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HP’s new DreamScreen devices straddle the fine line between computer and digital picture frame. Like other digi-frames, you can view pictures without a computer. But with the DreamScreen, you can also wirelessly stream music, videos and photos from your PC or the Internet.
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October 26th, 2009
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author: technabob
filed under: audio gadgets home entertainment media players technology video
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Bose, makers of tiny speakers with big sounds and equally large price tags, recently introduced the SoundLink speaker system, which uses a USB device to wirelessly send music stored on your computer to a speaker. No Wi-Fi needed. The speaker has a built-in Lithium ion battery that can play your music at full volume for…
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July 20th, 2009
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author: lambert v.
filed under: audio gadgets home entertainment media players technology
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While Apple TV gives its users access to a lot of popular movies and TV shows, its limited functionality and lack of support for other popular sources of content means that it won’t be as popular as Apple’s other products. Which is why upstart Myka’s digital media receiver was developed in an open platform, just…
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May 19th, 2009
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author: lambert v.
filed under: audio gadgets home entertainment media players technology video
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I can imagine how a streaming service can send movies, HDTV, and high-quality music to homes, but games as well? Hmmm. That’s what XStreamHD claim they will provide, apparently via Care Bear satellite beams.
Seriously though, XStreamHD’s got a lot on their hands, and I’m not just talking about their patent-pending technologies. One, the company…
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April 28th, 2009
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author: lambert v.
filed under: audio future tech home entertainment media players video video games
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This new audio system from Denon is loaded with just about every feature you’d ever want in compact stereo. The Denon S-52 combines a radio, CD player, iPod Dock and wireless audio streaming in a single box.
With one of these, you’ll have no shortage of content for your listening pleasure. The radio can handle…
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November 4th, 2007
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author: technabob
filed under: audio home entertainment
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Yamaha has always been on the cutting edge of piano technology, and has just announced a cool new feature for their Disklavier player pianos. Their already amazing self-playing pianos can now stream content live over the Internet.
The new Disklavier Radio system allows the pianos to play live music broadcasts, including accompaniments to streamed, pre-recorded…
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October 15th, 2007
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author: technabob
filed under: audio home entertainment
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Revo’s Pico Wi-Fi radio lets you listen to thousands of Internet radio stations for free. But the really cool thing about it is that it’s completely portable.
The Pico Wi-Fi not only hooks up to your Internet connection wirelessly, it’s got a built-in rechargeable battery. That means you can take it pretty much anywhere within…
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August 1st, 2007
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author: technabob
filed under: home entertainment media players
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Slim Devices, makers of some of the best streaming media devices out there has announced that they’ve been acquired by Logitech. Logitech paid $20 million in cash for the company, along with potential for additional payments tied to future revenue goals.
Slim’s reasonably-priced Squeezebox and high-end Transporter media devices allow you to send media from…
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October 19th, 2006
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author: technabob
filed under: home entertainment
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While there are plenty of hard-disk based music streaming systems available these days, none is quite as schmancy as the Sooloos.
The Sooloos is a complete home media management system in a very elegant package. There are three components to the system, the Store Series, The Control Series and the Source Series. The Sooloos Store…
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October 9th, 2006
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author: technabob
filed under: home entertainment
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The new WACS7000 Streamium Wireless Music Center from Philips features a complete wireless music system in a sleek wall-mountable package.
The system includes built-in stereo speakers, a 40-watt per channel amp, a cd player and an 80GB hard drive for local storage of up to 1500 CDs. You can record direct from CD and track…
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October 2nd, 2006
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author: technabob
filed under: audio home entertainment
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While Microsoft is touting the wonders of the music sharing features of the new Zune media player, I’m quite familiar with a project in which a team from the MIT Media lab developed a similar wireless music sharing capability a couple of years ago. The team filed a patent application back at the end of 2005…
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August 26th, 2006
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author: technabob
filed under: media players
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The Ziovia CS510 Media Streamer differentiates itself from the crowd by offering the ability to stream high definition content from your computer to your HDTV via an HDMI or component connection, and also features optical and coax digital audio outputs. The box can wirelessly stream files to your tv in 720p resolution using its built-in…
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August 21st, 2006
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author: technabob
filed under: home entertainment video
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