Tag: Media Distribution/Extenders

I do recall the insanely expensive Kaleidescape servers of yore, however, a much less expensive unit from Kalediescape has made its way onto the market. Most Media Servers are Media Center clones with a fancy case (which I don't mind myself) but Kalediescape is built from the ground up using a custom OS. Control can be acomplished via an adnvanced […]

It looks like Slinbox has a competitor in the hardware placeshifting market. The HAVA Wireless hardware takes your TV signals and allows it to stream to any broadband connected PC. As you will see from the article quote below, HAVA appears to have a lot of improvements over the Slingbox including multiple viewers, built in wireless, MCE compatability and will […]

Hardware Zone has a review up of a very interesting music streaming center from Phillips. Looking at the specs, it appears to have the perfect blend of stand alone capabilities and connected capabilities. It is able to take songs from your PC, and rip and tag CDs from its internal databse on the fly.  From the article:  Although the WACS700 […]

At a tiny 12.7 millimeteres in height, Toshiba's HD DVD drive laptops is pretty dang small. However, they have packed a ton of format compatibility into the system. All the way from HD DVD down to CD-RW. From the article: Meet Toshiba's slim HD DVD optical drive for laptops. Perhaps already spotted in Samsung's M55, the SD-L902A measures a mere […]

I am always very skeptical when a company claims great networking performance over powerlines. As we have found out in the past, the only way to achieve these lofty goals is to have the components networked in the same room. The new spec is supposed to be much more resistant from interference from other household products. There is nothing worse […]

Slinbox recently introduced a new line up of tuners and placeshifters to the general public and now it looks they are going to release a client for Palm OS. With this final OS supported, you would be able to placeshift your content to just about any portable device out there. From the article:  Right now, you can use a Silngbox […]

Taking a cue from PC's, the Niles IntelliControl Multiroom Audio system is a 12 channel/6 Zone expandable audio distribution system. It uses cards to expand its functionality. Of course an iPod expansion card is available and other systems such as XM, line level inputs and traditional FM/AM radio are all available. Wisely, Niles has chosen Cat-5 cable for signals and […]

Sage has made a big big deal over their cheap branded Hauppauge Media Extender. It is a pretty good deal (around a $100 per TV) to distribute TV through out your house. Wanting to get into the action, the folks at Snapstream have published a guide on how to use BeyondTV and the same Media Extender Sage uses. I would […]

Whilst browsing over at Automated Home, I noticed a press release about a new product from Niles Audio. They announced a new range of Audio and Video baluns. They pretty have ever audio video standard covered including digital audio, component HD, and VGA. Lacking from the product line is HDMI, but I imagine there is bandwidth constraints for 1080p video. […]