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ASUS O!Play HD2 quietly arrives at CeBIT 2010

Chris Davies, Mar 2nd 2010 Discuss [0]

ASUS have quietly added a third model to their O!Play mediaplayer range, the ASUS O!Play HD2. With no information beyond a name in the CeBIT 2010 press release they've sent us, however, and nothing on the company site, we're left guessing to its complete specifications, though the single photo does reveal USB, eSATA and various forms of memory card reader. Update: The O!Play HD2 is confirmed to have not only USB 2.0 but USB 3.0 connectivity. Read The Full Story

TerraTec NOXON M520 HD media-player arrives

Chris Davies, Mar 1st 2010 Discuss [2]

TerraTec have announced their latest media player, the NOXON M520, an HD-capable box with networking support and HDMI connectivity. Fresh to CeBIT 2010 this week, the NOXON M520 has DTS and Dolby Digital surround sound support, together with AVI and XviD compatibility, together with two USB 2.0 ports for adding in external drives. Read The Full Story

Archos A70HB Family Digital Assistant tipped for CeBIT 2010

Chris Davies, Mar 1st 2010 Discuss [0]

Archos have already been pretty upfront about their plans to bring larger versions of their Android-based internet tablet to CeBIT 2010 this week, and according to the show guide they'll slot into the company's new Archos Home Slate category. As tipped before, the tablets will prioritize family activities, such as group email and calendar access, together with the usual tablet fare such as internet access and multimedia. Read The Full Story

Boxee Beta lands on Apple TV

Chris Davies, Feb 25th 2010 Discuss [0]

Its creators may not quite know what to do with the Apple TV, but over at Boxee there's no such confusion. The media center software has long been a popular hack for the Apple set-top box, but after the company launched their new beta recently the Apple TV was pretty much left out in the cold; now, though, there's a new way to install it that's even more straightforward than before.

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Eminent EM7075-DTS network mediaplayer launches

Chris Davies, Feb 9th 2010 Discuss [1]

Eminent have launched their latest HD-capable media player, and as the name suggests the Eminent EM7075-DTS supports direct playback of Dolby DTS audio without a separate decoder. The EM-7075-DTS can handle either local content - via a USB 2.0 port - or streamed network content - via a 10/100 ethernet port - in up to 1080p High Definition. Read The Full Story

ASUS O!Play Air HDP-R3 adds WiFi-N to 1080p media streamer

Chris Davies, Feb 8th 2010 Discuss [0]

Back when ASUS announced their O!Play HDP-R1 media streamer in June 2009 we criticized it for leaving out WiFi. Now the company have launched a new version, and the ASUS O!Play Air HDP-R3 does indeed bring WiFi 802.11n to the table. The HDP-R3 is capable of playing back local 1080p HD content from attached memory sticks and hard-drives, as well as sucking streaming content over your high-speed wireless network. Read The Full Story

ASUS O!Play media box adding wireless Full HD streaming?

Chris Davies, Feb 5th 2010 Discuss [0]

ASUS' plans for its next-generation of set-top boxes have been tipped, with the company expected to add wireless HD support to an upcoming model. According to DigiTimes' usual shadowy industry sources, ASUS are using Taifatech's TF-600 chipset, presumably in a new O!Play box, which is capable of streaming Full HD video over wireless or wired networks. Read The Full Story

MvixUSA ULTIO Pro MX-880HD home-theater box and PVR

Chris Davies, Jan 27th 2010 Discuss [1]

MvixUSA have launched their latest PVR-capable media player, the ULTIO Pro MX-880HD. The new set-top box supports Full HD 1080p via HDMI, and can play back H.264, MKV, DivX HD, MPEG 2-TS, VC-1 and WMV video formats; inside there's a 3.5-inch hard-drive bay happy with up to 2TB disks. Read The Full Story

Thomson PoMMeS media tablet hits FCC with Apple wordplay

Chris Davies, Jan 26th 2010 Discuss [0]

Ah, those comical French and their whimsical word-play. Fresh to the FCC this week is the Thomson PoMMeS tablet, "pommes" of course being French for "apple", an 8-inch WVGA touchscreen slate seemingly intended for online TV consumption, VoIP, web-browsing and other generally internet related tasks. Read The Full Story

Planex MZK-WDPR Rugby router/touchscreen media player

Chris Davies, Jan 25th 2010 Discuss [0]

Remember the unusually rugby-ball shaped Qisda router that was spotted leaping through the FCC back in early December? The touchscreen media-player-cum-router has now been spotted - on sale - in Japan, as the Planex MZK-WDPR "Rugby" wireless network router. As the Qisda manual suggested, the wireless networking device supports WiFi b/g/n, has a 3.5-inch color touchscreen and can play YouTube videos, locally stored media and internet radio stations. Read The Full Story

iriver Smart HD K1 PMP gets video demo

Chris Davies, Jan 25th 2010 Discuss [0]

You know what's the one thing pretty much guaranteed to take the lust-worthy edge off a new PMP? Spotting the Windows CE homescreen lurking on it, that's what. iriver's slender Smart HD K1 turned a few heads when it officially launched earlier this month, but as this video preview shows a CE desktop is only a few taps away. Video demo after the cut Read The Full Story

Hulu $4.99 paywall rumored: Could this pave way to official Boxee support?

Chris Davies, Jan 22nd 2010 Discuss [0]

Mutterings of premium content continue to sweep across the streaming media space, with Hulu the latest to be tipped as preparing to move some of the more popular shows behind a paywall. The news - which suggests Hulu are considering asking a $4.99 per month subscription for older episodes of shows like 30 Rock, Modern Family and House - comes after Boxee announced their own plans to launch premium content over the summer. Read The Full Story