http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/15/syabas-popbox-surprises-everyone-including-syabas-by-going-on/ Engadget Comments for Syabas Popbox surprises everyone, including Syabas, by going on sale today 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/2010/07/15/syabas-popbox-surprises-everyone-including-syabas-by-going-on/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/15/syabas-popbox-surprises-everyone-including-syabas-by-going-on/Jul 15th 2010 5:45PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/15/syabas-popbox-surprises-everyone-including-syabas-by-going-on/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/15/syabas-popbox-surprises-everyone-including-syabas-by-going-on/Jul 15th 2010 5:46PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/15/syabas-popbox-surprises-everyone-including-syabas-by-going-on/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/15/syabas-popbox-surprises-everyone-including-syabas-by-going-on/Same here, my dad would buy this in a second as he has been eyeing the Roku box which I feel is just getting really long in the tooth and doesn't do nearly as much (expect Netflix which is what he mainly wants)... wait nvm this only works on HDTV's so this is a no go anyway... It's just for an old TV by the elliptical so it's kind of hard to justify a new TV too.]]>Jul 15th 2010 5:54PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/15/syabas-popbox-surprises-everyone-including-syabas-by-going-on/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/15/syabas-popbox-surprises-everyone-including-syabas-by-going-on/Glad I cancelled my order two days ago. No Netflix is a dealbreaker... perhaps they started shipping once they realized how much business they were potentially going to lose?]]>Jul 15th 2010 5:58PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/15/syabas-popbox-surprises-everyone-including-syabas-by-going-on/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/15/syabas-popbox-surprises-everyone-including-syabas-by-going-on/Jul 15th 2010 5:47PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/15/syabas-popbox-surprises-everyone-including-syabas-by-going-on/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/15/syabas-popbox-surprises-everyone-including-syabas-by-going-on/Jul 15th 2010 6:09PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/15/syabas-popbox-surprises-everyone-including-syabas-by-going-on/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/15/syabas-popbox-surprises-everyone-including-syabas-by-going-on/
Cody
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The claims are the limitation of the chipset.

Anyway, I'd hold out for Boxee (assuming they put in the Delete File function).]]>Jul 15th 2010 6:39PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/15/syabas-popbox-surprises-everyone-including-syabas-by-going-on/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/15/syabas-popbox-surprises-everyone-including-syabas-by-going-on/Yeah codec, subtitle and UI are all important to me (and it's frustrating not being able to find any good videos showcasing the UI, or comparisons of the various boxes out there.) Still using XBMC as the high water mark for comparing anything new.
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The out-of-box UI for the popcorn hour (A-110/A-100) is crap, but the free jukeboxes like Yet Another Movie Jukebox (YAMJ) and skins make it beautiful as seen at http://www.networkedmediatank.com/showthread.php?tid=25534 . ]]>Jul 15th 2010 9:22PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/15/syabas-popbox-surprises-everyone-including-syabas-by-going-on/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/15/syabas-popbox-surprises-everyone-including-syabas-by-going-on/Jul 15th 2010 6:56PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/15/syabas-popbox-surprises-everyone-including-syabas-by-going-on/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/15/syabas-popbox-surprises-everyone-including-syabas-by-going-on/Jul 18th 2010 1:38PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/15/syabas-popbox-surprises-everyone-including-syabas-by-going-on/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/15/syabas-popbox-surprises-everyone-including-syabas-by-going-on/If it plays the menu of a blu-ray with full java. I'll buy one.]]>Jul 18th 2010 2:43PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/15/syabas-popbox-surprises-everyone-including-syabas-by-going-on/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/15/syabas-popbox-surprises-everyone-including-syabas-by-going-on/
We own two of the original Popcornhour A100 units, great devices.

Plays almost everything including mkv, xvid, dvd iso and -filled directories.

Highly recommended if these are anything like the originals.]]>Jul 15th 2010 7:01PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/15/syabas-popbox-surprises-everyone-including-syabas-by-going-on/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/15/syabas-popbox-surprises-everyone-including-syabas-by-going-on/How does it do with Bluray?? I have a WDTV Live, and the sound loses sync on some of my movies?
Can they deal with BD ISO, or would I still need to strip the movie out?]]>Jul 15th 2010 7:42PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/15/syabas-popbox-surprises-everyone-including-syabas-by-going-on/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/15/syabas-popbox-surprises-everyone-including-syabas-by-going-on/
The Popcornhour and syabas forums are very active with some nifty work being done. I have a wee program that indexes my movies and tv (about 8.5 TB on a FreeNAS box), generates a webpage with imdb links and whatnot that play direct from the pch.

