[Movie_Man]

Marshall, As many have said, thanks for the great review. A couple of questions for you. Up until now I had been considering the SageTV, STX-HD 100. My goal is to find a top notch option for playing Video_TS files from my PC. I don't really need the place shifting ability that SageTV provides, but it is an added bonus. I'm curious if you have or plan to do a review of this device.

The A-100 seems to do the #1 priority of playing back video extremely well. However, I would like a device that provides me with the ability to playback music and possibly play lists (not sure if the STX-HD 100 does this well either). Have you heard if the Popcorn Hour will improve upon this in the future? (I know there are other extender type devices that do this well, but none that I know of that playback video_ts files. Also, have you or anyone else on the forum for that matter heard if the folks over at the Popcorn Hour are going to be coming up with a more slick GUI. I agree with you that a smooth playback experience and being able to chose what formats you want to use rather than "Steve" choosing for you is paramount. However, I would like to see the addition of cover art rather than scrolling through dozens if not hundreds of file names. Has anyone heard whether this will be a possible feature in future firmware?