Microsoft pushes media extenders
SOFTWARE GIANT Microsoft is getting all excited about " media extenders" which are TV set-top boxes will connect wirelessly to computers.
The Vole friendly boxes, which run on the Home Premium or Ultimate flavours of Windows Vista, and enable users to use their TV sets to watch movies, TV shows and Internet video that is stored on their computers.
According to Associated Press, the boxes have been built as part of a deal between Vole and four suppliers.
Currently the cheapest extender, from Cisco, costs $300. 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.
Vole has done another deal with Niveus although there are no prices for that yet.
This is Vole's second go at launching media extenders. It tried the same thing about two years ago but it didn't do that well.
So far the only extender for Windows Vista been the Xbox 360 game console, but it's noisy.
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I wonder will these extenders be able to play anything apart from wmv 9 movies, the 360 can't...
I'd love to be able to have my media center in the living room and be able to fully control it from my media center PC in my room using the media center remote control. Now that'd be awesome.
Dear rooneyp1976, you are incorrect, the 360 can also play h.264 Mpeg 4 files.
I don't like Fista... can we have an open sauce (as in FREE) version and sharpish please?
Like the Kiss DP-600 or the newer DP-1600 and the like, seems to make a lot more sense....There's a whole bunch of equipment from various makes like this. And they're dirt cheap compared to a full PC, and no doubt a bunch quieter.