media streaming
Peripherals
Netgear RangeMax WNR3500L Wireless-N Router Packs A Punch
3:40AM Sean Fallon | If you haven’t upgraded to wireless-N yet, now is a great time. The spec is finally ratified and Netgear is celebrating by dropping the WNR3500L with USB networking and pre-loaded Linux for open source tinkerers. More »
Gadgets
5:20AM Sean Fallon | Taking cues from devices like the Chumby, Squeezebox and HP’s DreamScreen, Pure is throwing a kitchen sink full of features into their new Sensia radio—including Wi-Fi, DAB and FM support, a 5.7-inch touchscreen and plenty of popular widgets. More »
Sensia Wi-Fi Radio Has Touchscreen, Twitter, Facebook
5:20AM Sean Fallon | Taking cues from devices like the Chumby, Squeezebox and HP’s DreamScreen, Pure is throwing a kitchen sink full of features into their new Sensia radio—including Wi-Fi, DAB and FM support, a 5.7-inch touchscreen and plenty of popular widgets. More »
Hardware
LaCie’s LaCinema HD Media Streamers Can Play and Record
8:00AM Sean Fallon | LaCie has updated their LaCinema HD media streamer lineup with the new Play and Record models. As the names imply, the former can playback media while the latter can also function as an HD DVR. More »
Software
XBMC ‘Atlantis’ Beta 1 Now Available
5:40AM Sean Fallon | The folks behind XBMC, the cross-platform media streaming solution, have announced that the first beta version (dubbed “Atlantis) of their media centre has gone live on all platforms: Linux, Mac OS X, Windows, and Xbox. The first things users will notice is the new skin “PM3.HD”—a high-definition tribute to Project Mayhem III. The announcement also includes “XBMC Live,” a bootable CD which gives users the opportunity to try XBMC without installing it on their hard drive (can also be booted from flash drives). Finally, XBMC for Mac now has initial support for integrating iTunes and iPhoto media. The final release of Atlantis is slated for October. More »
Gadgets
Samsung MediaLive Streams Windows Media to Televisions
12:47AM Mark Wilson | We first saw it back at CES branded as the Samsung Home Digital Media Adapter. Now it’s been rebranded as MediaLive. Essentially a media streamer, the Samsung MediaLive connects to televisions via HDMI and can stream A/V from Windows systems including AC3, H.264, JPEG, MPEG2, MPEG4, WMA, and WMV over LAN or Wi-Fi (up to the fast “n” standard). It also offers a direct internet connection to various services like MovieLink, XM Radio, and FOX Sports. Look for it this August for US$200.
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NEC Lui WiMax Media Streaming System Gets Release Date, Price
6:38PM Gizmodo US Edition | We alerted you to NEC’s fancy media-streaming home server last year: it’s an “on demand” system that’ll send your media content to Lui devices around your home and beyond. NEC has just stumped up the release schedule and pricing in Japan, and “Life with Ubiquitous Integrated solutions” systems isn’t cheap. The pocket sized player and laptop-like device are around US$495 and US$890, while the desktop PC will be US$2,100. Topping it all off, the main home server costs a whopping US$3,700. If you’re in Japan and like the idea of accessing your audio and video remotely using dedicated devices, it’s available from April 24th. We don’t have timings on a US release. [AV Watch]
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Popcorn Hour A-100 Networked Media Streamer Reviewed (Verdict: Admirable, But Buggy)
6:46AM Jason Chen | NMT’s Popcorn Hour network streamer looks great on paper (YouTube/Google Streaming, DVD Image playback, XviD, MPEG4, and even BitTorrent client support), but how does it actually perform? Quite well, says Networking Audio Video dot com, but with a few very annoying bugs. More »
Entertainment
Popcorn Hour Does Just About Anything a Set-Top Media Streamer Can Do
4:06AM Adam Frucci | The Popcorn Hour is a surprisingly robust little network media streamer that does pretty much everything you could want a set-top box to do. In addition to streaming from your home network, attached USB storage or the internet, you can set it up to download torrents directly to an attached hard drive. More »
Entertainment
Vudu Update Brings 80 More HD Movie Titles, Other Goodies
7:35PM Haroon Malik | The Vudu software has just been updated to version 1.2, and with it comes 80 new HD titles for rent. The new additions will be in the price range of US$3.99 – $5.99, but the upgrade will also bring added functionality, including instant HD, (an indicator that alerts the user broadband speeds are high enough for HD content downloads); speed limit adjustment control, (user definable bandwidth limits and recommendations based on the imposed limit) and a constant audio setting for high-end audio equipment compatibility. In addition the UI will also get a slight re-work. Apple TV, are you scared? Not even a little? [Vudu Forum via TV Snob] More »
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