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MvixUSA DS-100 is HD media hub for Digital Signage

Daniel Lim, Feb 11th 2009 Discuss [0]

MvixUSA is bringing the increasingly popular multimedia hub out from your living room to serve the business class digital signage. The DS-100 works via a combination of a DLNA-complaint HD media player and a supplied PC-based control portal. It supports HD media playbacks from videos, music to images via networked devices or storages such as DLNA server/player, UPnP server, a built-in Flash storage of 16GB, an external USB hdd, wirelessly or though a LAN. Read The Full Story

Amex Digital photo frames are feature-rich

Daniel Lim, Feb 2nd 2009 Discuss [1]

Amex Digital is extending its Blu-ray optical drive/decks business to unveil a pair of multifunctional digital photo frames, SR-7 and SW-7. The former features an indoor thermometer, radio controlled dual alarm clock and is capable of multimedia playback; while the latter does it all with an additional weather station. Read The Full Story

Klipsch intros three affordable HD Theater surround speakers

Daniel Lim, Jan 26th 2009 Discuss [0]

Klipsch Audio has announced three affordable 5.1 surround-sound speaker systems, designed primarily for high-end PC multimedia system to entry-level Home Theater entertainment. Unlike their much-advanced Home theater lineup, the new members are reasonably priced but still offering high performance feature such as its heritage horn technology with a MicroTractrix 0.75-inch aluminum dome tweeter; units are compact in size but big in sound with complement subwoofer and powerful digital hybrid/ digital class D amplifier. Read The Full Story

AVerMedia shows off VP-1 Portable Visual Presenter

Brenda Stokes, Jan 21st 2009 Discuss [0]

Today we got our first look at the latest offering from AVerMedia. The AVerVision VP-1 Portable Visual Presenter is an affordable way to display images and documents in a public setting without having to fork over the cash for a full on projector. It can be used to display images on a TV or computer screen or on a blackboard if connected to an external projector. The device features a 2-megapixel camera, auto focus and 8x digital zoom. It's small and weighs just 2.7 pounds but can project images sized up to A4 paper. This device can also apparently utilize a 28mm adapter to show what a microscope can see. You can even connect it to video devices and computers. It features an RCA and a VGA output and a VGA input. You can choose between 800x600, 1024x768 and 1280x960 resolutions. You can get the AVerVision VP-1 Portable Visual Presenter for $450 now. [via Electronista]

Epson released firmware for P-6000 and P-7000 multimedia photo viewers

Daniel Lim, Jan 21st 2009 Discuss [0]

Epson has released a major firmware update for its P-6000 and P-7000 multimedia photo viewers to improve a variety of camera RAW file supports, correct storage card writing errors and make changes to player behavior. Read The Full Story

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CES 2009: Creative Zii ‘Stemcell Computing’

Chris Davies, Jan 10th 2009 Discuss [2]

Creative have been demonstrating their new Zii platform this week at CES, catchily titled “Stemcell Computing”, which is promising a huge shift in how multimedia is handled by mobile devices. Zii comprises a number of scalable Processing Elements, or PEs, each of which can be individually re-tasked to different tasks. In that way, rather than a device having a set amount of video decoding, encoding or high-definition processing capability, it can selectively assign generic PEs to whatever the task at hand.

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iRiver’s WAVE-HOME wants to be your all-in-one communications hub

Shawn Farner, Jan 8th 2009 Discuss [0]

iRiver will be briefing the CES crowd in a few short hours, but we thought we'd take an early look at one of the new products they've brought to the show. The WAVE-HOME is not an easy device to categorize other than to say this - iRiver wants it to do a lot for you. Read The Full Story

LaCinema Classic streams media to your TV

Shawn Farner, Jan 7th 2009 Discuss [0]

LaCie is rolling out a new external hard drive called the LaCinema Classic, offering media lovers a simple way to consume their movies, music and photos - through their TV. All the user has to do is hook the device up to their computer via USB, copy files onto the Classic and then hook it up to their TV via composite or HDMI. Read The Full Story

Niveus Media inked with HDGIANT to expand Premium Movie Collections

Daniel Lim, Dec 23rd 2008 Discuss [0]

Already providing one of the industry’s best media player and networked media server, Niveus looks to expand its content services via HDGiants to bring HD quality feature films directly through the company’s Niveus Movie Library application. Read The Full Story

Western Digital released firmware 1.01.01 for WD TV HD Media Player

Daniel Lim, Dec 22nd 2008 Discuss [0]

The does-it-all WD TV Media Player that reads not only HFS+ but also FAT32 and NTFS was proven buggy in its initial rollout. That’s to be expected for a media device with such broad range of playback-ability. Interested parties hold up for better firmware fixes and supports now can get their hands on one, with more added features that you could possibility imagine. Read The Full Story

Television on-demand streaming media app for iPhone & iPod touch

Chris Davies, Dec 17th 2008 Discuss [0]

Makayama have released a new app for the iPhone and iPod touch, intended to make finding video content from broadcast TV channels more straightforward. The plainly-named Television claims access to fifty shows from thirty channels on-demand (rather than live). However, Television doesn't actually host the shows; instead, it " is designed to help you find videos and information that resides on sites not owned or controlled by Makayama". Read The Full Story

Multifunctional MvixPVR boasts an iPod dock

Daniel Lim, Dec 16th 2008 Discuss [0]

Mvix has announced their latest multifunctional PVR with an integrated iPod dock. Essentially, the Full HD 1080P capable MvixPVR combines PVR media server, Ipod dock and HDD storage into one device that provides multimedia playback, record, time shift with streaming ability though wired or WiFi network such as NAS, UPnP media server and BitTorrent downloader. Read The Full Story