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this is exciting even I would say this is the popcorn our c200 this is the brand-new networked media tank from popcorn our these things just landed so we're finally shipping them so I'm really excited to be able to bring you this unboxing the first thing you might notice and I'll use a there is an external hard drive for size comparison this thing is huge the box is like way oversized I know because we had to air ship these things in to make sure that we had stock right away okay first of all let's have a look at the back so the chipset most important thing about the popcorn our it's using a sigma designs chipset so awesome so they haven't changed the design from that perspective they do have a full list well probably not a full list but an extensive list of all of the different media files that are supported all the video decoders all the audio containers all that good stuff all the web services so you can even do where was it you can even have a Usenet downloader on here so it does BitTorrent Usenet UPnP all that kind of connectivity Ethernet Gigabit now as opposed to the 10 100 that was on the old a 200 and Ra 100 110 one of those the old popcorn our oh you know what let's get this open because I'm kind of failing at reading the box there so open up the top just like this and then open up this side and open up these two sides and let's just flip it over and slide out the popcorn our C $200 one of the big changes they've made with the C 200 is that it now has support for an optical drive so what that means is you can actually install a blu-ray drive in the popcorn era now so first let's have a look at the Quick Start Guide so this is for setting up your C 200 shows you everything that should come with it which we'll have a look at in a minute so we don't need to talk about that too much shows who you want to connect the HDMI cable install the antenna for the RF remote control that's cool that it comes with an RF remote control the old one was infrared and it you know I mean infrared remotes are never perfect but this is non directional so you can use it when you're pointing it anywhere and then you just do the RF control matching to make sure that they are synced up awesome okay so let's we've got four accessories so you got kind of a brown paper bag like a lunch bag here and that has your accessories in it so here is your Quick Start Guide okay so it's about about yay big and it's giving you the basics of setting up your home server where you're gonna pull all of your network data off of to watch media on your popcorn our okay Oh some last-minute notes due to the short time to market some features may not be available but will be enabled in future firmware updates now this is a big thing that popcorn our does is they do support their products for a very long time they have huge user support as well as really good support from popcorn hours so you can expect them to actually add the features that they say they're gonna add even if it's not feature complete when it ships so here we go HDMI cable looks like a six foot HDMI cable its sleeve looks quite nice then you've got your double-a batteries here's your no no those are triple A's sorry triple-a batteries for the remote and then we've got a power cable so it's just your standard PC three prong power cable okay nothing's particularly interesting about that here is the RF antenna just like that little guy okay and then next inside here we've got four fan screws where I was what they appear to be although they're probably for something else and then for other small screws which are threaded for an optical drive so we can tell what that's for that's for the blu-ray drive should you choose to install it now here's the remote the remote is quite a bit more advanced looking even than the original popcorn our remote which was quite good it's got a bit of a glossy finish to it here and you can tell from the from the way the buttons are yeah whatever you can tell from the buttons that they are backlit so you'll be able to use this in the dark no problem so that's it for the accessories let's get the popcorn our itself out of the protective foam knees here it's extremely well packed you can see we've got more than an inch of foam around it on all sides so there's no way this thing's gonna get damaged in shipping here it is so this is quite a bit bigger than the old popcorn hour this is like the size of well I mean it's about the size of a blueberry planner I guess so you put that right in your home theater here so let's have a look at just what we can show here so let's have a look at the front first you've got a hot swap Bay so that's where you can install a three and a half inch hard drive if you want but you can also see the border around here you can also take that whole thing out and install a blu-ray drive here you've got your menu navigation from the front dim TV mode two USB ports on the front power button as well as an LCD just or round to the side there you've got some ventilation for the hard drive alright then let's keep going around so here at the back here's where you plug in the RF antenna for the remote here's where you can install what appears to be a 60 millimeter fan it might be 40 mil it's hard to eyeball that I've got HDMI here's IR then you've got digital audio out in both formats optical and coax 2 more USB ports Ethernet port s-video component as well as composite and then you've got your power in it accepts either north american standard or european asian standard power and you've got your on/off switch so thank you for checking out my unboxing of the popcorn hour and i think that based on that we did a popcorn hour tech tips last time around i think this definitely deserves a tech tips well let's have a look at the menu and just how well this thing works because this is the Cadillac of network media players