Popcorn Hour A-110/B-110 Review Part 2/2 - The Real HT Info

Part 2 of 2: The B-110. The Real HT Info Podcast brings you a video review of the Popcorn Hour A-110 and B-110. These media extenders costs $215 and $199 respectively, but will playback every file format you can throw at it, up to 1080p and now with HDMI 1.3 for Dolby True HD and Digital Plus bitstream pass-through. With the B-110 motherboard, you can even choose your own case, and add multiple harddrives/optical drives.

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[sebiF002]

Does the B-110 have Slave-USB like the A-110? I think it wasn't mentioned in the Video and i couldn't find anything with Google.

The rest of the video was greath. Thx :)

[realhtinfo]

I don't believe that it does as there is no rear-panel connector for it, and no motherboard header designated. As it stands, it appears the B-100 is no longer being offered on the popcorn hour website.

Thanks for watching.

[realhtinfo]

I'm actually in the middle of moving from New York to Oregon, so everything will be boxed up for a month or so, but if you email me a small file, I might be able to get setup to test out a file.

Though, if you want an answer sooner, I'd post over in the Popcorn Hour forums. My guess is that it will work, and you won't have been the first one to try it.

[TheYurry]

does it support all external optical drives???

[realhtinfo]

The USB drives I've tried out, yes, but keep in mind, what's on the disc also needs to be supported. Simply hooking up a Blu-ray drive won't net you a BR Player because, while the files are supported, the protected discs are not. You'll need the new Popcorn Hour C-200 for that.

[broadwayblue604]

Awesome review. I have a Flip Mino HD video camera. Will this unit play the output files without issue?

[ERISBEAUTY]

Accessing the data within network from Popcorn Hour but thanks to you everything I have been searching for a while has been answered and I have found many other answers and issues solved through forums and people like you keeping these sites noob friendly!

I appriciate your help and look forward till your next review. Keep it up

[realhtinfo]

It uses NFS, SMB, HT*P, whatever protocol you use to share your files and folders over your network. The popcorn hour website has much more information on this.

[realhtinfo]

Not sure what you're asking here. If you mean can you access files stored on the local harddrive installed in the Popcorn Hour from other PCs on your network, the answer is yes. Other PCs on the internet, the answer is no.

[ERISBEAUTY]

I found that web services sush as ORB and myihome can easily do this but isn't there such an option where you could just pull up your files from wireless or ethernet lead and just play the media ?

Once more thanks a million