Daily Archives August 13, 2014

Aug 13, 2014 11:48 pm / Posted by Diana Joan | Categories: Blu-ray

Popcorn Hour has come up with a new media box. The Popcorn Hour A-400 is one of the company’s dinkiest boxes yet. It’s designed to occupy as small a footprint as possible, giving you more room to spare under your TV. With up-to-date 7.1 audio system you can get up to DTS-HD and Dolby TrueHD 7.1 audio output, as the A-400 boxes can pass-through original Blu-ray HD audio to AV receiver for decoding.

However, few people have luck with Blu-ray subtitles when playing ripped Blu-ray movies with a Popcorn Hour A-400. This is because the Blu-ray .sup subtitles is not a supported format for PCH A-400. Blu-ray Discs use PGS encoded .sup subtitles. PGS is graphical image subtitles totally different with the text based subtitles (e.g. srt), and must be played in a different way...

Aug 13, 2014 09:58 am / Posted by Diana Joan | Categories: Hot Topics

Sony is just a couple of weeks away from its event at IFA in Berlin, and the rumors continue to spike on what to expect. We’ve heard details of a Sony Xperia Z3 Compact in the works, along with a Sony Xperia tablet also in plans, but the hottest rumors fall around the flagship Xperia Z3, and today we get a couple of extra rumors that give the reported specifications some credibility.

GFXBench has already published the specifications of the Sony Xperia Z3, and these all match the existing rumors on what we can expect. We’re talking about a 5.15-inch 1080p display, a Qualcomm Snapdragon 801 processor (2.4 GHz quad-core Krait 400 CPU and Adreno 330 graphics), 3GB of RAM, 16GB of internal storage, a 20.7 megapixel Exmor RS rear camera and a 2.1MP front-facing camera...