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The key to perfect cinema is Popcorn!

In what follows, we will test what happens if we initiate playback from the remaining two types of physical storage, hard disk, or flash drive.

Hard disk playback

For the duration of our test, we were able to obtain a 500GB Samsung F1 SATA2 HDD courtesy of Qwerty, which we also installed in the NMT A-110. After formatting and installing and configuring the NMT system (this can be downloaded from the manufacturer's website, copied to a flash drive, and Popcorn will automatically do the rest after issuing the instructions), the repository is ready for operation and is displayed. Media source list. Before attempting the DVD, we copied the DL DVD to the hard drive rambo 4 1080p MKV, so he became the test subject for this phase.

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Although unfortunately the pictures do not convey the point here either (streaks are not seen live, it is the product of our camera), we got at least the same quality image (under the same conditions) as Star Wars III in the case of.

Let's look at INFO button for details:

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Captioning:

Now come a very important feature that has not been discussed in detail so far. Based on Popcorn’s production so far, we weren’t afraid we should run into negative experiences right here. Located on the bottom of the remote switch SUBTLE button to conjure up customizable options, which are time offset; subtitle on and off, at the same time selecting the language; the color scheme; size and position. Between each option, SUBTLE can be selected by pressing the button again, the values ​​can be changed with the right and left parts of the four-way controller.

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Example of a base and a varied caption:

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Play from USB

Playback from flash-based storage is now a standard feature. The operation is simple, it is practically the same as the experience of a DVD-ROM connected via USB, so we connect the flash drive to one of the USB ports of the device, which Popcorn acknowledges with a message, after which the storage is already displayed. Media source list.

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Flash pencil for our trial is an average 2GB Kingston pen and a Rescue Me we pulled the tenth episode of the third season out of the hat. We also looked at how the A-110 relates to separate file (srt) subtitle handling. The result was what we expected, the captioning worked perfectly, with the same variation options as for the burn-in version.

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