PCmag reviews, the Sony VAIO XL2 Digital Living System ($2,699.99 direct) their update to the VAIO XL1 system introduced last year.
The Sony VAIO XL2 Digital Living System continues the company's path toward Media Center nirvana. Like the XL1, the new XL2 is a MCE PC that easily replaces your TiVo, CD changer, DVD player, and more. It's perfect addition to your home theater, particularly if you own an HDTV with an HDMI port.
Samsung Korea, has announced the SVR-1650 a new media recorder with a standalone DVR for security purposes reports akihabaranews
Iit's capable of receiving data from 16 video sources, then encode all that into Mpeg4 at 480fps in 720x480 and store it onto its 250GB HDD (2TB optional) and burn it onto DVD
TechEBlog highlights this functional LEGO Pinball Machine from Anders'.
…besides keeping track of the score, also generates a high score list. If you are good and make it into the top three, you can enter your name using the buttons on the RCX.
Engadget has some spy shots of AT&T's Homezone. A mess of a media system thingee.
The 2Wire box features a 250GB drive for storage of live DISH, MovieLink, and Akimbo programming, dual TV outputs for simultaneous TV playback, HDMI, two QWERTY remotes, Ethernet, and three USB ports.
Samsung yesterday introduced their latest PDP TV, the Premium Anyview. The All in one TV are available in 42 and 50”, and includes a 300GB HDD for video recording writes akihabaranew .
Princeton Japan has announced the PTV-WWTV7 wireless, waterproof display for those of you who enjoy hanging by bodies of water. The seven-inch LCD, due out in Japan this June for 49,800, features a built-in battery and WiFi receiver, and a separate unit houses a transmitter that also includes an analog tuner and S-video and composite inputs for other video sources writesEngadget.
LINKS, Japan is set to release ANTEC's Media Center box in Japan . Called the NSK2400, this MicroATX case will have a 3-volume architecture that separates the power supply, the motherboard and the HDD's, with the goal to reduce vibrations writes akihabaranews. The whole box will be cooled by two 12cm fans and ANTEC will include a 380W power supply in the casing.
Ben over at BenHeck.com has a great how to create a NES Portable. Ben's NES portable is called. nPod is a NES with 3.5" screen, runs on 4 AA's and uses the original NES cartridges writes Make
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