We've had ours for a while, first model A100, and many people who have seen ours have also bought. The newer units are pretty nice and non-geek friendly.]]>Jul 15th 2010 8:04PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/15/syabas-popbox-surprises-everyone-including-syabas-by-going-on/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/15/syabas-popbox-surprises-everyone-including-syabas-by-going-on/Jul 15th 2010 7:04PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/15/syabas-popbox-surprises-everyone-including-syabas-by-going-on/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/15/syabas-popbox-surprises-everyone-including-syabas-by-going-on/Jul 15th 2010 7:07PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/15/syabas-popbox-surprises-everyone-including-syabas-by-going-on/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/15/syabas-popbox-surprises-everyone-including-syabas-by-going-on/Jul 15th 2010 7:52PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/15/syabas-popbox-surprises-everyone-including-syabas-by-going-on/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/15/syabas-popbox-surprises-everyone-including-syabas-by-going-on/Jul 15th 2010 8:25PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/15/syabas-popbox-surprises-everyone-including-syabas-by-going-on/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/15/syabas-popbox-surprises-everyone-including-syabas-by-going-on/$59 or $65 maybe would move them.]]>Jul 15th 2010 8:40PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/15/syabas-popbox-surprises-everyone-including-syabas-by-going-on/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/15/syabas-popbox-surprises-everyone-including-syabas-by-going-on/Jul 16th 2010 2:18AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/15/syabas-popbox-surprises-everyone-including-syabas-by-going-on/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/15/syabas-popbox-surprises-everyone-including-syabas-by-going-on/
Let me guess, you're the guy whose bathroom is full of towels, soap, and shampoo that say Motel 6 on them.]]>Jul 16th 2010 6:39AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/15/syabas-popbox-surprises-everyone-including-syabas-by-going-on/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/15/syabas-popbox-surprises-everyone-including-syabas-by-going-on/
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Check out the patriot box office. very hackable with active community. rebate makes it $65 right now. external USB drive connetivity, ethernet, wifi, internal drive optional.

doesn't do netflix or hulu, but it does have a bittorrent client with web-based remote admin.

supports EVERY format including realvideo and iso's without mounting them.

finally, it also plays files stored on nas or other networked computer.]]>Jul 16th 2010 1:51AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/15/syabas-popbox-surprises-everyone-including-syabas-by-going-on/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/15/syabas-popbox-surprises-everyone-including-syabas-by-going-on/
BTW, I already have a popcorn hour (got it in the 2nd batch a Looong time ago and one of the viewsonic players, for the kiddos).]]>Jul 15th 2010 10:31PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/15/syabas-popbox-surprises-everyone-including-syabas-by-going-on/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/15/syabas-popbox-surprises-everyone-including-syabas-by-going-on/Jul 15th 2010 11:23PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/15/syabas-popbox-surprises-everyone-including-syabas-by-going-on/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/15/syabas-popbox-surprises-everyone-including-syabas-by-going-on/Jul 16th 2010 12:42AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/15/syabas-popbox-surprises-everyone-including-syabas-by-going-on/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/15/syabas-popbox-surprises-everyone-including-syabas-by-going-on/Jul 16th 2010 7:18AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/15/syabas-popbox-surprises-everyone-including-syabas-by-going-on/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/15/syabas-popbox-surprises-everyone-including-syabas-by-going-on/Jul 16th 2010 8:03AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/15/syabas-popbox-surprises-everyone-including-syabas-by-going-on/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/15/syabas-popbox-surprises-everyone-including-syabas-by-going-on/Jul 16th 2010 8:26AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/15/syabas-popbox-surprises-everyone-including-syabas-by-going-on/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/15/syabas-popbox-surprises-everyone-including-syabas-by-going-on/
Its also almost 3X the retail price of the popbox. It is more comparable to the popcornhour c-200 than the popbox.]]>Jul 16th 2010 10:40AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/15/syabas-popbox-surprises-everyone-including-syabas-by-going-on/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/15/syabas-popbox-surprises-everyone-including-syabas-by-going-on/
Yes, this is true and could also be considered a drawback, but for almost the same price as a 360 or PS3, you get a media streamer that also "only does everything." Two more pluses: 1) the developers actually listen to and address complaints that users post in forums like MPC Club, and 2) it handles HFS+ USB drives without batting an eye. This is NOT a given for many of the streamers out there and is crucial if you can't stream files over 4 GB (which means forget about ISOs or larger MKVs).

The original WDTV and newer versions have always supported HFS+, but they continue to do so with weird read error messages at times. For my money, the Dune is solid and continues to improve. I've never been interested in whether it can do Netflix or other apps; I just want to watch what's on my drives with no problems.]]>Jul 16th 2010 11:06AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/15/syabas-popbox-surprises-everyone-including-syabas-by-going-on/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/15/syabas-popbox-surprises-everyone-including-syabas-by-going-on/Jul 16th 2010 11:50AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/15/syabas-popbox-surprises-everyone-including-syabas-by-going-on/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/15/syabas-popbox-surprises-everyone-including-syabas-by-going-on/http://www.avsforum.com/avs-vb/showthread.php?t=1263001&page=4

So far 3 people have received the Popbox. 1 was DoA. The second one looked like it was going to work but locked up. The third one the user accidentally changed to an unsupported video mode and as far as he can tell there is no way back. The support responses have been useless. ]]>Jul 16th 2010 1:22PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/15/syabas-popbox-surprises-everyone-including-syabas-by-going-on/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/15/syabas-popbox-surprises-everyone-including-syabas-by-going-on/Jul 16th 2010 2:21PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/15/syabas-popbox-surprises-everyone-including-syabas-by-going-on/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/15/syabas-popbox-surprises-everyone-including-syabas-by-going-on/Jul 16th 2010 3:21PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/15/syabas-popbox-surprises-everyone-including-syabas-by-going-on/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/15/syabas-popbox-surprises-everyone-including-syabas-by-going-on/No, it will never have netflix support. The processor in the popbox does not have macrovision copy protection, which is a requirement for netflix streaming. That's why WD had to change CPUs for the WD Live Plus to add the feature. NMT knows this, but they've been lying about netflix support from the beginning to sell units before people caught on.]]>Jul 16th 2010 6:16PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/15/syabas-popbox-surprises-everyone-including-syabas-by-going-on/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/15/syabas-popbox-surprises-everyone-including-syabas-by-going-on/http://blog.djvitamind.com/]]>Jul 22nd 2010 5:36PM