this is exciting even I would say this is the popcorn hour c200 this is the
brand new networked media tank from popcorn hour these things just landed so
we're finally shipping them so I'm really excited to be able to bring you
this unboxing the first thing you might notice and I'll use a there I'll use an
external hard drive for size comparison this thing is huge the box is like way
oversized I know because we had to Airship these things in to make sure
that we had stock right away okay first of all let's have a look at the back so
the chipset most important thing about the popcorn hour it's using a sigma
designs chipset so awesome so they haven't changed the design from that
perspective they do have a full list well probably not a full list but an
extensive list of all the different media files that are supported all the
video decoders all the audio containers all that good stuff all the web services
so you can even do where was it you can even have a uset downloader on here so
it does bit torrent uset UPnP all that
kind of connectivity Ethernet gigabit now as opposed to the 10100 that was on
the old A200 and or a100 110 one of
those the old popcorn hour uh you know what let's get this open cuz I'm kind of
failing at reading the boxs there so open up the top just like this then open
up this side and open up these two sides
and let's just flip it over and slide out the popcorn hour c200 now one of the
big changes they've made with the c200 is that it now has support for an
optical drive so what that means is you can actually
inall a Blu-ray Drive in the popcorn
hour now so first let's have a look at the quick start guide so this is for
setting up your c200 shows you everything that should come with it
which we'll have a look at in a minute so we don't need to talk about that too much shows you you want to connect the
HDMI cable install the antenna for the RF remote control that's cool that it
comes with an RF remote control the old one was infrared and it you know I mean
infrared remotes are never perfect but this is non-directional so you can use
it when you're pointing it anywhere and then you just do the RF control matching
to make sure that they are synced up awesome okay so let's see what we've got
for accessories so you got kind of a an
brown paper bag like a lunch bag here and that has your accessories in it so
here is your quick start guide okay so it's about let me see it's about yay big
and it's giving you the basics of setting up your Home Server where you're
going to pull all of your nwor data off of to watch media on your popcorn hour
okay oh some last minute notes due to the short time to Market some features
may not be available but will be enabled in future firmware updates now this is a
big thing that popcorn hour does is they do support their products for a very
long time they have huge user support as well as really good support from popcorn
hour so you can expect them to actually add the features that they say they're
going to add even if it's not feature complete when it ships so here we go
HDMI cable looks like a 6t HDMI cable it's sleeved looks quite nice then
you've got your ablea batteries here's your oh no those are AAA sorry AAA
batteries for the remote and then we've got a power cable so it's just your
standard PC three-prong power cable okay
nothing particularly interesting about that here is the RF antenna just like
that little guy okay and then next
inside here we've got four fan screws as
what they appear to be although they're probably or something else and then four other small screws which are threaded
for an optical drive so we can tell what that's for that's for the Blu-ray Drive
should you choose to install it now here's the remote the remote is quite a
bit more advanced looking even than the original popcorn hour remote which was
quite good it's got a bit of a glossy finish to it here and you can tell from
the from the way the buttons are yeah whatever you can tell from the buttons
that they are back lit so you'll be able to use this in the dark no problem so
that's it for the accessories let's get the popcorn hour it's s out of the
protective foamies here it's extremely well packed you can see we've got more
than an inch of foam around it on all sides so there's no way this thing is
going to get damaged in shipping okay here it is so this is
quite a bit bigger than the old popcorn hour this is like the size of well I
mean it's about the size of a Blu-ray player I guess so you put that right in
your home theater here so let's have a look at just what we can show here so
let's have a look at the front first you've got a hot swap Bay so that's
where you can install a 3 and 1/2 in hard drive if you want but you can also
see the border around here you can also take that whole thing out and install a
Blu-ray Drive here you've got your menu navigation from the front dim TV mode
two USB ports on the front power button as well as an LCD let's go around to the
side there you've got some ventilation for the hard drive all right and then
let's keep going around so here at the back here's where you plug in the RF
antenna for the remote here's where you can install what appears to be a 60 mm
fan it might be 40 mil it's hard to eyeball that I've got HDMI here's IR
then you've got digital audio out in both formats Optical and coax two more
USB ports Ethernet port s video
component as well as composite and then
you've got your power in it accepts either North American standard or
European Asian standard power and you've got your onoff switch so thank you for
checking out my unboxing of the popcorn hour and I think that based on that we
did a popcorn hour tech tips last time around I think this definitely deserves
a tech tips where let's have a look at the menu and just how well this thing
works cuz this is the Cadillac of network media players