http://www.engadget.com/2007/10/12/popcorn-hours-networked-media-tank-seen-early/ Engadget Comments for Popcorn Hour's Networked Media Tank seen early http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2007/10/12/popcorn-hours-networked-media-tank-seen-early/http://www.engadget.com/2007/10/12/popcorn-hours-networked-media-tank-seen-early/Oct 12th 2007 11:09AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/10/12/popcorn-hours-networked-media-tank-seen-early/http://www.engadget.com/2007/10/12/popcorn-hours-networked-media-tank-seen-early/Oct 12th 2007 11:34AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/10/12/popcorn-hours-networked-media-tank-seen-early/http://www.engadget.com/2007/10/12/popcorn-hours-networked-media-tank-seen-early/Oct 14th 2007 6:25AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/10/12/popcorn-hours-networked-media-tank-seen-early/http://www.engadget.com/2007/10/12/popcorn-hours-networked-media-tank-seen-early/Oct 12th 2007 11:12AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/10/12/popcorn-hours-networked-media-tank-seen-early/http://www.engadget.com/2007/10/12/popcorn-hours-networked-media-tank-seen-early/Oct 12th 2007 12:31PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/10/12/popcorn-hours-networked-media-tank-seen-early/http://www.engadget.com/2007/10/12/popcorn-hours-networked-media-tank-seen-early/Oct 12th 2007 2:01PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/10/12/popcorn-hours-networked-media-tank-seen-early/http://www.engadget.com/2007/10/12/popcorn-hours-networked-media-tank-seen-early/Oct 12th 2007 5:41PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/10/12/popcorn-hours-networked-media-tank-seen-early/http://www.engadget.com/2007/10/12/popcorn-hours-networked-media-tank-seen-early/Oct 12th 2007 11:21AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/10/12/popcorn-hours-networked-media-tank-seen-early/http://www.engadget.com/2007/10/12/popcorn-hours-networked-media-tank-seen-early/
Also specs on what size HD this thing can handle and if it has any ports for additional HD happiness would be nice too. Oh, and if it does have a gigabit port they lost one sale.]]>Oct 12th 2007 11:24AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/10/12/popcorn-hours-networked-media-tank-seen-early/http://www.engadget.com/2007/10/12/popcorn-hours-networked-media-tank-seen-early/
Thanks for the other info. I'll check out the router as I am looking for a NAS. I really like the Thecus 5200 pro and would love to mate it with 5 TB HDs but alas the TB drives are still out of reach for me, especially 5 of them. So perhaps your setup may work for me as long as XBMC can see the drives. I'll have to get the NAS eventually though as I have "too much stuff" (over 13 TBs and counting)...I'm a collector of sorts with a bad addition to everything it seems :)
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Im guessing you dont think a NAS is of much use either...]]>Oct 12th 2007 3:56PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/10/12/popcorn-hours-networked-media-tank-seen-early/http://www.engadget.com/2007/10/12/popcorn-hours-networked-media-tank-seen-early/Oct 12th 2007 4:18PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/10/12/popcorn-hours-networked-media-tank-seen-early/http://www.engadget.com/2007/10/12/popcorn-hours-networked-media-tank-seen-early/Oct 12th 2007 11:46AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/10/12/popcorn-hours-networked-media-tank-seen-early/http://www.engadget.com/2007/10/12/popcorn-hours-networked-media-tank-seen-early/Oct 12th 2007 11:48AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/10/12/popcorn-hours-networked-media-tank-seen-early/http://www.engadget.com/2007/10/12/popcorn-hours-networked-media-tank-seen-early/http://www.neuston.com/Images/MC500/MC500_in_15.jpg

