CMI's SYVIO-200 HD media streamer gets a hint (or three) from Popcorn Hour

by Darren Murph posted Aug 18th 2008 at 10:55PM

Take this as a compliment, Popcorn Hour. Your product has gained so much recognition and acclaim that a Chinese outfit dubbed CMI has shamelessly knocked it off. To be fair, the design isn't exactly the same, but it's close enough for us to understand where the SYVIO-200 got its inspiration. The HD media streamer pretty much mimics the A-100 in every meaningful way, though it does include the very beneficial HDMI 1.3 specification. You'll find oodles of media streaming capabilities as well as NAS / BitTorrent support, though your guess is as good as ours as to whether it'll ever find a US distributor. For the record, we're guessing "no."

[Via eHomeUpgrade]

Filed under: Media streamers

Tags: china, chinese, CMI, hd media streamer, hd streaming, HdMediaStreamer, hdmi 1.3, Hdmi1.3, HDP00, HdStreaming, media streamer, MediaStreamer, stream, streaming, SYVIO-200

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mikejonas @ Aug 19th 2008 12:35AM

LOL--they even neglected to replace the "A-100" on a couple of the bullet points on their blurb on the CMI site:

"*The SYVIO-200 supports the latest high bitrate video formats (MPEG2 MP@HL, H.264 HP@L4.1, VC-1 AP@L3 in TS of at least 40Mbps) to give you up to 1080p high-definition videos
*In recognition of advances in Internet TV, the A-100 supports peer-to-peer Internet TV streaming technology from SayaTV, as well as popular unicast Internet TV such as YouTube, Google video and metacafe via the media service portal
*The A-100 firmware is upgradeable to support future media containers, codecs and features"

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