Tag: media centre
Acer Revo 100 brings slim networking chic to your living room
If you're looking for a nettop box as sleek as the flatscreen you're planning on pairing it with, take a look at Acer's latest offering, the Revo 100. Stylishly slim, the Revo 100 can sti vertically or horizontally by…
Air Keyboard – the latest wireless solution from Firebox
The Air Keyboard, a tiny wireless keyboard ideal for the living room, is now for sale from Firebox. The Air Keyboard connects to your device of choice via a wireless USB dongle. Fully compatible with PCs, media centres and even…
Medion launches Akoya P8610 18" media centre notebook
Medion, the mid-range laptop producer who sell great machines at surprisingly low prices, yesterday announced the Akoya P8610 at Dolby’s sound laboratories in deepest darkest Soho. It’s a whopping 18.4″ beast of a machine, with Blu-ray drive, and some awesome Dolby sound-enhancing technology. Let’s take a look in more detail.
The aforementioned 18.4″ screen runs at 1,680 x 945 resolution, which the astute among you will recognise as 16:9 aspect ratio. The Dolby audio system will happily output in 5.1 surround, or alternatively you can use the surround virtualisation filter on a stereo signal to make it sound like it’s a surround source, either on a speaker system or on headphones.
Harman Kardon brings DMC 1000 media centre to the UK
Harman Kardon has announced that its DMC 1000 media centre is now available in the UK.
The DMC 1000 incorporates a 250GB hard drive and will happily consume all your CDs to create a digital jukebox, as well as featuring a DVD player and optional iPod connection…
The $25,000 ITC One entertainment home warehouse adds Blu-ray support
It’s unlikely many of you are in the market for an ITC One, what with the gigantic SE2 Labs home entertainment solution costing about as much as a small Korean family hatchback.
The ITC One’s around the size of two PC cases, and already contains an Xbox 360, Wii, HD PVR, surround sound amp and processor, plus an iPod dock because every new electrical product launched
Microsoft begins limited Internet TV offering
The SciFi blog has reported that a number of Windows Vista Home Premium and Ultimate users have received a Media Centre software upgrade which gives them access to a beta version of Microsoft Internet TV. It offers a selection…
Wii gets X-OOM Media Centre to stream music, films and photos via Wi-Fi
Nintendo hasn’t exactly pushed Wii as a multimedia machine, preferring to focus on the gaming aspects first and foremost. But other companies have a different idea. X-OOM Software has just unveiled its X-OOM Media Centre product, which lets you stream music, movies and photos to your Wii from your PC, using Wi-Fi.
Hauppage launch WinTV HVR-3000 triple tuner hybrid TV card
TV tuner cards for PCs and Macs are becoming quite popular now, and the latest trend seems to be to pack extra tuners onto the cards yet keep the price the same. Here I am feeling jealous – with…
