Re: What is a "PopcornHour"?

Wes Newell <w.newell@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On Mon, 26 May 2008 16:35:40 -0700, David Azose wrote:

Can someone tell me what a PopcornHour device does? I have an XP
MediaCenter Edition (2004 I think) PC. I also have a relatively new
Samsung 40" HDTV. The PC is upstairs and the HDTV is downstairs. There
is a Cat5e receptacle close by the TV from my Linksys router.

I would love to be able to watch movies or TV programs that I have
recorder to my PC's hard drive on my HDTV. Is this possible to do with
the PopcornHour? If so, how is it hooked up? Don't know too much about
this stuff, so any plain English advice would be much appreciated.

Basically a frontend PC with video out running a video app. Been doing the
same thing for years with regular PC's. The price seems reasonable though.
However, you could build a real frontend PC for about the same price.
Maybe less depending on how fancy a case you wanted. Don't need much. Case
and PSU, MB with onboard video, etc., cpu, ram, and remote. All that can
be had for about $100 these days. You can boot over the net, but I use an
old throw away 8GB drive to boot from. One of these days I'm going to
replace that with a cheap flash drive. I also put a DVD drive in mine to
play dvd's even though I rarely ever watch them.

Do you use a video card with HDMI??
.

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