Friday, October 12, 2007
PopCorn Hour EM8634 Networked Media Tank Leaked
Posted by Jeremy Charette in "HARDWARE" @ 03:00 PM
"Networked Media Tank (NMT) is a state of the art integrated digital entertainment system that allows you to watch, store, and share digital content on your home network. With a built-in Digital Media Player, the NMT allows for seamless integration between your digital media and your entertainment system. An optional hard disk drive also gives the end user the ability to download content from the Internet and store it in the NMT to watch at their leisure."
The boys over at MPC Club have found some info on an upcoming media player from Popcorn Hour. Spec-wise, looks interesting. BitTorrent, 1080p support, optional NAS...but why not get an Xbox 360? Or one of the upcoming Media Center Extenders? Or an Apple TV? This thing isn't likely to support DRM'd content, so your entertainment choices are going to be limited at best. Even with BitTorrent, how are you supposed to find the content you want to download? Will it support every permutation of Divx, xVid, and h.264 out there? Will it work seamlessly with your networked PCs? Unknown, but unlikely.
I say, avoid at all costs.
The boys over at MPC Club have found some info on an upcoming media player from Popcorn Hour. Spec-wise, looks interesting. BitTorrent, 1080p support, optional NAS...but why not get an Xbox 360? Or one of the upcoming Media Center Extenders? Or an Apple TV? This thing isn't likely to support DRM'd content, so your entertainment choices are going to be limited at best. Even with BitTorrent, how are you supposed to find the content you want to download? Will it support every permutation of Divx, xVid, and h.264 out there? Will it work seamlessly with your networked PCs? Unknown, but unlikely.
I say, avoid at all costs.
