Popcorn Hour C-200 Blu-ray and HD audio support!

[Hdale85]

http://www.popcornhour.com/onlinestore/index.php?pluginoption=catalog

Wow! you can install a blu-ray drive or use a USB one. It also supports bit-streaming of HD audio even DTS-HD MA as well as decoding and outputting as LPCM. It also supports HD audio inside the MKV wrapper as well as .TS and .M2TS files. So things I've been wanting in my HTPC for a long time are available in this 300 dollar box.... I think I'll be moving my HTPC to another room shortly.

Here is a nice VERY in depth review of the C-200, granted it's almost a year old so there are probably many new firmwares that made it work much better. I think this guy was browsing files over wireless as well as the web features so I imagine that slowed things down a bit.

[YOUTUBE]QH-zcvZ5SjY[/YOUTUBE]

[Hdale85]

Hmm I guess no one else is interested in such devices

[aud19]

I'll have a look when I have more time

[Hdale85]

Sounds good. I think I've for the most part decided to go this route. It's cheaper then building a new low power HTPC, or at least close in price but in a nice form factor with a nice enclosure.

[M.Roberts8]

Hdale85,
Did you ever buy one of these ? I came across the popcorn hour a while back and forgot about them actually.

[Hdale85]

No I ended up upgrading my htpc and what not, honestly pretty much everything I liked about the pch is now able to be done in linux.