The Popcorn Hour A-110 is a enhanced version of the popular A-100 model. It adds support for 2.5"/3.5" SATA HDD and USB Slave functionality to improve connectivity and transfer rates. HDMI has been updated to the 1.3a spec, allowing full support of HD Audio pass-through for DTS HD-HR, DTS HD-MA, Dolby Digital Plus and Dolby TrueHD. The ports on the device have also been reconfigured, with a USB port moved to the rear panel, optical S/PDIF replacing the co-axial S/PDIF and a hardware reset button to allow for easier use of the device.


Popcorn Hour A-110 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 SATA 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-110 supports the latest high bitrate video formats (MPEG2 MP@HL, H.264 HP@L4.1, VC-1 AP@L3 in TS of at least 40Mbps) to give you up to 1080p high-definition videos.

In recognition of advances in Internet TV, the A-110 supports peer-to-peer Internet TV streaming technology from SayaTV, as well as popular unicast internet TV such as YouTube, Revision 3 and Vuze via the Media Service Portal.

The A-110 firmware is upgradeable to support future media containers, codecs and features.

* HDD not included
** An internal HDD is required for these functions.

Connectivity

• Bonjour
  
• UPnP SSDP
  
• UPnP AV
  
• Windows Media Connect
  
• Windows Media Player NSS
  
• SMB
  
• NFS
  
• HTTP servers: myiHome, WizD, SwissCenter, MSP Portal, Llink, GB-PVR
  
• BitTorrent P2P
  
• NAS access : SMB, NFS, FTP

Web services

• Video : YouTube, Veoh, Videocast, DLTV, Cranky Geeks, Bliptv, PodfinderUK, Vuze, Break Podcast, Revision 3, CNN The Larry King Podcast, CNN Anderson Cooper 360, The CNN Daily, CNN In Case You Missed It , NBC Meet The Press, NBC Today, CBS Face the Nation, NBC Nightly News, Mevio
  
• Audio : Live365 Radio, iPodcast, Radiobox, ABC News, BBC Podcast, CNN News , Indiefeed, Jamendo
  
• Photo : Flickr, Picasaweb
  
• RSS feed : Bloglines, Yahoo! Weather, Yahoo Traffic Alerts, Traffic Condition, Cinecast, Yahoo! News, MSNBC News
  
• Peer-to-peer TV : SayaTV
  
• Internet Radio : Shoutcast

Media files supported

• Video containers:
  
  
  
  • MPEG1/2/4 Elementary (M1V, M2V, M4V)
    
  • MPEG1/2 PS (M2P, MPG)
    
  • MPEG2 Transport Stream (TS, TP, TRP, M2T, M2TS, MTS)
    
  • VOB
    
  • AVI, ASF, WMV
    
  • Matroska (MKV)
    
  • MOV (H.264), MP4, RMP4
  
  
• Video codecs:
  
  
  
  • XVID SD/HD
    
  • MPEG-1
    
  • MPEG-2
    
    
    
    • MP@HL
    
    
  • MPEG-4.2
    
    
    
    • ASP@L5, 720p, 1-point GMC
    
    
  • WMV9
    
    
    
    • MP@HL
    
    
  • H.264
    
    
    
    • BP@L3
      
    • MP@L4.0
      
    • HP@L4.0
      
    • HP@L4.1
    
    
  • VC-1
    
    
    
    • MP@HL
      
    • AP@L3
  
  
• Audio containers:
  
  
  
  • AAC, M4A
    
  • MPEG audio (MP1, MP2, MP3, MPA)
    
  • WAV
    
  • WMA
    
  • FLAC
    
  • OGG
  
  
• Audio codecs:
  
  
  
  • AC3
    
  • DTS
    
  • WMA, WMA Pro
    
  • AAC
    
  • MP1, MP2, MP3
    
  • LPCM
    
  • FLAC
    
  • Vorbis
  
  
• Audio pass through : DTS, AC3, DTS-HD MA, DTS-HD HR, Dolby True HD, Dolby Digital Plus
  
• Photo formats : JPEG, BMP, PNG, GIF
  
• Other formats:  ISO, IFO
  
• Subtitle formats : SRT, SMI, SUB, SSA

DRM

• Cardea DRM (WMDRM-ND)

Chipset

• Sigma Designs SMP8635

Memory

• 256MB DDR SDRAM, 32MB Flash

Audio/Video outputs

• HDMI v1.3a (up to 1080p)
  
• Component Video (up to 1080p)
  
• S-Video
  
• Composite Video
  
• Stereo Analog Audio
  
• S/PDIF Optical Digital Audio

Interface

• 1x USB 2.0 slave
  
• 2x USB 2.0 host (placed at front and back panel each)
  
• SATA
  
• Hardware Reset Button

Network

• Ethernet 10/100

Power

• 12V DC, 3A

Dimension

•  Width 270mm x Depth 132mm x Height 32mm

Weight

•  1Kg

n.a.