Ditto to Dave, I was really excited about media extenders until the popcorn hour cam out. For those on a budget or who need a flashy UI, then the Media extender makes sense at sub$100. For those who need ultimate power and flexibility, and are willing to sacrifice a pretty UI, it's Popcorn Hour all the way.
Hey Marshall do you have any inside info on when a new upgraded model will come out ? i love my A-100 .. But i do not want to get the A-110 if a A-200 (or whatever name it will have) will come out soon
@Jon: If you keep waiting for new PCHs you are probably not going to be seeing much in at least the next year... A-110 has basically every requested feature people have wanted (SATA, DTS, Optical, USB Master/Slave, etc) and there really isn't all that much to be desired hardware side.
My upgrade from my A-100 will be to Boxee on a used/refurb Mac Mini/linux htpc when it matures enough to be a somewhat stable media player. Boxee has a bunch of problems it needs to iron out but the development pace on Boxee is faster than basically every product on the market. I just haven't found it to be stable enough and there is no real universal remote capabilities to make it worth a full switch.
But yeah, don't expect anything more hardware-wise out of PCH, they just need to get their act together on the firmware side.
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Marshall @ Mar 27th 2009 1:56PM
Ditto to Dave, I was really excited about media extenders until the popcorn hour cam out. For those on a budget or who need a flashy UI, then the Media extender makes sense at sub$100. For those who need ultimate power and flexibility, and are willing to sacrifice a pretty UI, it's Popcorn Hour all the way.
Jon @ Mar 27th 2009 2:59PM
Hey Marshall do you have any inside info on when a new upgraded model will come out ? i love my A-100 .. But i do not want to get the A-110 if a A-200 (or whatever name it will have) will come out soon
Nick Catalano @ Mar 28th 2009 6:58AM
@Jon: If you keep waiting for new PCHs you are probably not going to be seeing much in at least the next year... A-110 has basically every requested feature people have wanted (SATA, DTS, Optical, USB Master/Slave, etc) and there really isn't all that much to be desired hardware side.
My upgrade from my A-100 will be to Boxee on a used/refurb Mac Mini/linux htpc when it matures enough to be a somewhat stable media player. Boxee has a bunch of problems it needs to iron out but the development pace on Boxee is faster than basically every product on the market. I just haven't found it to be stable enough and there is no real universal remote capabilities to make it worth a full switch.
But yeah, don't expect anything more hardware-wise out of PCH, they just need to get their act together on the firmware side.
Marshall @ Mar 28th 2009 7:42PM
I don't have any inside info, but I'd concur with Nick.