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Old 11-13-2008, 09:54 AM   #1
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Old 11-13-2008, 09:56 AM   #2
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Old 11-13-2008, 09:58 AM   #3
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hey !! i thought we agreed, no more posting thinkgeek links ???? stop that right now !!!
You agreed. I don't remember me agreeing.
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Old 11-13-2008, 09:59 AM   #4
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Old 11-13-2008, 10:00 AM   #5
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Old 11-13-2008, 10:12 AM   #6
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I want an Popcorn A-110
Be careful what you wish for, Slite. I have a popcornhour A-110. It's sitting on the shelf. Big problems. 1. It converts anamorphic widescreen to 4x3 letterbox. The response from popcornhour was "use your TV zoom to expand it." Many (most?) TV's don't have a zoom for HD format. 2. Doesn't handle all WAV files. Ones with title information don't play. No workaround. (I maintain my audio in WAV files to retain as much of the original audio information as possible. Hard drives are cheap nowadays...)

and 3. Build quality is poor. when I turned mine off, I always got a big POP in the audio receiver. Something is not grounded properly in the hardware. I would have turned it in for repair/replacement except 1 and 2 made me put it in the scrap heap.
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Old 11-13-2008, 10:15 AM   #7
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Be careful what you wish for, Slite. I have a popcornhour A-110. It's sitting on the shelf. Big problems. 1. It converts anamorphic widescreen to 4x3 letterbox. The response from popcornhour was "use your TV zoom to expand it." Many (most?) TV's don't have a zoom for HD format. 2. Doesn't handle all WAV files. Ones with title information don't play. No workaround. (I maintain my audio in WAV files to retain as much of the original audio information as possible. Hard drives are cheap nowadays...)

and 3. Build quality is poor. when I turned mine off, I always got a big POP in the audio receiver. Something is not grounded properly in the hardware. I would have turned it in for repair/replacement except 1 and 2 made me put it in the scrap heap.
*sigh* Well, I'm not really surprised... It did sound too good to be true But it's just that my old Xbox gen 1 isn't really equipped to handle my media anymore. It's too slow. Oh well, guess I'll just have to wish for a HTPC instead
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Old 11-13-2008, 10:17 AM   #8
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i thought a popcorn A-110 was some fancy machine for making, ah, popcorn. shows what i know.
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Old 11-13-2008, 10:18 AM   #9
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i thought a popcorn A-110 was some fancy machine for making, ah, popcorn. shows what i know.
Well, I could live with one of those as well ... Warm popcorn to the friday night movie FTW!
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Old 11-13-2008, 10:20 AM   #10
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Well, I could live with one of those as well ... Warm popcorn to the friday night movie FTW!
you know, you can actually make popcorn in a really big pot on the stove. or in fact in the microwave. i googled it once and found literally dozens (possible hundreds) of methods / recipes, including more than one requiring only a paper sack and a microwave.

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Old 11-13-2008, 10:21 AM   #11
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*sigh* Well, I'm not really surprised... It did sound too good to be true But it's just that my old Xbox gen 1 isn't really equipped to handle my media anymore. It's too slow. Oh well, guess I'll just have to wish for a HTPC instead
Look at the bright side. I saved you from wasting some money....

Queen Zelda, there is a market out there for a media player that reads audio and video from USB 2.0 ports and plugs into a TV/home theatre. That way you can use a remote control to play media, instead of a keyboard to a computer. It's small, like the liseuse market. Like the e-ink liseuse, there isn't one that actually does the job right, yet. Popcorn hour is the latest company to offer one...And they do software updates, just like the e-ink liseuse makers, but the problems I mentioned they consider to be not fixable with their hardware...

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Old 11-13-2008, 10:24 AM   #12
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Yeah, right... a HTPC is WAY more expensive than an A-110, thanks alot man
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Old 11-13-2008, 10:25 AM   #13
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i thought a popcorn A-110 was some fancy machine for making, ah, popcorn. shows what i know.
It is. 110 is the caliber of the popcorn shells which explode inside the "A" (atomic) popcorn reactor. This particular model is best used outside in Am's back garden, next to her Burning Bra BBQ Pit.
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