Popcorn Hour A-100 Reviews

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Reviewers rate this product 82/100. We analyzed these ratings, the product age and more factors. Compared to other Digital Video Recorders (DVR), the Popcorn Hour A-100 is awarded an overall alaScore™ of 90/100 = Excellent quality.

Economical and featured-filled media streamer has a relatively rudimentary interface.

Very good playback quality. Low cost ; Broad media format support

Cursory documentation ; Immature and limited interface

If you can live with its interface limitations, Popcorn Hour delivers more media for your money than any other streamer

In creating the original Xbox, Microsoft unwittingly helped create the single most affordable and feature packed media player of the Standard Definition age. The free open source Xbox Media Centre (XBMC) software - when coupled with a modified Xbox - ...

Plays back everything. E-V-E-R-Y-T-H-I-N-G ; Great price ; Tiny form factor ; Regular Firmware Updates

Plain UI Some creature comfortsmissing - bookmarking (for all files), reading within RARs, etc ; 3.5? internal drive way too hot, loud ; No off button ; Buggy ; No Gigabit Ethernet ; No SATA

The Popcorn Hour A-100 is one of the new breed of hardware devices which looks as if it will forever be in beta. While the firmware has already been updated since we received our unit - and solved some issues - it isn't complete. And I suspect it will ...