Popcorn Hour B-110 Networked Media Tank (NMT)

The Popcorn Hour B-110 Baseline Home Theater Motherboard (HTMB) is designed with the AV enthusiast in mind. With support for HDMI 1.3a, optical and coaxial S/PDIF connectors ensures that the user will not be lacking in connectivity options to their AV Receiver/TV. HD Audio pass-through is support for DTS HD-HR, DTS HD-MA, Dolby Digital Plus and Dolby TrueHD.

On the hardware and network side, the B-110 Baseline HTMB sports 4xUSB2.0 host ports, 2xSATA, 1xIDE, 10/100 Ethernet and mini-PCI WiFi support (WiFi card not included). It's mini-ITX form-factor allowing it to be placed in any compliant casing. Combined with the powerful features in the Networked Media Tank firmware, all these options ensure that the user has the flexibility to customize the device to their preference.

Popcorn Hour B-110 Baseline allows you to pull in digital video, audio and photos from various sources for your enjoyment on your HDTV or Home Theater setup.

You can stream or playback your digital media content from a variety of sources, such as your PC, NAS, digital camera, USB mass storage devices (Flash drive, HDD, DVD drive) ,  internal SATA or IDE HDD* and even directly from the Internet via the Media Service Portal.

It also serves as a NAS and a BitTorrent peer-to-peer downloader** to eliminate the need to switch on a PC or other device for this purpose.

The Popcorn Hour B-110 Baseline supports the latest high bitrate video formats (MPEG2 MP@HL, H.264 HP@L4.1, VC-1 AP@L3 in TS of at least 40Mbps) to give you up to 1080p high-definition videos.

In recognition of advances in Internet TV, the B-110 Baseline supports peer-to-peer Internet TV streaming technology from SayaTV, as well as popular unicast internet TV such as YouTube, Revision 3 and Vuze via the Media Service Portal.

The B-110 Baseline firmware is upgradeable to support future media containers, codecs and features.

* HDD not included    
** An internal HDD is required for these functions.

Specification :

Connectivity

• Bonjour
• UPnP SSDP
• UPnP AV
• Windows Media Connect
• Windows Media Player NSS
• SMB
• NFS
• HTTP servers: myiHome, WizD, SwissCenter, MSP Portal, Llink, GB-PVR
• BitTorrent P2P
• NAS access : SMB, NFS, FTP

Web services

• Video : YouTube, Veoh, Videocast, DLTV, Cranky Geeks, Bliptv, PodfinderUK, Vuze, Break Podcast, Revision 3, CNN The Larry King Podcast, CNN Anderson Cooper 360, The CNN Daily, CNN In Case You Missed It , NBC Meet The Press, NBC Today, CBS Face the Nation, NBC Nightly News, Mevio
• Audio : Live365 Radio, iPodcast, Radiobox, ABC News, BBC Podcast, CNN News , Indiefeed, Jamendo
• Photo : Flickr, Picasaweb
• RSS feed : Bloglines, Yahoo! Weather, Yahoo Traffic Alerts, Traffic Condition, Cinecast, Yahoo! News, MSNBC News
• Peer-to-peer TV : SayaTV
• Internet Radio : Shoutcast

Media files supported

• Video containers:
  • MPEG1/2/4 Elementary (M1V, M2V, M4V)
  • MPEG1/2 PS (M2P, MPG)
  • MPEG2 Transport Stream (TS, TP, TRP, M2T, M2TS, MTS)
  • VOB
  • AVI, ASF, WMV
  • Matroska (MKV)
  • MOV (H.264), MP4, RMP4
• Video codecs:
  • XVID SD/HD
  • MPEG-1
  • MPEG-2
    • MP@HL
  • MPEG-4.2
    • ASP@L5, 720p, 1-point GMC
  • WMV9
    • MP@HL
  • H.264
    • BP@L3
    • MP@L4.0
    • HP@L4.0
    • HP@L4.1
  • VC-1
    • MP@HL
    • AP@L3
• Audio containers:
  • AAC, M4A
  • MPEG audio (MP1, MP2, MP3, MPA)
  • WAV
  • WMA
  • FLAC
  • OGG
• Audio codecs:
  • Dolby Digital
  • DTS
  • WMA, WMA Pro
  • AAC
  • MP1, MP2, MP3
  • LPCM
  • FLAC
  • Vorbis
• Audio pass through : DTS, Dolby Digital, DTS-HD MA, DTS-HD HR, Dolby True HD, Dolby Digital Plus
• Photo formats : JPEG, BMP, PNG, GIF
• Other formats:  ISO, IFO
• Subtitle formats : SRT, SMI, SUB, SSA

DRM

• Cardea DRM (WMDRM-ND)

Chipset

• Sigma Designs SMP8635

Memory

• 256MB DDR SDRAM, 32MB Flash

Audio/Video outputs

• HDMI v1.3a (up to 1080p)
• Component Video (up to 1080p)
• S-Video
• Composite Video
• Analog Stereo Audio
• S/PDIF Optical + Coaxial Digital Audio

Interface

• 4x USB 2.0 host
• 2x SATA
• 1x IDE
• Mini PCI slot for WiFi

Others

• Mini ITX form factor
• Real time clock
• External IR receiver

Network

• Ethernet 10/100

Package Content

• Popcorn Hour B-110 Baseline (Motherboard)
• 1.5M length HDMI cable
• Remote Control with 2 "AAA" batteries
• External IR receiver
• 2x SATA cable
• 1x IDE cable
• Back panel (166.25mm x 51.7mm x 0.4mm)
• Quick start guide

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