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CES 2008: Zyxel HomePlug AV Digital Media Adapter

By on January 8, 2008 in Digital Media Receivers, Hardware

Regular readers will know I’m a fan of networking over power lines for those rooms in the house where you really need a decent connection, and wireless may be a little patchy. I use Netgear’s adaptors for the DMR in the lounge which is connected through to the router and allows me to access my [...]

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CES 2008: PVConnect Coming to Windows Home Server

By on January 8, 2008 in Digital Media Receivers, Software

Late last week, HP announced that as part of their February update, the HP MediaSmart Server would include free media server software from PVConnect. The software also comes bundled with the new Fujitsu-Siemens SCALEO Home Server. I had a quick chat with Packet Video on Sunday to understand the real benefits that PVConnect brings over [...]

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CES 2008: Windows Home Server vs Network Attached Storage – A New Battleground

By on January 8, 2008 in Digital Media Receivers, Hardware, Windows Home Server

Walking the show floors here at CES today, it was interesting to see the sheer number of networked devices on show from a multitude of manufacturers. Be it audio devices such as Logitech’s Squeezebox Duet, digital media receivers from D-Link and HP or wireless digital photo albums from Ceiva and Samsung, the Connected Home is a big theme here [...]

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CES 2008: HP MediaSmart Range Product Data Sheets Online

By on January 7, 2008 in Digital Media Receivers, Hardware

Following last week’s announcement of the new HP MediaSmart range on show here at CES, you can now download product data sheets for the MediaSmart TV, MediaSmart Receiver MediaSmart Server and the MediaVault. More Info: HP at CES

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CES 2008: HP to Announce HP MediaSmart Receiver with Extender for Windows Media Center Support

By on January 3, 2008 in Digital Media Receivers, Hardware, Windows Home Server, Windows Media Center

  Next up in HP’s CES MediaSmart announcements is the HP MediaSmart Receiver – a Digital Media Receiver (DMR) which is fully compatible with the HP MediaSmart Server and includes Extender for Windows Media Center Support (or the v2 Extender you may have read about elsewhere). The DMR enables you to playback music, videos and [...]

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Streaming21 and WNC Debut WiFi Media Frame Connected to Microsoft Windows Home Server at CES

By on January 1, 2008 in Digital Media Receivers, Hardware, Windows Home Server

Looks like the partnership between Streaming 21 and WNC continues to prosper, with the companies showcasing a Digital Photo Frame which connects to Windows Home Server at CES next week. I have a vested interest here, having recently purchased a Samsung Photo Frame which only connects to PCs running WMP11 (i.e. not WHS). Let’s hope [...]

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HP Mediasmart Server Videos on YouTube

By on November 5, 2007 in Digital Media Receivers, Hardware, Windows Home Server

HP have now set up a YouTube channel, showing videos of the HP Mediasmart Server as the hub of your digital home. More Info: YouTube

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Add-In: Firefly for Windows Home Server

By on October 27, 2007 in Add-ins & Apps, Digital Media Receivers, Software, Windows Home Server

Firefly is a media server application which allows you to stream music to DMR’s like the Roku Soundbridge and to iTunes. It’s an open source, community build application, offering the following features: Support for running on unix/POSIX platforms Support for Windows (beta versions) Support for Mac OSX (coming soon!) Support for on-the-fly transcoding of OGG, [...]

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New Xbox Media Hub On the Way?

By on October 20, 2007 in Digital Media Receivers, WHS v2, Windows Home Server

Ian Dixon points to a Smarthouse article concerning rumours of a new Xbox-based media hub rumoured to be in development. He asks: Would you prefer a all in one Xbox devices with Tuner cards or a centralized Windows Home Server with Media Center Server built in and then user Extender devices to consume the content? I [...]

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Using a Digital Media Receiver With Windows Home Server

By on September 8, 2007 in Digital Media Receivers, Hardware, Windows Home Server

A while back, I mentioned that we were in the process of fully refurbishing our home, which we moved into back in May. We’re about two thirds of the way through the work, which has been a hard slog, but the work is really starting to pay off, with big chunks of the house now [...]

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