25dec/100

New firmware update for PopcornHour A-110

Yes!!!! Never before was I so excited about a firmware update... This one might even be the best christmas present this year. Funny thing is they incidentally released it just for christmas so they couldn't have chosen a better time. Now I sure there are a lot of you out there that bought a PopcornHour A-110. In fact looking to my site analytics I know a lot of you have tweaked your A-110 NMT so you can control it with your iPhone or Android smartphone.

Release notes firmware update PopcornHour A-110

So what do you get with this new firmware. Well........ finally some proper .MKV file support! I'm sure you experienced the hick ups when playing a 1080p full HD movie. It almost made me buy a new NMT. Luckily that is problem of the past. I've updated my PopcornHour A-110 NMT this morning and tested it with Avatar from which I new had really annoying hick ups and I'm glad to announce that because of this firmware update all MKV full HD files are now played flawlessly!!! That's right FLAWLESSLY!!! This update puts this ragged 2 year old NMT right at the top with the other players. Ok I might be exaggerating a bit but where do you get to see such good support on products. On the other hand why did it took so long for them to fix this major issue? Ohh well... all is fine now so you guys better fire up your download machines for some real good 1080p movies.

I'm sure you all know how to update your A-110 if not check this site which has also more info on the firmware update it self.

Check out the release notes if you want see what else got fixed or improved:

Release Date : 23 December 2010

Firmware Version : 01-17-101217-15-POP-403-000

1. Still same NMT apps 00-17-091216-15-POP-403 2. NTFS driver update, now supporting NTFS write 3. Added support for mkv prepend compression for h264 tracks 4. Extended unicode string support for Hebrew Right-To-Left. 5. Fixes for music Now Playing screen - Cover art image now is up to 2MB. Otherwise default image is shown - Fixed issue with image containing EXIF - Scale down large image when necessary for proper display. 6. Fixed ID3 parser byte-skipping error that caused long delay when music playback. 7. Added shuffle feature on music playback (all types of audio files) - Use Repeat key to toggle - only for music playback - does not work on UPnP or myiHome, works for SMB/NFS 8. Fixed issue where Infobar is cleared when play next file in a playlist. 9. Fix for WiFi issue: WPA-PSK / WPA2PSK[TKIP+AES] connection failure 10. Reset subtitle settings when doing factory reset. 11. Minor modification to IDX/SUB rendering 12. Minor tweak for MKV DTS drop out issue.