One solution is to plug it into my desktop PC and watch it from there. But the experience is different from watching it in a small screen monitor as compared to watching it on a widescreen HDTV. Then came the Popcorn Hour to mind.
I have been thinking of getting one of these before Christmas, but there was no compelling reason at the time to get one. But yesterday was a different day, I finally decided to get one.
I got the bare A-110T, no HDD installed. I was surprised when I opened the box and found an HDMI cable with it. Most hardware I bought almost always, didn't come with a cable with it. I have to buy one. But this time, the only thing missing in the box was the HDD, which I got from a PC Express near our place. I got myself a SEAGATE 500GB SATA HD. The capacity is a test one, to see if I will be able to fill it up with media content.
The Popcorn Hour is a very simple device. Inside, there's a small board, it's so small that it didn't even occupy the whole area of the unit. Made me wonder how it can process the upscaling of the videos/media that is thrown it's way. When I got home, I plugged in the HDD in the unit, screw the cover back, plugged in the HDMI cable (from the HDTV), and plugged it into the power socket.
Then there it was, the home screen, giving me options on the media in the unit, web services and settings. I reformatted the HDD, downloaded the NMT apps, and I started to fiddle around the functions on the remote control. The fist badside I noticed was the lack of a User Manual. Good thing I am technologically inclined, but how about those who's going to get one that is on the late side of the techie world?
In short, I was able to figure out how to directly download to the internal HDD, locate the Popcorn Hour in my network and transferred files to it.
I haven't put it in it's paces but hopefully in the coming days, I can spend more time with it and perhaps this site will be able to help those that are looking for knowledge about the device as well.
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