Digital Home Thoughts: Yet Another Video Streaming Player?

"Popcorn Hour A-100 allows you to pull in digital video, audio and photos from various sources for your enjoyment on your HDTV or Home Theater setup. You can stream or playback your digital media content from a variety of sources, such as your PC, NAS, digital camera, USB mass storage devices (Flash drive, HDD, DVD drive), internal HDD and even directly from the Internet via the Media Service Portal. It also serves as a NAS and a BitTorrent peer-to-peer downloader to eliminate the need to switch on a PC or other device for this purpose. The Popcorn Hour A-100 supports the latest high bitrate video formats (MPEG2 MP@HL, H.264 [email protected], VC-1 AP@L3 in TS of at least 40Mbps) to give you up to 1080p high-definition videos."

It is quite suprising to me that this little device doesn't support DVI. While most of my devices support HDMI now, I wonder how many other people have that ability and instead still have older devices that only do DVI. Also, I was thinking that for $180, this is pretty good until I realized that the hard drive is not included. That still doesn't make it a bad deal but it is just something to be aware of. Having said that, this little box does seem to support a lot of functionality. But given the big players in the market, I wonder if it will survive. I do have to say though that the name of the device is pretty amusing.