" War."

" Last week I was telling you where we're gonna start it is more set top media players do reviews on them. This week -- out less well he probably never heard that but we bet you haven't heard of the popcorn hour C 200 networked media tank mr. Herron. Has his take on it so set top box what in the most generic sense what is it."

" Well in this case it's eight decoder for a variety of audio and video formats that are out there right now all the popular formats you run into on the web plus -- Common formats you run into things like dvd and Blu-ray media audio formats this box can basically because that get in your home theater setup. So it's not gonna dues you know apple two -- him into an idea of apple T lead product you know. You know something if lock down the designee Steven pretty much anything it open is. Fair game totally and most -- to the -- the way now I have this connected via HDMI right to a television and the setup was fairly simple in terms of just getting it set up. There's an RF remote. One of my favorite things that's the default option with the -- Actually comes of the remote that you don't have to point -- anything that's really nice that sells for 200 dollar or 300 dollars for that set up. -- Twelve more bucks he want in the -- support as well it includes a different remote as well and it was the -- would you want that remote to also control your television you're probably gonna spend the extra tool box exactly -- a pretty reasonable -- or twenty something like the harmony remote universal -- to control devices well. Now it comes with no internal storage so they'd leave that up to you in terms how you -- outfit this device. Right now I have an SE theater because in front -- literally just slides in their please don't take it out right now but it. -- It is we can pop it out as soon as we thought about it simple it literally just slides in close you don't even have to open it up. However if you do crack the lid on it you will find another SAT port in there you can add a second drive. Now there wasn't exactly spot -- but there was room to kind of just put it in there hold that in. -- In this case also has four double stick tape rules the world. Now the other nice thing is its support of optical media and in this case you have to use an external drive enclosure and that's what we have on top here in this case get a dvd drive and also sports supposedly Blu-ray drives but. Of the 3-D V of the three optical drive we have -- on the opposite number Blu-ray somebody to -- Somebody stole Patrick's drive if you got back yet but. Anyway that was fairly -- basically adding to drive and adds to the interface which you see right behind us. Now one of the cool things just getting it online once that's done you can immediately utilize some of those on one functions in this case. They have what they call their media portal service. And it -- that up real quick. It brings up. Standard media feeds that you get from around the web including things like YouTube and Flickr and of course Revision 3 one quick thing. For the people out there who are doing HD video content for the web like we are. One thing I really appreciate it in the evaporated -- gotta love that any of the episodes every and it's too there's a word right -- is large that's the format type for the video just scrolling up and down with the amount. I -- speech fever in the small version. Whatever you like -- hit the button and play. And -- deeply this small versions and plasma that I didn't play. And it will go to online find that video and start playing it of course we get the black screen until then. It's like offering for just about everything you do it doesn't take too long and it's fairly seamless once it starts. -- that's the Internet side of it and of course there's also customizable RSS -- and other types of media you can you can subscribe to manually. There's there's services you can sign -- but let me jump back to mean any real quick here one but -- right back it's really nice. Under set up the device built into once you have the hard drive. Part having a hard drive for this device is really key because that enables the device than to go online and download a suite of utilities from -- our website and that gives this thing. Additional functionality I think a lot of people really can't get get a good taste for -- we don't set up real quick. And what they call is that network media tank applications. Specifically things like a universal plug and play -- server. Another home server ftp servers on the support. And at best server up Tor client connections of the subsidy case pulling down your streams automatically configure it through a browser. As well to use my client that I found some of those were really and especially the saw the support that just gives you access. From your -- your windows PC going to drag and drop files right into the hard drive on here cool now they claim this that's a Gigabit ethernet connection on about my own testing I found that. I was never getting anything faster than 100 megabit speeds in terms of transfers. Still pretty good for musical what did you routers and no I haven't -- 655 with Gigabit switches and Gigabit from the computer to the port of Ottawa to tech upset. But but I was a -- to start transference -- multi gigabyte files like. Dvd files you believe that would be huge video off the hectic at its forward -- I'm not sure that can be corrected or not or maybe it was something on line I'll leave it -- that. Other cool things I have to say that and it's we are the are remotely hosted. We talked a lot about what this thing it's great that let me just quickly go down some of the -- that ran into one. It's in the hardware Wednesday's data so much as the software that drives at all I would say I I immediately get a firmware update. I immediately did a firmware update when I did this and I was going through some the codec support and things like FLAC support was missing. And the ability to stream certain files over my network from -- device that was supported. Now the claim that all these things have worked in previous devices that is all being worked on right now you're such a -- beta tester. And also. The network reports -- talked about but. Overall I have to say. Mike the performance of justifies it with large amounts files was relatively good. Now I defeated a folder say it's a single folder containing about 7700 pictures while that bucket down. It took about about seven and a half seconds to go between different pages in terms of that but in its ability to deal with large amounts folders and files mixed together. It was snappy I was really surprised at how much I never felt like this thing I was waiting very long --"

