i LOVE this picture and am so inspired to keep the needles moving. The picture on my television set now is so clear! And so convenient in the living room!
Most of us will be happy with consumer-priced stock DVRs or TiVos. But for those who are looking for something better for the ego, Niveus has just revealed their updated media centres, the Rainier, Pro Series and Denali Limited Edition. All three lines support 8 CableCards and 10 Media Centre Extenders. The Rainier is modest, storing 1TB of data with no fans. The rack-mountable Pro Series continues the fanless trend and packs 4TB of storage, 32GB SSD, Intel Core i7 processor and Nvidia Series 9 graphics card (for when 1080P video just isn’t enough). The Denali Series (pictured) is similar to the Pro Series, but maxes at 2TB of storage to make room for a Blu-ray drive. These monster media centres will be available in Q4 2008.
The high end (read: super expensive) Niveus Storage Server and Storage Server Pro doesn’t just act as a file dump for your movies—any network attached storage can do that—it interfaces with much of your networked media equipment as well.
Branching out from their full-featured (read: Expensive) Media Centers, Niveus is introducing a Sierra Edition Media Server, which is also designed for the home-builder market. The Sierra, which is half the size of their normal units, also consumes “low power” and uses an HD DVD drive, 500GB storage, a GeForce “Series 8″, and 1080p streaming. It’ll be available in Q1 2008 for “volume integrators”, which means people who will be installing them in homes or other markets which you probably don’t qualify for buying this for yourself.
Our friends at Niveus, whose EDGE media centre extender was already seen back in September, tell us that the unit is finally shipping. It’s the first Windows MCE unit to receive the ISF Video Quality Certification, but does what other extenders do—stream live and recorded video, plus pictures, plus music from your Windows Vista or XP computer with Media Center. More »
The fourth and final MCE extender is by niveus is the best looking, has 3 USB ports which is two more than what you probably need for thumbdrive playback, and best of all passive cooling. The passive cooling, if it is like the type in the full sized Niveus Media Center PCs, it uses heatpipes that go from processor blocks to the finned, aluminium case that acts like a giant heatsink. It does not, unfortunately, have any wireless capabilities. At least it’s 1080p. [Niveus]
Hey home theater PC lovers! Those of you who are still waiting around for CableCARD-enabled machines in order to get high-def cable in your home theater setup don’t have to wait much longer, since these CC machines are finally shipping.
If you wanted to get a sneak peek at what you’re going to get with these systems, check out our exclusive first hands on with Niveus’s systems back in April. We’ll have more coverage on these soon as well. – Jason Chen
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Gallery [Gizmodo]
