Popcorn Hour launches the new A-200 Networked Media Tank, basically a HD media player/streamer with Ethernet connection. The A-200 is able to stream content directly from popular Internet sites like Videocast, CNET TV, CBS/CNN channels..etc and supports media playback/streaming from other PCs in home network or internal/USB hard drive.

The Popcorn Hour A-200 sports a Sigma Designs SMP8643, 667MHz CPU, 512MB RAM and 256MB Flash memory. It offers HDMI 1.3 output as well as Component video, S-video, Composite video, analog/digital audio. It has internal mounting for SATA hard drive and two USB 2.0 HOST ports and a USB 2.0 slave port. The Networked Media Tank can handle BitTorrent download as well.

Popcorn Hour A-200 will be available for order on 18 January 2010 for $179.00. It is also available with the WN-150 WiFi adapter for $199.

Supported Media File Formats

Video containers:

MPEG1/2/4 Elementary (M1V, M2V, M4V)

MPEG1/2 PS (M2P, MPG, DAT, VOB)

MPEG2 Transport Stream (TS, TP, TRP, M2T, M2TS, MTS)

AVI, ASF, WMV

Matroska (MKV)

MOV (H.264), MP4, RMP4

Video Decoders:

XVID SD/HD

MPEG-1

MPEG-2 MP@HL

MPEG-4.2 ASP@L5, 720p, 1-point GMC

MPEG-4.10 (H.264) : BP@L3, MP@L4.0, HP@L4.0, HP@L4.1

WMV9 : MP@HL

SMPTE 421M (VC-1) : MP@HL, AP@L3

Audio Containers:

AAC, M4A

MPEG audio (MP1, MP2, MP3, MPA)

WAV

WMA

FLAC

OGG

Audio Decoders:

Dolby Digital

DTS

WMA, WMA Pro

MPEG-1 Layer 1, 2, 3

MPEG-4 AAC-LC

MPEG-4 HE-AAC

MPEG-4 BSAC

LPCM

FLAC

Vorbis

Audio Pass-Through:

DTS, DTS-HD HR, DTS-HD MA

Dolby Digital, Dolby Digital Plus, Dolby True HD

Other Formats:

ISO, IFO navigation

AVCHD navigation

Simple BD navigation

Photo Formats:

JPEG, BMP, PNG, GIF

Subtitle Formats:

SRT, MicroDVD SUB, SSA, SUB/IDX

Compare A-200, C-200 and A-110

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