I have one of these, and just want to issue a warning to those who plan on buying one. If you are planning on playing back full dvd .iso's or MKV 720/1080p rips, you can forget wireless or SMB. You'll need to either install an internal IDE drive, use a USB 2.0 external, or stream via HTTP. Using any form of wireless, or SMB will certainly result in many dropped frames during intense scenes when the bitrate jumps. These will reach the max throughput of the Popcorn, at just over 40mbps.
“An engineer explained to us that hundreds of ear impressions were gathered in the name of research, and while each one obviously boasted its own unique shape and size, one single characteristic remained uniform across the board: the entrance into the ear canal is not a perfect circle, it's an oval.”
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I have one of these, and just want to issue a warning to those who plan on buying one. If you are planning on playing back full dvd .iso's or MKV 720/1080p rips, you can forget wireless or SMB. You'll need to either install an internal IDE drive, use a USB 2.0 external, or stream via HTTP. Using any form of wireless, or SMB will certainly result in many dropped frames during intense scenes when the bitrate jumps. These will reach the max throughput of the Popcorn, at just over 40mbps.
I'm not surprised. I plan to stream it over a wired connection or hook up a hard drive anyway.