Popcorn Hour A100

This morning my popcorn hour A100 arrived, that I bought on ebay for almost nothing.

I have high expectation of this player. A lot of positive review on the internet about it.
Pro:
-A lot of formats
-Network shares
-Hard disk can be build in.
-HD
-Easy to use
-USB
-Bittorrent client
Contra:
-Slow interface
-Slow network connections
-Very slow to transfer from the internal disk

After searching for some cables to connect it. I played with it.
It is looking nice. Good interface, not so slow. But Because my tv only has a DVI interface I needed a other way to have sound it cost me time to get sound. And even now it is not perfect yet, I will need to spend more time on this.

Later on I do some more testing.

Linksys Kiss DP-1600

Some more playing with the linksys.

It is not so bad. Only had problems with a few files to play. HD stuff I have will not play without converting, something I will not do. But the solution for this can be media servers like Tversity, that can convert on the file. Will test this later on. But in general I like it. The dvd player is good.

You also find some media sharing software like freekiss on internet the make sharing of the files easier then the default software of Linksys. I also did some test with wireshark to see how the linksys is communicating with the software and it is looking easy. So later on I will try to create some thing to do the sharing myself. When it is done, or started, I will publish the software some where.

The negative point about the linksys is support of the linksys it self. This is very poor. No new firmware sins a will now. And there are still a few bug to solve. Also missing a timer on the player.

Bedroom and other stuff

Still didn't had the time to put some more photos on-line. But it will happen soon.

Today we redo soon things in the bedroom of our son. Because of the problem in fase 2 of the attic, don't ask, we had to put new lighting. So we went and bought 1 in the form of a moon:and because it was his first week of school we also install a normal bed inside his room.
Hoping he will love it...

Because we, my girlfriend and me, went to get the lamp she bought something for the kitchen to and I had to install.
But the result is better then is was.