The Popcorn Hour

MediaTank

It's aviable from the offiicial web site - www.popcornhour.com and through www.mpcclub.com and various eBay stores. You need to buy the hard drive separately, though some eBay stores may preinstall one for you. The official site is not the best as you can only preorder there. If your heart is set on a PCH then try the above, alternatively the other NMT devices on the market have better availability.

Basq

My brother (in Portugal) bought from here, but they'll pre-install a drive for you.

They charge €35 shipping to Ireland though.

MediaTank

No VAT or import duty to pay from Spain though, so that could be well worth checking out.

Basq

MediaTank wrote: »

No VAT or import duty to pay from Spain though, so that could be well worth checking out.

Yep, that's exactly it.

Worthwhile to avoid the VAT or import duty.

Linoge

eoghand wrote: »

Does anyone know when the popcorn hour a110 is available to get and where is the best place to get it perferably with a internal hard drive?

The hard drive is a piece of miss to install though. Just make sure you buy a SATA drive (I bought the Samsung Spinpoint F1 750GB from komplett €94 delivered)

There are just fours thumb screws at the top, lift up, slot in hardrive and fix in place with screws. lid back on. Go to setup menu on player to format hard drive. You might save yourself some money.

eoghand

Thanks for all that, will go with the Portugal website http://www.popcornhour.es/en/tienda and might add the hard drive to it. As there is no wi-fi with this would you recommend getting the optional USB-WiFi Atheros AR9001U-2NG as well?

vectra

eoghand wrote: »

Thanks for all that, will go with the Portugal website http://www.popcornhour.es/en/tienda and might add the hard drive to it. As there is no wi-fi with this would you recommend getting the optional USB-WiFi Atheros AR9001U-2NG as well?

As far as I know you cannot stream Hi Def properly via Wireless

I have the Egreat with a 500 gig samsung drive and it is excellent

MediaTank

vectra wrote: »

As far as I know you cannot stream Hi Def properly via Wireless

As it's Wireless N theoretically you can, and there are also a few problems with the Atheros WiFi card. These will be (fingers crossed) resolved in future firmware.

More importantly the card is USB which will use the only USB port on the device, meaning you can't have a USB drive attached at the same time.

BernardMc

basquille wrote: »

Yep, that's exactly it.

Worthwhile to avoid the VAT or import duty.

Try getting it here for cheaper than the Portugese site with hard drive pre-installed, works out at about €330 delivered. They're expected stock in on November 21st...
http://www.advancedmp3players.co.uk/shop/product_info.php?currency=EUR&cPath=23&products_id=3519&amp3sid=ahs3kc2ihkcqqhovq86eprmbs2

Basq

My brother got his A-110 along with about 7 friends at work (they bought in bulk), 5 of his friends have had hardware problems with it and sent them back.

The company they bought them off offered them an Egreat EG-M31B as a replacement.. his is fine but he said 5 out of 7 units failing is not comforting.

Velcrow

Just to say I'm joining this popcorn club - got mine here http://www.planetgizmo.co.uk/ and am awaiting delivery.

Is there a definitive wiki for this piece of kit?

Thanks Velcrow

MediaTank

Here you go http://www.networkedmediatank.com/wiki/index.php/Main_Page

Velcrow

Great -

and specifically for the A110

http://www.networkedmediatank.com/forumdisplay.php?fid=65

Thanks MT

emerald007

Hey,

Does the A110 tank only support the Popcorn Hour WN-100 USB dongle? I've an old belkin wireless dongle that i'd like to use, and before i wreck my head trying to get it work i'd like to hear if anybody else has got this working.

Regards

MediaTank

emerald007 wrote: »

Hey,

Does the A110 tank only support the Popcorn Hour WN-100 USB dongle? I've an old belkin wireless dongle that i'd like to use, and before i wreck my head trying to get it work i'd like to hear if anybody else has got this working.

Regards

Only the PCH one is supported and even this has problems. THe chances of getting the Belkin one working are close to zero.

MT

Velcrow

Might be of help

http://www.networkedmediatank.com/showthread.php?tid=3808

Velcrow

Popcorn hour with yamj was my best buy of 2009 (so far !)

DinoBot

Hi,

I have only come across this product in the last few days, looks very good.

So, I am wondering as a setup is it better to use the Wifi WN-100 adaptor or an ethernet plug to connect to network ?

Also, can you download movie files to the hard drive over the Wifi ?

Thanks

MediaTank

DinoBot wrote: »

Hi,

I have only come across this product in the last few days, looks very good.

So, I am wondering as a setup is it better to use the Wifi WN-100 adaptor or an ethernet plug to connect to network ?

Also, can you download movie files to the hard drive over the Wifi ?

Thanks

Ethernet cable works best especially if you are interested in hidef content. Yes the PCH (if you install a hard disk in it) has a BitTorrent and an NZBget client that you can use to download content.

DinoBot

MediaTank wrote: »

Ethernet cable works best especially if you are interested in hidef content. Yes the PCH (if you install a hard disk in it) has a BitTorrent and an NZBget client that you can use to download content.

Thanks,

Which plugs are best to use or are they all pretty much the same ?

Do you know best place to get PCH, I was looking to buy from the states but unsure how much excise duty is.

MediaTank

Standard Ethernet cable, RJ45 connectors. There is a place in Spain, check this thread for details.

Velcrow

Hi I got mine from here -

http://www.planetgizmo.co.uk/popcorn-hour-a-110-networked-media-tank.html

No problems, and the exchange rate is good with sterling.

Might be able to get it cheaper on ebay or from MediaTanks reference above.

rai555

just bought my from here : https://www.ripcaster.co.uk/node/329

they claimed 0.00 postage to Ireland and i'm looking forward to hear from them or the PC to arrive

DinoBot

Just got mine today, no sound from HDMI :mad:

Anyone else have trouble like this ????


Got it, I had my DTS set to Analog, should be set to Digital (raw).

All is good with the world again

Standard Toaster

@DinoBot

Do you have your hdmi going into a seperate first or just your TV??

Think I'll buy one this weekend.

MediaTank

The_Edge wrote: »

@DinoBot

Do you have your hdmi going into a seperate first or just your TV??

Think I'll buy one this weekend.

Must be a separate as he referred to DTS sound.

Standard Toaster

Thought as much. Cheers

Thumpette

Apologies for the totally non technical- ness of my post!

I just got one of these as a pressie and I want to get the terrabyte drive with it too. I am totally bamboozed after trying to google though.

Would anyone be able to provide me with a link to a hard drive that is in or will deliver (within a week) to Ireland that would fit this?

I would be mighty grateful

JohnDigital

Thumpette wrote: »

Would anyone be able to provide me with a link to a hard drive that is in or will deliver (within a week) to Ireland that would fit this?

Here you are. I have a 500Gb version of this disc in mine and I've not had a moments trouble.

https://komplett.ie/k/ki.aspx?sku=391606

Its the same one listed second on the compatible drives listed here so there wont be any issues with that one http://www.networkedmediatank.com/wiki/index.php/HDD_Compatibility

vectra

Thumpette wrote: »

Would anyone be able to provide me with a link to a hard drive that is in or will deliver (within a week) to Ireland that would fit this?

I would be mighty grateful

Here you go >> Samsung F1 I have this particular one and the 32mb cache made some diffference over 16mb ones

Linoge

vectra wrote: »

Here you go >> Samsung F1 I have this particular one and the 32mb cache made some diffference over 16mb ones

I have the 750gb version in my one and I defo agree. Samsung from Komplett is one of the best prices you are going to get.