Archive for November, 2007
Lumina leaps to high-def
Elonex's LCD-impersonating Media Center, the Lumina, has a sequel. And this one's sporting that all-important HD Ready badge
Media centres have used many a design trick to try and get in our lounges, but the Elonex Lumina's ‘I'm just an LCD' card is up there with the best. Well, now its sequel's here with something equally […]
Evesham exhibits joie de Viiv
Beat harder, thy still heart, Evesham's upgraded E-Box Media Center has something to shout about. And, because that something is the new Viiv digital entertainment platform, it's going to make Intel very happy indeed
The inclusion of Intel's new Viiv platform makes the Evesham E-Box more exciting than it might initially appear. Plus, when people ask […]
Iomega's telly hard drives
Fancy dipping your digital toe into the whole Media Center malarkey without the £1k price tag? Cast your peepers over this neat remote control hard drive
Gadget-heads that we are, we dig the idea of Media Center and Front Row. What we don't love is the Regent Street price tag on the computers that go with […]
Microsoft's personal TV guide
Can't decide which programme to watch? Don't worry, Microsoft's new Media Center TV service knows exactly what you're after
At CES this year Bill Gates talked of a new era for the indecisive telly addict - Live.com TV recommendations. The new interactive service, which is currently in the pipeline, lets you rate the programs you watch […]
Media Centers get ready for 360
That Media Center PC you bought a year ago is finally going to be useful. Today it gets an update so it'll be able stream high-def video to the Xbox 360
Here's your chance to prove to your friends that you were right to take the plunge and buy a Media Center PC.Later today Microsoft's firing […]
Media Center takes centre stage
2005 Review ComputingMicrosoft has long been trying to put a PC in every living room. Finally, it's starting to happen
2005 Review ComputingThe story 2005 was not a vintage year for computing – there were no new processors, few significant operating system changes, and tablet PCs failed to go mainstream. Fortunately, media centre PCs were there […]
Philips enters Media Center game
Philips has come over all Media Center and built the MCP9350i, a lounge-friendly video streamer with a monstrous hard drive
Dutch trailblazer Philips has a vision of a ‘connected planet', where everyone is free to wirelessly access content anywhere in their homes. Some have called it a dreamer, but like the Lennon of electronics it's ploughed […]
Live from Berlin: Philips launches Media Center
Philips has announced the launch its first ever Media Center PC at the IFA technology show in Berlin – and it claims it has better video playback than any of its rivals
Throughout today Stuff will be reporting live from the IFA gadget show in BerlinPhilips has announced the launch its first ever Media Center PC […]
UMPCs to get special Media Extender software
For those of you still
scratching your heads over what exactly you might use a $700 UMPC
for, Microsoft is working on a version of Media
Center Extender software to allow you to touchscreen your way through TV, music, home automation, or whatever you
use your Media Center PC for. So far there's no date for when we might […]
PCzapper Media Center Extender, on the cheap
We're a little
short on details thanks to some obfuscated PR material, but this PCzapper TV Extender pretty much appears to be a
straight up Media Center Extender. The main
claim to fame is that it's going for "well below €100!" If the unit makes it to the States that means it
should go for less than $120, which […]
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