" Happen on -- good -- some of -- set top boxes we've seen over the last couple years they have sort of the firmware of doom or maybe whatever comes from the chip manufacturer. And you would sit there you would hit next and then eventually the menu would open so anything that snappy on a set top box is especially it totally is."

" As with most players of course I have some photos and here you can always do stuff likes slide shows and what. He hit the button you have. Full control of what you want to happen as far as a slide shows ago -- in terms of transitions -- along with the photos to -- he -- background music including Internet radio streaming while you're doing -- slide shows as well if you have a completely -- folder with 7000 files inside of it like you missed it again I don't believe index that or suggest a bad idea on how it did it but it was when -- you have to go back to the previous page -- so it does index it and -- the -- infinitely faster access the next time now would -- did that. However it's just expected this fish. Thumbs up thumbs down all of firfer 300 bucks its ability to go through the content -- already on and get it into my living room. It's working really well on that it would enhance my mom not yet its current edition documentation needs to get stepped up. But products beat functionalities there so any -- and Kodak except for -- and some other stuff and data. Dvd will test the Blu-ray by next week that's a whole lot of functionality. It's."

" War."

" Last week I was telling you where we're gonna start it is more set top media players do reviews on them. This week -- out less well he probably never heard that but we bet you haven't heard of the popcorn hour C 200 networked media tank mr. Herron. Has his take on it so set top box what in the most generic sense what is it."

