Re: What is a "PopcornHour"?

On 2008-05-29, T Shadow <blackhole@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

My media player is much smaller than even a micro pc. 200watt power supply.
Portable. Silent until I added a fan because the HDD gets kind of warm. It
will read from an external USB DVD, HDD or flash drive but won't write to
them like it's internal drive. Can be connected to pc as a USB HDD. No
visible O/S to hassle with. I rarely play DVDs so just rip them on the PC to
use in the media player.

I've had mine more than a year. A couple of CoDecs and especially the Bit
Torrent is about the only thing new I notice about the PH. Don't have a use
for either.

If by 'a couple of codecs' you mean the ability to play full HD content,
(eg stuff in *.mkv containers) then that's the deal breaker for many
people. Most media players up until now struggled with full HD content
(except full HTPCs) because the CPU/Graphics chips are not up to it.

This is really the main selling point of the PH. Those 'couple of
codecs' are what it's all about, otherwise many players on the market
fit the bill for SD video.

Lordy
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