Completely different looking interface though

Richard]]>Oct 12th 2007 12:53PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/10/12/popcorn-hours-networked-media-tank-seen-early/http://www.engadget.com/2007/10/12/popcorn-hours-networked-media-tank-seen-early/
I have a few players from Syabas and they're actually fairly decent devices. For $179 they'll probably do OK since there aren't many competitive products in the space at that price point.]]>Oct 12th 2007 12:13PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/10/12/popcorn-hours-networked-media-tank-seen-early/http://www.engadget.com/2007/10/12/popcorn-hours-networked-media-tank-seen-early/
Variety of video/audio output options
Video Output - Composite/S-Video, Component Video (Progressive and Interlace) and HDMI
Audio Output - SPDIF, Coaxial and Analog Stereo



Network connectivity
LAN 10/100Mbps
Wireless 802.11n


Network Protocol
HTTP
RTSP


IDE interface
Hard disk drive (optional)
Memory Card Reader - Compact Flash, IBM Microdrive, Memory Stick, Memory Stick Pro, MMC, SD, Smart Media and xD (optional)


USB 2.0 support
USB Command Block Specification - SCSI Transparent Command Set and SFF8070i
Mass Storage Devices - Compact Flash, IBM Microdrive, Memory Stick, Memory Stick Pro, MMC, SD, Smart Media, xD and Hard-disk
File System - FAT-12, FAT-16, FAT-32 and NTFS


Supported media formats
Video - MPEG1/2/4, Open DivX-HD, Xvid-HD and WMV9-HD, H.264

Audio - MP1/2/3, WMA, WMA Pro, Ogg Vorbis, AAC, AC3, PCM, WAV and FLAC

Photo - JPEG, Animated GIF89a, BMP and PNG
Subtitle - MicroDVD (*.sub), SubRip (*.srt), Sub Station Alpha (*.ssa), Microsoft's Synchronized Accessible Media Interchange - SAMI (*.smi)




HTML browser
HTML 3.2 compliant and partial HTML 4.0 support
Partial Javascript 1.5 support
Partial CSS2 support
Proprietary Consumer HTML support to ease navigation using a remote control
Partial Cascading Style Sheet (CSS1)
Partial Netscape and IE extensions including exception handling
Syabas HTML extensions to ease web page design
Syabas HTML extensions to provide simple startup of media streaming features
Cookies function support
Full graphical frames
Local file system implemented as disk on RAM and/or flash memory
Fast HTML page and downloaded files caching in RAM disk
Automatic local time synchronization with server time
GIF87, Animated GIF89a, JPEG, and progressive JPEG image files support
Portable Network Graphics (PNG) image files support
Ability to support double byte character sets for internationalization effort. Current supported character sets: English, Chinese Simplified (GB2312), Chinese Traditional (Big5), Japanese (ISO-2022JP, Shift-JIS, EUC-JP), Korean (EUC-KR), Hebrew (no right to left alignment)
Secure Sockets Layer 2.0/3.0, TLSv1 40-bit and 128-bit encryption for secure online transaction
Javascript/ECMAScript (ECMA-262) support


Compliance with Industry Standard
UPnP AV / NMPR v2.1 - a Universal Plug n Play standard for audio / video streaming devices
DLNA compliant
myiHome Lite - Proprietary HTML based UI server for content streaming
Apple's Bonjour - Apple's network device discovery protocol for Mac OS
Windows Vista and WMP 11 - Seamless support for Windows Vista and Windows XP Media Player 11 built-in media server




Premium content
Broadcasting - Internet TV, Podcasting, Internet Radio
Online videos - Google Video search, Yahoo! Video search
Photo sharing - Flickr Photo, SONY Image Station



IPTV standard
WMS HTTP / RTSP Streaming Technology
Microsoft / Cisco Multicast Streaming Technology
ISMAv1 RTSP Streaming Technology
Multicast Streaming Technology
H.264 / WMV9 HD Streaming and MPEG4 SD format
WMV9 High / Standard Definition Streaming with Janus DRM (silent type) capability


