Filed under: HDTV, Home Entertainment
2Wire’s announced a 7-inch square set-top box designed to “bridge television and the internet.” Called MediaPoint, it seems to be nearly identical to every media streamer we’ve seen — it will multitask as a digital media player that delivers HD video and access streaming media on your home network via broadband. The box will boast HDMI ouput, WiFi, USB expansion, UPnP and DLNA compatibility. Sounds unbelievably enticing, right? Well, unlike most media streamers, you’ll have to buy MediaPoint through a broadband service provider which will distribute the boxes under their own branding, and you’ll presumably have to pay a subscription fee — hopefully so you can enjoy some WWE Raw. Wow! So a product that’s pretty much the same as a bunch of things that already exist, but we get to deal with a cable / internet service provider? Sounds fun, where do we sign up? They’re expected to be available “very soon” though there’s no word on pricing plans for the box or the subscriptions.
[Via Electronista]
2Wire’s MediaPoint HD streamer box is special just like everybody else originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 11 Nov 2008 07:01:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Filed under: Peripherals
Do you see them? Command and option keys instead of the Windows and alt keys. That’s right, Logitech is doing the Mac community another solid with the introduction of its wireless diNovo Keyboard for Mac users. Exactly like its $100 PC version with 3-year battery only better ’cause it’s for Macs… right?
Logitech’s diNovo gets right with the Mac community and thus, the Lord originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 11 Nov 2008 06:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Filed under: HDTV, Home Entertainment
It looks like Mvix USA, a company known for their
media streamers, has really pulled out all the stops with their new NAS. The MvixBOX has two drive bays (1.5TB SATA HDDs not included), Windows file sharing, an RSS client, a Bit Torrent client, telnet and secure SMTP. If that isn’t enough, it’s also an FTP server, an Apache web server (with MySQL, SQlife and PHP pre-installed) and features Mvix’s RapidBox functionality (their version of RapidShare file hosting). This all might be a bit much for the typical consumer, but for the small business (or hardcore torrent-head) the device could replace an entire server. Just expect a sharp decline in productivity when your SQL programmer realizes he can watch Battlestar Galactica on the thing.
MvixBOX media server: 2TB of web-enabled, media streaming goodness originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 28 Oct 2008 10:56:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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