Meet The Popcorn Hour Networked Media Tank
What is Popcorn Hour?
The Popcorn Hour Networked Media Tank is opening up a new era in digital entertainment by breaking down the technological walls between TV and home theater systems on the one hand, and PCs and the Internet on the other. As DVD movies and Internet video have become increasingly popular, digital entertainment enthusiasts have searched for a way to make the rich media content stored on their PC hard drives and home networks available through their TV. Popcorn Hour is the answer.
The Hardware
Popcorn Hour is the world's most advanced Networked Media Tank. Also called a digital media player, Popcorn Hour is designed to support the fullest array of digital content standards and file formats. This means you can use your Popcorn Hour to play:
- The latest high-def DVD and Blu-ray movies
- Windows Media, Xvid, H.264 and QuickTime Internet videos
- All kinds of digital photos
- MP3 music files and stored CD music files.
Popcorn Hour also incorporates a media server application, so you can broadcast content over your local network or share it over the Internet.
The Content
The Popcorn Hour Networked Media Tank integrates with the Popcorn Hour Media Service Portal online to give you access to streaming video and audio from an enormous number of digital content providers.
- Video from Blip.tv, podcasts and news from MediaFly, ABC, NBC and the BBC
- Photos and images from Picasa, Flickr and Photobucket
- Music from thousands of Internet radio stations and music stores
But there's so much more—Popcorn Hour even has a digital content downloading capability built right in, so the sky's the limit as to what kinds of content you can access online*.
The Accessories
Popcorn Hour has a built in adapter for an optional hard drive, which potentially expands the device's capabilities for archiving your movie, video and music collections. Popcorn Hour also offers the WN-100 wifi adapter, which makes it easy to create a wireless bridge between a remote PC or your home network and your Popcorn Hour-connected TV. Utilizing the latest in wireless networking technology, the WN-100 provides fast, secure and reliable room-to-room connections for live streaming rich media.
