Free Product Giveaway: Popcorn Hour C-200 Networked Media Streamer

[Update. David Boyll from San Francisco was the winner of the Popcorn unit. Thanks to all those who entered.] The nice folks over at Syabas Technology sent me one of their new Popcorn Hour C-200 networked media streamer units for me to review, but with the Streaming Media West show next month, I won't have a chance to do a product review anytime soon. CNET UK and Engadget did reviews of the Popcorn unit already so check out their sites for some more details.

While the fact I won't have time to review it is bad news for me, it's good news for one of you. Syabas has given me permission to give the Popcorn unit it away for free to a reader of my blog. All you have to do is leave one comment on this post with your real name and a valid e-mail address. I'll pick one user at random on October 26th and I'll even cover the shipping cost to the winner.

Thanks again to Syabas for the gear and the giveaway!

Comments

[Mayhew Cuthbertson]

Very nice looking machine, love to have one.

[cables]

I own a PCH A-110 and love it - I even replaced my HTPC with a similar Syabas-powered NMT device. That said, I consider myself fairly tech-savvy.

[Thomas]

Hello Dan, Thank you for your past reviews and the opportunity for this entry.

[brian]

Dan, thanks for the heads up on this box -- had not heard of it, but am happy to take it off your hands and send you my impression :-)

[Mike Poupore]

I was going to buy one of these for a project I am working on, so please include me in the draw.

[Roger Parks]

Add me to the mailing list

There are quite a few competing units using the same chipset, but this is the only one that allows a Blu-Ray player to be installed into it.

What would make it the ultimate NETWORKED MEDIA PLAYER is the inclusion of a DVB-T card slot. USB may well be able to be used, but we all know how taxing on the CPU that is, that's good rendering cycles being eaten by the USB!

Many of these units have 10/100 network connection - but my reading is that that connection cannot be used from your PC into the Web-page management feature. So to load files into it you either sit next to it with a USB drive or let it go out onto the internet and get its own.
It has a P2P client, but does it have extra P2P software something like PeerGuardian?

[Jason Hatchett]

Hello Dan,

Thanks for passing on the perks that your position provides.

I hope it gets passed my way.

Hope that your schedule isn't to hectic...

[Sid Gray]

Hi Dan,

Please include me on your list. Popcorn sounds interesting.

///Sid

[Michael]

I love your blog. You have a lot of great insight into the working of internet video. You're insider access is a great resource. Keep up the good work!

[Neil Macker]

I want! Thanks for the giveaway offer.

[Prashant Sachdev]

i am visiting US at right time! would love to have this for onion.tv india office :) we would use this for testing our product with streaming videos from this unit.

[John Daniels]

Oh wow! Props to you for giving away a Popcorn Hour. I'd love to have something to stream my media to my new panasonic plasma!

[Shaun C.]

I'll pop in my entry if its not too late!
I need a streamer for my media collection.

[Lars]

Would love to win the Popcor Hour!

[Doug C]

Perfect timing!

[james]

pick me! pick me!
i'd love to get my hands on one of these

[Nick Matyas]

It is a good posting. I like it. It's pretty much impressive.

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