Popcorn Hour C-200 launch nearly upon us, preorders start tomorrow

As you may have noticed, the new Popcorn Hour C-200 media box didn't quite make its anticipated July launch, but the company now says that as of 12 a.m. PST August 27, pre-orders will open allowing the willing faithful to put in a request for the first batch, anticipated to ship September 3 or thereabouts. Don't remember the June announcement? The $299 Sigma powered box takes HDD, Blu-ray discs, USB or network inputs of nearly any video or audio codec available and brings them to your living room. Since then, pics and video of the units guts and interface have leaked out on the forums, check after the break or beyond the read link for a better look.

[Via MediaSmartServer.net]

Unboxing:

Interface preview:

C-200 Blu-ray demo:

[(Unverified) Posted Aug 27th 2009 1:47AM]

Yeah Yeah Yeah :-)

[DonMayJr Posted Aug 27th 2009 3:50AM]

Have been trying, for 48 minutes to order one of these things and the Popcorn Hour website keeps erroring out when I try and put one in the shopping cart. Now, just going to the main website homepage takes forever and I get "Page Load Errors". Hrmmm... frustrating. I set my alarm to get up to order one of these things and the website seems to be overloaded.

[Jonthomasdesigns Posted Aug 27th 2009 9:19AM]

I ordered mine today .. With the IR add on it came to $340 (shipping was 30 ouch) .. But i had great luck with my PCH A-100 and i will sell it to a friend .. Bluray .ISO support had me sold .. i have been done with DVD's for awhile and yes .M2TS files work just fine on A-100 but having the menu's is a nice bonus .. When i get it i will write up a nice review of what i think

Http://www.drshocker.com

[Ragged Dog Posted Aug 27th 2009 10:40AM]

Demo #2 is a stupid waste of my time. How about going through all the screens. If I want to look at hot chicks and listen to bad music, this is not the site.

[tranzparentl Posted Aug 27th 2009 10:46AM]

http://cr4.globalspec.com/blogentry/10033/Review-Popcorn-Hour-A-110-Popcorn-Hour-C-200

[waymon Posted Aug 27th 2009 11:34AM]

I would buy this right now if someone could guarantee me that it will play 1080p mkvs with profile 5+. I have yet to find anything (besides a pc) to play these files.

Also can someone point me in a direction what profile 1,2,3,4,5 are?

[(Unverified) Posted Aug 27th 2009 1:05PM]

Profile 5.1 is used for mastering Blu-Rays and is a sign that the video was ripped by someone who doesn't know what they are doing. There is a very good chance that this will not properly play profile 5.1 videos.

http://www.networkedmediatank.com/wiki/index.php/MKV_Troubleshooting#MKV_RE-ENCODING

[(Unverified) Posted Aug 27th 2009 8:55PM]

Plex OSX does play 1080p MKVs profile 5.1 like butter on my 2009 Macmini.

[erh Posted Aug 27th 2009 4:27PM]

My Popcorn Hour A-100 was a good deal at $179. But I don't see what justifies the extra $120 for the C-200.

[(Unverified) Posted Aug 31st 2009 10:13AM]

I agree. For $300 I can build a kickass fanless Atom HTPC. I think I'll stick with my A-100 for now.