Media Player Advise?

[axion]

Im looking into getting a media player in the next month or so..

I would need it to have HDMI, Support an Internal or External HD 1TB+ atleast, and preferably be able to be networked to my PC for easy transfers of bluray movie files to either the hd for the media player, or simply played straight from one of my pc's hd's..

I was looking at a popcorn hour, and this seems to do what I want. Does anyone have one that can explain exactly what it will or will not do? Any other suggestions would be awesome as well!

 

[Patranus]

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16883108321

 

[Destiny]

Im looking into getting a media player in the next month or so..

I would need it to have HDMI, Support an Internal or External HD 1TB+ atleast, and preferably be able to be networked to my PC for easy transfers of bluray movie files to either the hd for the media player, or simply played straight from one of my pc's hd's..

I was looking at a popcorn hour, and this seems to do what I want. Does anyone have one that can explain exactly what it will or will not do? Any other suggestions would be awesome as well!

What is your budget?

Are you looking for one to play blu-ray ISOs with menus or blu-ray ISOs without menus? If you want to a media player to playback Blu-Ray ISOs WITH menus you will be looking to spend $250+ for one.

I have both the Popcorn A-200 and Nixeus Fusion HD with both being able to play Blu-Ray ISOs (without menu). The Nixeus media player has an eSATA port for fast file transfers to an internal HDD... they both have USB 2.0 client for file transfers. Both can be networked and transfer files via ethernet cable and wireless-N.

Nixeus Fusion HD with wireless-N adapter included, 2 year RMA Warranty support in USA:
http://www.amazon.com/Nixeus-NX-1000...4650579&sr=8-1

Popcorn A-200 (wireless-N not included), 1 year RMA Warrenty support in Singapore and China:
http://www.amazon.com/Popcorn-Hour-N...4650626&sr=1-1

Popcorn A-210 (is exactly the same as the A-200 but with aluminum casing)

 

[cmdrdredd]

Have you considered a HTPC? It can play any format you can create, unlimited storage options and obviously network capable. If your budget allows for it, I'd go that route.

 

[Claudius-07]

I have a slew of them from the Seagate Theater+ to WD Live, to the HDX-1000 (which has the same internals as a Popcorn 200 me thinks). Also built a HTPC. At the end of the day I installed XBMC on the HTPC and it's been the best. It will play my BluRay rips just not with the DTS-MA or DD-THD... either drops to DTS or for DD-THD I have to have a secondary audio format stored.

The HDX-1000 passes the DTS-MA and DD-THD to my reciever just fine.. thus for those rips I use that, otherwise the XBMC is the way to go. If the HDX-1000 did not some really annoying issues, I would have stuck with that.