Popcorn Hour A-110 review

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January 8, 2009

Posted by: mdstein

"Not that good, really"

What I like:

The promise and concept

What I don't like:

THe actual working conditions

Review:

While in theory this box professes to provide all that one could want in a home system yet unfortunately it fails to deliver. When connected a local USB hard drive or internal hard drive the popcorn hour will work as directed. However the moment you try to use a NAS (Network Attached Storage) the popcorn hour stutter and slows to the point of almost one frame a second. One might think this could be attributed with network congestion or network speeds, except it was connected on a gigabit port (more than most home users have) and compared with any home computer connected over wireless network. Wireless network worked flawlessly yet popcorn hour failed to deliver.

If you think that this might be something that you can work with tech support think again. Requesting tech support takes between 36-48 hours before replies are sent and then another 48 hours for each additional step. A give conversation lasts several weeks before any progress can be made. While a novelty product stick with the name brands for now.