EGreat's new EG-M34A Networked Media Tank (ie. Popcorn Hour) features all the power of an NMT and the low price and convenience of the Western Digital HD TV Media Player.

This is for sure the most inexpensive way to output 1080P .MKV's to your TV with DTS sound support.

This unit features HDMI 1.3, optical, composite, and component outputs, an Ethernet LAN port and 2 USB host ports.

Specifications

Hardware

* CPU:SIGMA DESIGNS SMP8635

* DDR DRAM :Hynix 64-bit 256MB

* External NOR Flash :Spansion 16-bit 32MB

* LANCHIP: REATEK RTL8201CP

* Audio D/A CHIP: AKM AK4420

* USB HOST: GENESYS GL850A

Video Output connectors:

* HDMI 1.3

* Component (Y/Pb/Pr)

* Composite

Audio Output connectors:

* Stereo

* SPDIF Digital audio output

Networking:

* Ethernet interface, 10-baseT/100-baseT

* Support USB WIFI,configue should be 802.11N

USB:

* USB 2.0 host 2 ports

HDD TypeF

SATA I/II HDD, up to 1.5TB

SATA interface outside support connecting with external hdd easily.

HDD FORMAT:

* EXT3

* NTFS/FAT32

Power on/off control by RC

* Add one MCUCthen it can realize power on/off by RC

Human Interface Device:

* Handheld remote (standard)

* USB keyboard (optional)

Media files supported

Video containers:

* MPEG1/2/4 Elementary (M1V, M2V, M4V)

* MPEG1/2 PS (M2P, MPG)

* MPEG2 Transport Stream (TS, TP, TRP, M2T, M2TS, MTS)

* VOB

* AVI, ASF, WMV

* Matroska (MKV)

* MOV (H.264), MP4, RMP4

Video codecs:

* XVID SD/HD

* MPEG-1

* MPEG-2 -MP@HL

* MPEG-4.2 - ASP@L5, 720p, 1-point GMC

* WMV9 -MP@HL

* H.264 -BP@L3 ,MP@L4.0 ,HP@L4.0 ,HP@L4.1

* VC-1 -MP@HL ,AP@L3

Audio containers:

* AAC, M4A

* MPEG audio (MP1, MP2, MP3, MPA)

* WAV

* WMA

* FLAC

* OGG

Audio codecs:

* WMA, WMA Pro

* AAC

* MP1, MP2, MP3

* LPCM

* FLAC

* Vorbis

Audio pass through: DTS, AC3

Photo formats: JPEG, BMP, PNG, GIF

Other formats: ISO, IFO

Subtitle formats: SRT, SMI, SUB, SSA

OSD Language:

* English

* Chinese (GB2312,Big5)

* Russian

* Czechic

* Swedish

* Spanish

* Polish

* Portuguese

* Greece

* Dutch

* Turkish

* Germany

* Italian

* French

* Slovenia

Subtitle language: Thailand

Note:

Additional formats available in future firmware releases

Support recover from firmware update failure with fail safe kernel

NAS + Media Server feature:

Protocols:

* DLNA v1.0 compliance on CTT test tools v1.0.

* UPnP AV NMPR v2.1

File Upload support:

* Samba version 3.0.21 (home-use)

* FTP for Digital Signage (commercial)

Download services:

* Bit Torrent btpd v0.12

NAS Management system:

* HDD format

* HDD partition create, copy, pasted,delete

* File transfer

* Password protection, etc.

Proprietary server:

* myiHome Lite (detection by Networked Media Tank slim client with UPnP 1.0)

Media Player extender:

* Supports any other DLNA compliant devices

Playback feature support:

* Photo Album (JPEG) with the entire supported audio format as background music

* Internet Radio supporting Shoutcast server MP3 Internet Radio stream

* Playback control

- Play/Pause,

- Go to (seeking)

- Fast Forward/Rewind

- Slow Motion (MPEG-1 and MPEG-2 only)

* Audio and Video Play List supported

* MP3 playback with album art support

* proprietary server (e.g. myiHome Lite), allows playback on multiple platform

(Windows XP, Mac OS and Pocket PC) via an Internet browser.

Accessory packing

* Remote control x 1PCS

* Power adapter 12V/3A x 1PCS

* Power cable x 1pcs

* SATA convertor cable x 1pcs

* CD-R x 1pcs

* Screw bag x 1pcs