Typical price: £185
What is it: Media streamer capable of delivering 1080p video from your computer to a TV
What we think: The A-110 doesn't represent a massive leap forward from the A-100, but every change is worthwhile and adds to the overall package
Average user rating
6.3
good
Average user rating from 4 users
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Popcorn Hour A-110 user reviews
April 3, 2009
Posted by: rml
"Cooler than a polar bear in a refrigerator"
What I like:
Streams ANYTHING with no jitter whatsoever.
What I don't like:
No "up folder" function.
Review:
Having read teh last review that says it cannot stream from a PC I felt I had to write this.
It streams from a PC no problem at all. No jitter whatsoever. Not a single frame lost. I have mine connected into a Gigabit switch, not that it matters cause the port on the A110 is only 100 megabit. Plays all the normal containers, including the best at the moment, .MKV. It even plays Blu Ray m2t files (17GB for 1.5 hours of movie = average of 30Mb/s) with no problems whatsoever. Absolutely Beautiful.
Browsing the Contents of my PC is really easy and quick (the front end is obviously a web app in a portalised browser running on linux). very slick. It's just missing an 'up folder' button. So you have to use the back button. Bit of a pain if you have paged forward 10 pages of titles. It even has a search button, so you can type in part of the name of a title and it'll show you what matches this on your PC.
If you want to watch your DVD collection that you have backed up on your PC, buy one now!
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