I am trying to sell off my POHD mini 2 before buying this. Please pm me for best price bro. Thanks.

finally got my A-210. very nice user experience. personally, i feel that the buttons design in the remote control could be better. the buttons mostly feels like 2D-ish

Finally new firmware updated on popcorn hour A-200/210

http://www.popcornhour.com/download/A200/firmware-A200.html

but the latest firmware on August 10 required minimum firmware version to use this NMT App is 03-04-120727-21-POP-411-000 which released on July 31

then go to firmware 03-04-120727-21-POP-411-000, it said the min firmware required is also itself? what does it mean?

I'm after a new Media Player but I can't work out the key differences between the C-300 and A-300 / A-400 will there be a C-400?
Any comparison chart anywhere?

I'm after (MINIMUM): USB 3, Gigabyte LAN, for copying movies quickly from LAN Networked PC's.

I like the idea of Fully Automated Networked Media Jukebox Creation but my previous experience with my current AC RYAN PlayON HD ACR-PV73100 has been appauling (I will Never buy an AC Ryan Product ever again)

I like the idea of a built in Blu-Ray Player to clear some of the CD-DVD players from around the TV but can you back-up a Blu-Ray to an ISO or similar?

When is A-400 due in? http://www.popcornhour.com don't even list it, but I'm guessing the Sigma Design Dual Core processor will be a huge boost to performance?

PM me some prices and recomendations, please.

The internal HDD controller chipset for the PCH (and similar players) is extremely slow.  This is for two reasons:

1. Cost of chipset
2. Power (remember, all power you consume becomes heat)

As such, there is no way you will get more than a few MB (I estimate 5 MB/s, 50Mb/s) in actual read/write speed to the disk.  There simply isn't enough horsepower there, and insufficient use of NCQ, etc.

Why is this not a problem, normally?  Think of the files you play.  A 720p movie, 90 mins, is 2GB.  So you need 22MB/min read speed.  That is MUCH LESS THAN 1MB/s !!!!  (Sorry for shouting. but this is critical).  Compare this to the 5MB/s that you can achieve.  You have enough headroom for even your 10GB movie rips.

So in normal practice, when using the PCH as a media player, disk speed is so low a constraint that you would not even bother to benchmark.  That is why it makes no difference if you have a 10000RPM Raptor, or a cheap USB dongle, for playing your BR Rips. 

(And this is the entire point of x264, mp4, etc.  We are using compression to lower the physical bit rate required).

However, if you use the PCH as a NAS, and start expecting it to serve your 200MB photoshop.psd file, you WILL hit speed bumps.

You may achieve 20MB/s over the network interface (I have my doubts, the Gigabit chip is being run in a low-power mode as well), but there in no place for the PCH to write a 20MB/s stream to.

(And by the way, most nome NAS boxes also claim Gigabit interfaces, but their disk access speed is poor. )

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Sanjeev Gupta
Happy PCH user for 4 years

i read some review,A-400 only supports lite menu,not like C-300 can play full menu.