Popcorn Hour A-100

Posted by Marzouq

July 1, 2008

I placed an order for the Popcorn Hour after doing some research about it, seemed like a very interesting and intuitive product. Streams all kinds of media to the TV through the network, and you can install a hard drive in it you want. The difficult part is that this product is on back order, I placed my order a while back and forgot about it.

After a month and half I come back from work to find this box in my room, only to rip it open to find that its the Popcorn Hour A-100. It is very small, compact, and has all the outputs for a any type of TV, and the best part is that it plays 1080P videos. It can play from an internal hard drive, USB attached drive, a network storage, and media across a network. I have some testing to do on it, I have some very heavy 1080P movies to test on it, and see its capabilities from there I can tell if its really all its cracked up to be.

Electronics

Please leave a comment or subscribe to the feed.

Comments

Comment by N. on July 1, 2008 @ 8:35 am

Nice! Mabrouk, tell us how it performs.

Comment by Shaymaa on July 1, 2008 @ 8:40 am

Yes please, performance test wanted… and enjoy it - mabrooks (as in congrats, LOL)!

Comment by Mishary on July 1, 2008 @ 8:45 am

great! i was looking for it.. does it support youtube? i mean can i watch youtube movies with it?

Comment by Shaymaa on July 1, 2008 @ 8:52 am

Yes please, performance report wanted! and congrats, enjoy it. It looks good.

Comment by randomq80ya on July 1, 2008 @ 11:04 am

wow looks really good does it record?

Comment by Abidulla on July 1, 2008 @ 11:41 am

Hi,

In popcorn hour A-100, How do i connect to my receiver as i don’t see Coaxial/Digital on the backside.

Would appreciate if you can email me on abidulla@gmail.com

Thanx.
Mohamed Abidulla
Mobile: 00965-7212434
Kuwait

Comment by Ahmad on July 1, 2008 @ 11:58 am

A friend of mine has the Mvix box and he swears by it. I also heard that the Tvix box is also good!

Comment by Abidulla on July 1, 2008 @ 1:01 pm

Can u please give me the link to user Manual.

Comment by sabah on July 1, 2008 @ 1:32 pm

Looks pretty sleek, let us know how it goes and how much it set you back.

I have the MVIX and that’s also pretty neat. Only problem is that my version doesn’t have support an external USB drive so I have to rely on the one inside and transfer all my files through USB (no wireless).

Comment by n on July 1, 2008 @ 3:31 pm

waiting on ur review marzouq cuz i have the netgear eva8000 hd, but Video playback suddenly stops during payback many users have the same issue i hope the new firmware coming out this month would fix the problem

Comment by K.theKuwaiti on July 1, 2008 @ 10:15 pm