Archive | July, 2007
Storage Central Turbo SC101T: Netgear Releases New Storage Solution
Netgear has released the long anticipated Storage Central Turbo SC101T, which offers expandable network storage. Having enough storage to for all your digital media is an important part of any media center, especially with the demands of HD video. The SC101T can handle two SATA hard drives of just about any size. From the Netgear […]
Continue reading...My Movies 2.31: Access Ripped HD-DVD and Blu-Ray Movies
9. July 2007
One thing that makes media center computers different than Tivo or a cable box is the ability to archive all your DVDs on a hard drive. My Movies is a well-known plugin for Vista Media Center that catalogs your ripped movies and downlaods associated meta data from your movie files. Accessing your movies through the […]
Continue reading...Weekly Round-up: Portable Video
8. July 2007
This week’s version of the Weekly Round-up focuses on portable video. With the release of the iPhone (and its steep pricetag that has caused some people to take up begging), the ability to take your content with you is being advertised like crazy. I personally think the OQO Model 2 is a great way to […]
Continue reading...Eos Wireless Ipod Speakers | Digital Audio for the Whole House
7. July 2007
Eos is the world’s first digital wireless, multi-room audio system for iPod. The Eos system broadcasts CD quality sound throughout the home, to up to 4 individual wireless stereo receivers. From the Eos website: The unique design of the 2.1 wireless satellite stereo speaker allows for mounting directly on a wall power outlet independently, without […]
Continue reading...Samsung BDP-UP5000 Dual-Format Blu-ray/HD DVD Player Available this Fall
6. July 2007
One quick way to end the high definition DVD format war is to offer a drive that plays both HD-DVDs and Blu-ray. LG has already shipped such a drive, which is available on HP’s m8010y media centers for about $500 extra. It looks like amsung is going to offer a similar dual format drive, albeit […]
Continue reading...Digeo’s Moxi DVRs Are Competition for Tivo and Vista Media Center
4. July 2007
Digeo is scheduled to release two DVRs this fall as retail products, after years of selling products to Cable companies. Now that CableCards are a requirement in most set top boxes, it will be nice to have some choices to replace the standard cable box. Right now the only options are Tivo and Vista Media […]
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10. July 2007
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