Media Receiver

Aug 11, 2008

Want a Bluetooth MP3 player? Here are dozens…

Posted by Mike Evans in Bluetooth, Featured, Lists, MP3 Players, Manufacturer, Media Receiver, Portable Gadgets 3 comments

A Bluetooth MP3 player transforms the way you listen to your tunes, but finding a good one from the thousands of ordinary MP3 players on the market can take days of tedious research.
So we’ve done the hard work for you and compiled a list of the top Bluetooth MP3 players on the market today, together [...]




Aug 7, 2008

Why the Samsung MediaLive is a missed opportunity

Posted by Mike Evans in Featured, Media Receiver, Video and TV No comments

Media streaming from PC to TV could finally be making its way into more people’s homes thanks to the new Samsung MediaLive. The MediaLive lets you stream just about any content you like from your PC to your HDTV either wirelessly or via Ethernet. Movies, tunes and images can all be streamed regardless [...]




Jul 10, 2008

New Belkin FlyWire transmits 1080P wirelessly

Posted by Daniel in Coming Soon, HDTV, Home Cinema, Manufacturer, Media Receiver, Video and TV, Wi-Fi No comments
BelkinFlyWire

Yet another black box for your living room? Yes and no, this little beauty is Belkin’s new wireless transmitter and receiver, aka FlyWire. FlyWire can connect to all your devices without the need to install wiring, so no more climbing up ladders and ripping out bits of your house in an effort to connect everything [...]




Jun 28, 2008

Google’s latest application connects PC to TV

Posted by Daniel in Google, Media Center, Media Receiver, News, Technology, Video and TV, Wi-Fi No comments
Google Media Server

We all know that Google likes to have its fingers in all the pies, well they are now sticking their hands into an area of the home entertainment market coveted by Microsoft and Apple. Google really are taking no survivors; it would seem their company motto isn’t only “Don’t be evil” but also “World domination [...]




Jun 28, 2008

Reshape your pits to squeeze 42GB on a DVD

Posted by Daniel in Bluetooth, Media Receiver, Miscellaneous, News, Technology, Video and TV No comments
Reshape your pits

Japanese researchers have been hard at work fiddling with discs and they have come up with a way to multiply the capacity of a CD or DVD by 9 fold. The researchers have managed this magnificent feat by reshaping the pits on the media surface, which are normally flat, into ‘v’ shapes.
Unfortunately you won’t be [...]




Sep 17, 2007

Vudu, the Blu-Ray killer

Posted by Mike Evans in Blu-Ray player, Media Receiver, Video and TV No comments

The great Blu-Ray vs HD-DVD battle may about to be relegated to a meaningless squabble as a new streaming technology threatens to render the whole concept of watching movies on a disc as antiquated as recording them onto a magnetic tape.
The technology in question comes in the form of the new Vudu, a set top [...]




May 6, 2007

Mediagate MG-350HD media streamer reviewed

Posted by Mike Evans in Media Receiver, Video and TV No comments

The Mediagate MG-350HD media streamer has been comprehensively reviewed by PCMag, who aren’t entirely sure whether they like it or not.
The Mediagate streamer is designed to stream media (tunes and videos) form your PC to your TV or Hi-Fi, and so competes with the Apple TV and Netgear’s Digital Entertainer. However, as [...]




May 4, 2007

SkyDigital launches full-HDTV USB receiver

Posted by Mike Evans in HDTV, Media Receiver, Video and TV No comments

SkyDigital have launced its new SKYHDTV USB receiver, which is, well, an HDTV USB receiver (wonderfully original name!) The receiver plugs into your HDTV box (satellite, cable, even XBox360), and from there into your PC via USB, giving your PC the ability to record your TV programs in full HDTV.
But wait, it’s not quite [...]




Apr 26, 2007

JVC Sophisti Home Theater System review

Posted by Mike Evans in Home Cinema, Media Receiver No comments

The JVC Sophisti Home Theater System is a brand new network media player from JVC. Also known as the JVC DD-3, the Sophisti may sound like it’s a few characters short of a full word (presumably the brand designers had something against “cated”!), but don’t let that fool you - it’s a full-on media [...]




Apr 1, 2007

Asus Wireless HDMI makes media streamers redundant

Posted by Mike Evans in CeBIT 2007, Media Receiver No comments

Asus have been showing off the Asus WL-HDMI500 Wireless HDMI transmitter and receiver. The WL-HDMI500 plugs into any device with an HDMI port, and broadcasts the HD signal to any other device with another WL-HDMI500 plugged into its HDMI port.
More details of the Asus WL-HDMI500 wireless HDMI after the jump.