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HP Mediasmart Server Videos on YouTube

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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Attend This Month’s HP Mediasmart Server Webcasts For a Rebate On Your Pre-Order

Note the use of the condition tense here, but this week HP confirmed that those in the US attending this month’s HP Mediasmart Server webcasts may be eligible for a rebate when they pre-order the system from online retailers in the first few days of release. I’m going to quote their PR guys verbatim here, [...]

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HP Mediasmart Home Server Now Available to Pre-order Online in the USA, Shipping Late November

Today’s a very busy day of Windows Home Server annoucements – let’s start with the big news. [singlepic=131,320,240,,] HP are announcing today that their two HP Mediasmart Home Server systems, the 500Gb EX470 and 1Tb EX475, are available to pre-order today (Monday, November 5th) exclusively at a number of major US online retailers – amazon.com, buy.com, circuitcity.com and compusa.com. [...]

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Check Out the HP Mediasmart Server Reviewer’s Guide

   Whilst you’re waiting to hear news about the release date and other news on the HP Mediasmart Server, HP sent through a Reviewer’s Guide for the system, which is being sent out to the press right now, and they’ve kindly given permission for me to post it up on the blog for you to download. So [...]

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HP MediaSmart Server – Full Details Next Monday

I just got off the phone with a few people from HP’s US and European operations, and they kindly filled me in on full release details for the HP MediaSmart Server in both the US and Europe. Sadly, the deal is that the information is under wraps until Monday, November 5th so make sure you [...]

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Join Microsoft and HP Online to Hear About the HP MediaSmart Server

The HP MediaSmart Server fest continues in November, with a series of four live online presentations, hosted by Microsoft and HP and featuring some of your favourite digital pundits. Here’s the blurb: Do you have multiple PCs with increasingly large amounts of digital photos, music, video and documents? Is managing, accessing and protecting this digital [...]

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HP MediaSmart Server’s Control Center Unveiled

Over at HP’s NYC launch website, amongst all of the hyperbole around their new product lines for 2008, they dropped in an image of the HP MediaSmart Server’s new Control Center – basically a new front-end that pretty much acts like your Shared Folders server directory, albeit with extra links to HP Photo Webshare software, [...]

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It’s the HP MediaSmart Server Data Sheet!

Fresh from it’s public unveiling at IFA and more recently at HP’s NYC press launch this week, ladies and gentlemen, it’s the HP EX470 and EX475 MediaSmart Server Data Sheet! HP MediaSmart Home Server Data Sheet

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HP MediaSmart Home Server – Pricing, Availability, Add-ins Confirmed

Further to last month’s online leak of pricing for the HP MediaSmart EX470 and EX475 home servers, HP yesterday confirmed final pricing and availability for the systems in a press release. Seems that the leak was accurate, and the 500Gb EX470 will retail at $599, whilst the 1Tb EX475 will hit the market at $749. [...]

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HP MediaSmart Delay: Improvements to Initial WHS Setup, Remote Access Configuration, Firewall Conflicts and Help Files

Over the past two days there have been a number of reports about HP delaying release of their HP MediaSmart Servers due to enhancements that are currently being worked on at Microsoft, to make the product more “user-friendly”. Delaying a hardware release for a few months is a pretty big decision, and I was initially [...]

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