit the media player market, the PopBox v8. The v8 is the successor to the Popbox which was released over a year ago. The v8 looks to improve on the built in jukebox that the current Popbox uses, as well as continued […]
With Syabas announcing they are looking to bring a player to the market based on the Intel CE4100 chip, there has been some discussion as to what this means for the future of their Sigma based players (such as the PCH C-200 and PCH A-200 series). Syabas posted a note on the NMT forum discussing […]
Earlier this year I did a review on the Popcorn Hour A-200, and one of my biggest criticisms was the fact that a cheap plastic case and fan was used (where all previous models had used an aluminum case and were fanless). To get around this I ended up modding the A-200 with a 3rd […]
It has been nearly three months since Syabas released the first beta firmware for the PCH C-200. There were some important fixes that were added, such as support for bitstreaming HD Audio in standalone mkv/(m2)ts files, fixed vc-1 mkv playback, etc… It has been a somewhat bumpy ride for Syabas of late, so hopefully release […]