March 2007 Archives

Mar 20, 2007

Stream your Zune tunes with Radio Zune

Posted by Mike Evans in Audio, MP3 Players No comments

Microsoft’s Zune already has Wi-Fi, but sharing your tunes with it has been hobbled due to its Digital Wrongs Rights software.
Despite Microsoft banging on about sharing your tunes and videos with your mates, the reality is that you can transfer the file to your mates easily, but they can only play it 3 [...]




Mar 19, 2007

Slackers make iPods obsolete

Posted by Mike Evans in Audio, MP3 Players No comments

iPods, Zunes and all you other MP3 players, tremble in your owners’ pockets. New start-up Broadband Instruments has a new offering that makes all existing Personal Media Players look so last century!
Broadband Instruments have launched Slacker, which offers a new take on the PMP market. The Slacker Media Player looks at first glance [...]




Mar 17, 2007

CeBIT 2007: Watch your wireless TV in the shower

Posted by Mike Evans in CeBIT 2007, Events, Miscellaneous, Video and TV No comments

Looking for the award for daftest gadget of CeBIT is Nu, with their, er, new wireless TV. OK so wireless TV’s aren’t at all daft - but waterproof ones are! One simple word…why?!
[Source: TechDigest]




Mar 17, 2007

CeBIT 2007: Video of the reborn Commodore’s new Gravel PMPs

Posted by Mike Evans in CeBIT 2007, Events, Portable Gadgets No comments

Commodore, the long-dead home computer company, has risen phoenix-like at CeBIT 2007, and surprised us all with not one but three new Personal Media Players. Called the Commodore Gravel, each device is designed for different use.
There’s the Gravel Personal, which is your traditional PMP with some tasty features; the Gravel In-Car, featuring [...]




Mar 17, 2007

Is the Asus A33 the world’s loudest Media Center?

Posted by Mike Evans in CeBIT 2007, Events, Media Center No comments

Asus have been showing off the Asus A33 media center at CeBIT 2007. The A33 is a glorious looking device that’s been designed to fit in nicely with your high end Hi-Fi system.
Not that you’d need such a system - the Asus A33 comes packed with a 500W amplifier and can pump out [...]




Mar 16, 2007

Pegasus Cynalynx Media Streamer from Barbados

Posted by Mike Evans in Media Receiver No comments

The Pegasus Cynalynx (now that’s what I call a name!) is a new media receiver that wirelessly streams all your music, pics and films from your PC onto your HDTV. So far, so like every other media receiver. The Pegasus Cynalynx has two tricks up its sleeve, though.
Firstly, it can stream content [...]




Mar 15, 2007

LG J10HD Chocolate Home Cinema System

Posted by Mike Evans in Home Cinema, LG No comments

In love your with your LG Chocolate phone, but wished it was a little bigger, and its MP3 player a little beefier? Then check out the LG J10HD Home Cinema, which adopts the same glorious style of LG’s famous designer phone, and adds a 150W sub-woofer, two 75W speakers, 80GB hard disk and DV player. [...]




Mar 15, 2007

CeBIT 2007: LinkSys KiSS 1600 media receiver adds DVD player

Posted by Mike Evans in LinkSys, LinkSys KiSS 1600, Media Receiver, Video and TV, Wi-Fi No comments

It’s CeBIT time, and LinkSys have been showing off their new LinkSys KiSS 1600 WMP media receiver (why don’t these media receiver companies give their products some decent names?!). Following hot on the heels of NetGear’s Digital Entertainer HD, the KiSS 1600 is another media receiver that connects to your PC wirelessly, indexes all [...]




Mar 14, 2007

NetGear Digital Entertainer HD - the media streaming holy grail

Posted by Mike Evans in DLNA, Media Receiver, Netgear No comments

Netgear have released the nattily-titled Netgear Digital Entertainer HD EVA8000. First unveiled at CES2007 a month or so ago, the Netgear Digital Entertainer is a media receiver that could be the holy grail for all streaming media fanatics.
Not only can the Digital Entertainer stream digital content form PCs and Macs, it’ll also stream YouTube [...]




Mar 1, 2007

Pioneer Music.tap pipes audio over power lines

Posted by Mike Evans in Audio, Pioneer No comments

Pioneer have announced the Pioneer Music.tap, a new audio system that lets you pipe your music from your HiFi to speakers over the power lines. The main audio system is separate from the speakers,as you’d expect, but rather than connecting the two together via old-fashioned speaker wire, or even new technologies such as WiFi [...]