| PopBox Media Player |  | Brand: popbox
Category: CE
Buy New: $129.99
as of 9/10/2010 12:44 CDT details
Seller: Amazon.com
Rating:  64 reviews
Color: Black
Media: Electronics
Batteries Included: Yes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1
Dimensions (in): 6 x 8 x 1.4
MPN: Syabas popbox
Model: Syabas popbox
UPC: 892002002126
EAN: 0892002002126
ASIN: B003BYRQNQ
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| Features:
| • | Stunning HD Video: Displays the best HD quality on your HDTV via HDMI / Component Video outputs and extensive codec support. | | • | Simple and affordable to play all the movies, home videos, photos, and music stored on your home PC on your HDTV | | • | Simple and Easy to Setup and Operate | | • | Enjoy the Best of Internet Movies, Videos, Sports, and More | | • | An Unbeatable Price: No one else offers this many features for one low price with no monthly fees! |
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Product Description
The PopBox makes it simple and affordable to play all the movies, home videos, photos, and music stored on your home PC/network as well as streamed from the Internet on your HDTV! With PopBox you can finally give your HDTV what its been hungering for - all the best sports, entertainment, movies, videos, and music the Internet has to offer, PLUS an incredibly simple way to play all of your own stored movies, home videos, pictures and music on your HDTV sets and home theater system. Why watch things that were meant for the big screen on a computer monitor when you and your family can enjoy it all in any room of your house on your HDTV? With PopBox connected to your HDTV suddenly everything can go big screen! And we've made sure to make setup automated and simple - just hook the PopBox up to your Internet connection and it does the rest!
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Showing reviews 1-5 of 64
 PopBox Review September 9, 2010
CraigReview
0 out of 3 found this review helpful
Mine works great, I think that it depends on what you are using it for. I wanted mine to be able to basically act as a DVR for Movies. I have about 280 movies loaded on this and close to half are Blue Ray. However, I am almost out of space even with 2 Terrabits of storage.
This is what I put together for my system:
1) D-Link DNS-321 Diskless System 2-Bay Network Storage Enclosure
2) Seagate Barracuda LP ST32000542AS 2TB 5900 RPM 32MB Cache SATA 3.0Gb/s 3.5" Hard Drive -Bare Drive
My 2 neighbors have the same system and have had no problems as well. (okay they helped me to set up he hard drive and Network as I am not that technical) But the Popbox was the easy part. My kids can easily turn it on and watch what ever movie they want. Also has Internet (still waiting for Netflix). The Movies with titles pull right up and it works just like a DVR, also the FF/RW speeds are now 16X. Not bad but could be faster.
 Loads of potential, doesn't deliver now. September 3, 2010
D. Morrison (Prattville, AL USA)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
I feel sorry for this device, but it is going back. It froze playing approximately 75% of my videos. The interface frequently leaves you in a black-screen limbo with no way forwards or backwards without powering down the box. You can't power down the box without unplugging it (not too hard because the plug fits very shallowly into the socket on the back of the device.) When the PopBox works, it work just OK. Response time can be very laggy and awkward working through large filelists. The network functionality (wired to router, bridged 802.11N to Linux Samba fileserver) worked great and it worked well connecting to the Internet for firmware updates. The unit was pathetic playing Yahoo videos (video would freeze up and audio would continue with a static image at the point it froze.) For an example of this, search "swedish popcorn" and play the first video (Muppets Swedish Chef making Popcorn Shrimp). The humorous disclaimer at the beginning of the video plays fine, but when the video should start the audio continues and there is no video, just the image of the disclaimer. My Sony BluRay player plays this same video fine. There seem to be some third-party utilities to mess around with the database on the SD card to get everything just so...
Product is obviously unfinished... September 2, 2010
Roman W Mitz Jr.
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I really wanted to like this product, but the interface was very much unfinished, and buffering was inadequate for dealing with wireless networks. Had I known in the first place that the "included wireless" was a little dongle, I never would have bought the wireless version. There are better options now, including the other products from this company.
Fail. August 31, 2010
T. D Laedtke (Oak Park, IL)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
Epic Fail.
Pretty graphics on boot up. Makes you excited.
Until you find out that most things don't work. The "apps" are stupid and really don't add anything to the overall experience.
Music playback - while the music does indeed play, it only plays one track at a time. Why would anyone want this?
Video - well, it will play, once you figure out the kludge of attaching your network shares via the crappy UI.
Firmware Updates? Well, all but one have failed in online automated mode, but you can go to a computer, download the image file, copy it to a thumb drive, and then upload it manually to the box. Super.
100% unhappy.
I wouldn't call this beta software - maybe early alpha August 27, 2010
Adam Petryk (Wenham, MA)
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
Unfortunately while the product holds out a lot of promise it isn't there yet - by a long shot.
Clunky, slow UI
Videos stop & stutter depending on codec
Youtube freezes for me regularly
Network setup a chore
Media library not well organized
etc.
Buyer beware
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