" Well in this case it's eight decoder for a variety of audio and video formats that are out there right now all the popular formats you run into on the web plus -- Common formats you run into things like dvd and Blu-ray media audio formats this box can basically because that get in your home theater setup. So it's not gonna dues you know apple two -- him into an idea of apple T lead product you know. You know something if lock down the designee Steven pretty much anything it open is. Fair game totally and most -- to the -- the way now I have this connected via HDMI right to a television and the setup was fairly simple in terms of just getting it set up. There's an RF remote. One of my favorite things that's the default option with the -- Actually comes of the remote that you don't have to point -- anything that's really nice that sells for 200 dollar or 300 dollars for that set up. -- Twelve more bucks he want in the -- support as well it includes a different remote as well and it was the -- would you want that remote to also control your television you're probably gonna spend the extra tool box exactly -- a pretty reasonable -- or twenty something like the harmony remote universal -- to control devices well. Now it comes with no internal storage so they'd leave that up to you in terms how you -- outfit this device. Right now I have an SE theater because in front -- literally just slides in their please don't take it out right now but it. -- It is we can pop it out as soon as we thought about it simple it literally just slides in close you don't even have to open it up. However if you do crack the lid on it you will find another SAT port in there you can add a second drive. Now there wasn't exactly spot -- but there was room to kind of just put it in there hold that in. -- In this case also has four double stick tape rules the world. Now the other nice thing is its support of optical media and in this case you have to use an external drive enclosure and that's what we have on top here in this case get a dvd drive and also sports supposedly Blu-ray drives but. Of the 3-D V of the three optical drive we have -- on the opposite number Blu-ray somebody to -- Somebody stole Patrick's drive if you got back yet but. Anyway that was fairly -- basically adding to drive and adds to the interface which you see right behind us. Now one of the cool things just getting it online once that's done you can immediately utilize some of those on one functions in this case. They have what they call their media portal service. And it -- that up real quick. It brings up. Standard media feeds that you get from around the web including things like YouTube and Flickr and of course Revision 3 one quick thing. For the people out there who are doing HD video content for the web like we are. One thing I really appreciate it in the evaporated -- gotta love that any of the episodes every and it's too there's a word right -- is large that's the format type for the video just scrolling up and down with the amount. I -- speech fever in the small version. Whatever you like -- hit the button and play. And -- deeply this small versions and plasma that I didn't play. And it will go to online find that video and start playing it of course we get the black screen until then. It's like offering for just about everything you do it doesn't take too long and it's fairly seamless once it starts. -- that's the Internet side of it and of course there's also customizable RSS -- and other types of media you can you can subscribe to manually. There's there's services you can sign -- but let me jump back to mean any real quick here one but -- right back it's really nice. Under set up the device built into once you have the hard drive. Part having a hard drive for this device is really key because that enables the device than to go online and download a suite of utilities from -- our website and that gives this thing. Additional functionality I think a lot of people really can't get get a good taste for -- we don't set up real quick. And what they call is that network media tank applications. Specifically things like a universal plug and play -- server. Another home server ftp servers on the support. And at best server up Tor client connections of the subsidy case pulling down your streams automatically configure it through a browser. As well to use my client that I found some of those were really and especially the saw the support that just gives you access. From your -- your windows PC going to drag and drop files right into the hard drive on here cool now they claim this that's a Gigabit ethernet connection on about my own testing I found that. I was never getting anything faster than 100 megabit speeds in terms of transfers. Still pretty good for musical what did you routers and no I haven't -- 655 with Gigabit switches and Gigabit from the computer to the port of Ottawa to tech upset. But but I was a -- to start transference -- multi gigabyte files like. Dvd files you believe that would be huge video off the hectic at its forward -- I'm not sure that can be corrected or not or maybe it was something on line I'll leave it -- that. Other cool things I have to say that and it's we are the are remotely hosted. We talked a lot about what this thing it's great that let me just quickly go down some of the -- that ran into one. It's in the hardware Wednesday's data so much as the software that drives at all I would say I I immediately get a firmware update. I immediately did a firmware update when I did this and I was going through some the codec support and things like FLAC support was missing. And the ability to stream certain files over my network from -- device that was supported. Now the claim that all these things have worked in previous devices that is all being worked on right now you're such a -- beta tester. And also. The network reports -- talked about but. Overall I have to say. Mike the performance of justifies it with large amounts files was relatively good. Now I defeated a folder say it's a single folder containing about 7700 pictures while that bucket down. It took about about seven and a half seconds to go between different pages in terms of that but in its ability to deal with large amounts folders and files mixed together. It was snappy I was really surprised at how much I never felt like this thing I was waiting very long --"

" Happen on -- good -- some of -- set top boxes we've seen over the last couple years they have sort of the firmware of doom or maybe whatever comes from the chip manufacturer. And you would sit there you would hit next and then eventually the menu would open so anything that snappy on a set top box is especially it totally is."

" As with most players of course I have some photos and here you can always do stuff likes slide shows and what. He hit the button you have. Full control of what you want to happen as far as a slide shows ago -- in terms of transitions -- along with the photos to -- he -- background music including Internet radio streaming while you're doing -- slide shows as well if you have a completely -- folder with 7000 files inside of it like you missed it again I don't believe index that or suggest a bad idea on how it did it but it was when -- you have to go back to the previous page -- so it does index it and -- the -- infinitely faster access the next time now would -- did that. However it's just expected this fish. Thumbs up thumbs down all of firfer 300 bucks its ability to go through the content -- already on and get it into my living room. It's working really well on that it would enhance my mom not yet its current edition documentation needs to get stepped up. But products beat functionalities there so any -- and Kodak except for -- and some other stuff and data. Dvd will test the Blu-ray by next week that's a whole lot of functionality. It's."