Watching PC videos on your TV
p2pnet news | Product News:- What’s a ‘media extender’?
It’s the latest marketing buzz-phrase and it means Microsoft and others have figured out a way to sell Home Premium or Ultimate Vista users wireless technology so they can us their TVs to watch movies, TV shows and online video already stored on their computers.
“The cheapest extender, from Cisco Systems Inc.’s Linksys division, will cost $300,” says Associated Press, going on:
“Linksys will have another model with a built-in DVD player for $350, a price matched by D-Link’s model, which lacks a DVD player but includes a USB port for viewing photos and other content stored on flash drives or hard drives.
“Another extender is from Niveus and is aimed at home theater enthusiasts. No price was announced yet, but Microsoft product planner Hakan Olsson said it would be substantially higher than the other models.
All four should be on sale by the holiday season, and will include remote controls, says AP, adding:
“As with some other hardware products in the past, Microsoft has been heavily involved in development of the extenders.”
Also See:
Associated Press – Microsoft touts new ‘media extenders’, September 27, 2007
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September 27th, 2007 at 7:29 am
Um isnt that waht divxplayers are for?
I can understand companies want to make something so they can be streamed wirelessly but Id much rather just burn the movie and play it on a divx player so Im not constintly using the harddrive ont eh computer. Im sure in time that would wear down the drive.
September 27th, 2007 at 7:49 am
I’ll stick with XBMC for the time being. The minute they manage to sus out how to get that on the 360 I’ll be there. These “extenders” are geared towards the sort of people who wouldn’t hesitate to spend several hundred dollars on gadgets. Not all of us are in that position.
September 27th, 2007 at 9:27 am
I am a computer nerd and virtually I do every thing with computer even soemtime watching mocies. However when I get reaaly serious about this I just play a CD or a DVD on my big flat screen tv with my high end audio system abd I don’t want to bother booting a computer even when I do it casually. This mean that computers does not offer yet the relative ease of use of a TV or a stereo yet.
September 27th, 2007 at 11:46 am
$350 WTF for that money you could get a refurbished mac mini and put it under your tv. (macmini not apple tv)
this way you have a full pc/dvdplayer/PVR/jukebox etc… which most importantly could read files off your home network not just a receiver that shows whats on a pc screen somewhere in your house.
a home made VIA epica pc with linux would be even cheaper $100+