Interview: Syabas and PopcornHour: media centres, mobiles and markets

Media centres are constantly evolving, offering web connectivity, new services and more ways of creating video jukeboxes. But what does the future hold, and what do the main players have planned for the months ahead? Our series of interviews hopes to answer these questions, and more besides.

To start with, we talked to the management of Syabas, the parent company of media centre manufacturer PopcornHour, which successfully drove the market forward at a time when growth was relatively static by developing incredibly flexible products.  For them, a media centre isn't a product that's fixed in time: it evolves, adding new features not just via firmware updates, but also with tools developed by users themselves.

The topics we covered include the new Flash-based interface, controlling your media centre with a mobile, the competition from HTPCs and what benefits web services can offer.

> Interview: Syabas & PopcornHour

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