Remote Control Support
NEC IR protocol Transmission Format with Carrier Frequency @ 38 Khz]]>Oct 12th 2007 12:13PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/10/12/popcorn-hours-networked-media-tank-seen-early/http://www.engadget.com/2007/10/12/popcorn-hours-networked-media-tank-seen-early/Oct 12th 2007 1:16PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/10/12/popcorn-hours-networked-media-tank-seen-early/http://www.engadget.com/2007/10/12/popcorn-hours-networked-media-tank-seen-early/
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Even so its still a mightly spec. I live in the UK and might have to get one sent over.]]>Oct 12th 2007 2:01PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/10/12/popcorn-hours-networked-media-tank-seen-early/http://www.engadget.com/2007/10/12/popcorn-hours-networked-media-tank-seen-early/Oct 12th 2007 2:27PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/10/12/popcorn-hours-networked-media-tank-seen-early/http://www.engadget.com/2007/10/12/popcorn-hours-networked-media-tank-seen-early/Oct 12th 2007 2:53PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/10/12/popcorn-hours-networked-media-tank-seen-early/http://www.engadget.com/2007/10/12/popcorn-hours-networked-media-tank-seen-early/Oct 12th 2007 4:51PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/10/12/popcorn-hours-networked-media-tank-seen-early/http://www.engadget.com/2007/10/12/popcorn-hours-networked-media-tank-seen-early/Oct 13th 2007 12:02AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/10/12/popcorn-hours-networked-media-tank-seen-early/http://www.engadget.com/2007/10/12/popcorn-hours-networked-media-tank-seen-early/Oct 12th 2007 2:53PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/10/12/popcorn-hours-networked-media-tank-seen-early/http://www.engadget.com/2007/10/12/popcorn-hours-networked-media-tank-seen-early/Oct 12th 2007 4:02PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/10/12/popcorn-hours-networked-media-tank-seen-early/http://www.engadget.com/2007/10/12/popcorn-hours-networked-media-tank-seen-early/Oct 12th 2007 7:03PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/10/12/popcorn-hours-networked-media-tank-seen-early/http://www.engadget.com/2007/10/12/popcorn-hours-networked-media-tank-seen-early/Oct 12th 2007 9:52PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/10/12/popcorn-hours-networked-media-tank-seen-early/http://www.engadget.com/2007/10/12/popcorn-hours-networked-media-tank-seen-early/
Even if this design had been used before, the internals are different so you can't judge on external esign what a player will become ryos...

Hi-Jack
www.mpcclub.com]]>Oct 13th 2007 1:03AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/10/12/popcorn-hours-networked-media-tank-seen-early/http://www.engadget.com/2007/10/12/popcorn-hours-networked-media-tank-seen-early/
http://webpro.com.tw/iTHEATER120.htm

Same enclosure, same board, the internal IDE connector isn't populated on my board though.

It's a UPnPAV box running Syabas firmware. Mine currently runs the DigitalRise Xstream firmware, because they made their updates downloadable online rather than through the device only - pop .bin on a flash drive with an HTML that links to the .bin on the drive, and it updates from the flash drive.

I'd like for these mediabank folks to make their .bin available, and I'd keep updating. Shoot, I might even get motivated and populate the connector and drive in mine.]]>Oct 13th 2007 9:17PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/10/12/popcorn-hours-networked-media-tank-seen-early/http://www.engadget.com/2007/10/12/popcorn-hours-networked-media-tank-seen-early/
HiJack knows everything there is to know about these sigma based boards.]]>Oct 14th 2007 6:14PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/10/12/popcorn-hours-networked-media-tank-seen-early/http://www.engadget.com/2007/10/12/popcorn-hours-networked-media-tank-seen-early/
I was so close to spending $500 on the cheapest PS3 on the market instead of waiting 6 weeks for hope of a $400 version. It was either that or just buy a laptop for my living room and have to deal with crappy video out.

The only question I have is will this require server software on the host PC or can it read windows file shares like XBMC?]]>Oct 15th 2007 5:13AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/10/12/popcorn-hours-networked-media-tank-seen-early/http://www.engadget.com/2007/10/12/popcorn-hours-networked-media-tank-seen-early/Oct 15th 2007 5:15AM