Popcorn Hour C-200 Media Player With Blu-ray Playback
Posted: Wed Jun 17, 2009 10:30 amSyabas has unveiled their new Popcorn Hour C-200 network media player. The C-200 includes many of the same features as the A-110. However, it also includes a front loading hard drive drive bay and the ability to add a Blu-ray drive for Blu-ray playback. The C-200 is expected to ship in July for $299.
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Syabas, a leading provider of over-the-top settop software and hardware and makers of the award winning Popcorn Hour A-110, today announced the Popcorn C-200, a next-generation Internet settop box that streams digital content from the Internet or its internal hard drive to your television set and home stereo.¹ Unlike competing Internet settop boxes that support a limited number of Internet audio and video file types, the C-200 supports more than 30, including MPEG 1, 2, 4, AVI, H.264, Xvid, MKV, Windows Media and others.
“In today’s tough economic times, there are people facing the decision to either cancel their cable subscription or their Internet connection to make ends meet,” said Syabas COO, Alex Limberis. “With a C-200, people can experience the best of both worlds, as a lot of compelling content is freely available on the Internet. Today, consumers want to watch programs when they want them, not when a network or cable company tells them it’s okay.”
Like its predecessor, the Popcorn Hour A-110, the C-200 streams news and entertainment content from a number video partner sites such as YouTube, Vuze, Revision 3, CNET TV, Veoh, Blip.tv, NBC, CBS, CNN and BBC and Internet radio sites, such as Radio box and Live365 Radio. Additionally, the C-200 can stream still image content from Flickr, Pikeo and Picasa.
Additional new features of the C-200 include:
* A redesigned external shell, which helps the unit better integrate into existing entertainment component stacks
* Wireless RF remote control
* An LCD display for quickly searching, streaming and/or downloading content, which is useful when listening to music without having the TV on
* A gigabit Ethernet connection for lightning-fast file transfers
* A front-loading drive bay that can be used to install a hard drive for storing and playing back downloaded content
* The ability to add a Blu-ray drive with full support for Blu-ray navigation and Blu-ray Live
* AVCHD format and navigation for displaying home video content from AVC format HD cameras
The C-200 includes component and HDMI out for high definition playback on today’s HDTVs. And for audio purists, the device features an optical line out, for playing back content that’s been encoded in Dolby Digital or DTS. The box also plays Wave, AAC and MP3 audio files, among others.