Bart
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Thought I might guage interest on here, to see if anyone is interested in purchasing my popcorn hour C200.
Most people who use Geek day will already know enough about them, but for those who dont, its a meda player with built in hard drive and will stream videos accross the network.
I use it for the latter and thus only have an internal 60GB SSD, which I plan to leave inside.
It'll play just about every video, music and photo file format without any problems.
It'll quite happily streams 40-50gb blu ray rips accross my network without a single stutter or any problems.
PCH recently added bbc I player which ive also been using alot to watch video content, again problem free.
On ebay they're going for £200+ (most are £250+), I would probably sell on here for £150.
I think I still have the original box etc
any questions, please ask here or PM me.
Reason for selling is looking to purchase a newer model just realised which retails for £360.
This would be my 3rd popcorn hour media player (have upgraded with every new release), and there's a good reason why im not moving away from them
[Edited on 12-04-2012 by Bart]
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Toby
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when you looking at selling? Ive still got my A110 - still going strong 3 and half years down the line but might shift it on and look to upgrade
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John
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£360 could go towards a better TV with it all built in.
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Bart
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I have a 2.5k pioneer kuro.
would personally rather keep an amazing TV as just a TV and a standalone amazing media player as just a media player.
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Bart
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quote: Originally posted by Toby
when you looking at selling? Ive still got my A110 - still going strong 3 and half years down the line but might shift it on and look to upgrade
id like to sell within a week or so, people have been u2u'ing me though, i dont think it'll last long.
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jamied
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I have always fancied one of these but use my PS3 and ps3 media server at the mo and cant see what advantages it has?
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noshua
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Saves leaving your pc turned on if you're only ever watching on one TV - that's why I had a A110, no-one else in the house wanted to / had the equipment to stream content. I stuck a HD inside with all my films/tv on
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Bart
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quote: Originally posted by jamied
I have always fancied one of these but use my PS3 and ps3 media server at the mo and cant see what advantages it has?
Will also play higher def / better quality (higher bit rate) material as well.
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Bart
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Sold
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noshua
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Not surprised at that price
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Whittie
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Looking forward to playing with this tonight
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Jas
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wish I bought this now..
seen people on ebay selling them with blu ray drives etc
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Whittie
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Yeah, bought the DVD drive for it on Thurs from Scan, came friday.
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Jas
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dvd or blu ray? how much?
so...
is it just a unit that plays your hdd for you?
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Jas
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no i player itv netflix etc?
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Bart
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quote: Originally posted by Jas
dvd or blu ray? how much?
so...
is it just a unit that plays your hdd for you?
It will play from any connected device, i.e the internal Hard drive, a USB stick/External USB drive, network share (be it a NAS or shared folder on your PC).
I previously streamed from my NAS, but kept a small internal hard drive for the applications (such as BBC iplayer, youtube etc)
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Whittie
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quote: Originally posted by Jas
dvd or blu ray? how much?
so...
is it just a unit that plays your hdd for you?
Blu Ray - Was about £50-70, cant remember tbh.
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Toby
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wouldnt have bothered with the drive, would have got a 2.5" drive and and 3.5" drive.
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Bart
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quote: Originally posted by Toby
wouldnt have bothered with the drive, would have got a 2.5" drive and and 3.5" drive.
my only reason for using a rom drive is incase the misses has friends round and wants to watch a video not in my collection.
Our littleone had disney DVDS for xmas so its came in useful with that.
[Edited on 17-04-2012 by Bart]
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Whittie
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quote: Originally posted by Toby
wouldnt have bothered with the drive, would have got a 2.5" drive and and 3.5" drive.
All my films are over the network, which is in the basement, so no added noise needed. Plus I don't have a blu ray player, so nice to know I can play them.
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Toby
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fair enough, makes my point pretty redundant
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