Syabas, makers of the popular Popcorn Hour A-110, have announced the Popcorn C-200, an Internet set-top box that streams digital content from the Internet or its internal hard drive to your television set and home stereo. One of its new features is the ability to add a Blu-ray drive with full support for Blu-ray navigation and Blu-ray Live.
Like its predecessor, the Popcorn Hour A-110, the C-200 streams news and entertainment content from a number video partner sites such as YouTube, Vuze, Revision 3, CNET TV, Veoh, Blip.tv, NBC, CBS, CNN and BBC and Internet radio sites, such as Radio box and Live365 Radio. Additionally, the C-200 can stream still image content from Flickr, Pikeo and Picasa. It is run by the Sigma Designs chip SMP8642.
Additional new features of the C-200 include:
- A redesigned external shell, which helps the unit better integrate into existing entertainment component stacks
- Wireless RF remote control
- An LCD display for quickly searching, streaming and/or downloading content, which is useful when listening to music without having the TV on
- A gigabit Ethernet connection for lightning-fast file transfers
- A front-loading drive bay that can be used to install a hard drive for storing and playing back downloaded content
- The ability to add a Blu-ray drive with full support for Blu-ray navigation and Blu-ray Live
- AVC HD format and navigation for displaying home video content from AVC format HD cameras
The Popcorn C-200 is expected to be available in July for $299 from www.popcornhour.com.