Time for some Popcorn
March 19, 2008
I’m so excited! Why you ask? Only because I finally received my invitation to buy Popcorn Hour!
Way back in February, I did a little drive by linking, and mentioned Popcorn Hour. Popcorn Hour is a standalone video player, that can play video files from a number of sources. It can play files that you store on a local hard drive, files shared by other computers in the house, and even videos on youtube.
All in all, this is a sweet little device. You don’t have to have a hard drive to operate it, and without a drive, it sells for $179.
There has been such a demand for the player, that it became an invite only system. I signed up a month or so ago, and Monday I received my invitation to buy it.
When I initially signed up, I wasn’t sure if I was going to want to buy it or not, but recently I’ve ran into some frustrations when trying to get some video files on DVD to watch on my television. That has been such a pain, that even my wife is all for buying it.
So I went ahead and ordered it. (W00t!)
I won’t receive mine until sometime in April, but you can be sure I’ll let you know what I think of it.
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March 19th, 2008 at 1:45 pm
Doesn’t Windows Media Center already do all of this?
Or if you’re an open source kind of guy, as I am, you could use MythTV.
March 19th, 2008 at 4:06 pm
I’m pretty sure it doesn’t. I don’t think it can stream from the internet, and it only recognized Windows Media stuff. Some problems with Divx and Xvid, doesn’t do the apple file format line up, not DVD ISOs.
Popcorn hour does so many formats that it isn’t funny. The big thing though, it only costs $179. I didn’t want to spend the money to get a nice form factor for the living room, and I didn’t want to put some old computer up there either.
Thanks for the comment Art!