NETGEAR Consolidates Media with Digital Entertainer HD
05:50 - Thursday 15 March 2007 by George Walsh
Source: Tom's Hardware – Keywords: netgear, digital, entertainer Category : Miscellaneous
Source: Tom's Hardware – Keywords: netgear, digital, entertainer Category : Miscellaneous
Accessing all of your entertainment media from one device is optimal. Accessing via a network in your home is even better. NETGEAR, Inc. has made available the Digital Entertainer HD (EVA8000). The Digital Entertainer HD lets users stream digital content over their home networks to their high-definition home entertainment systems. Using High Definition Multimedia Interface (HDMI) technology, this device supports open standards for streaming digital content from Windows as well as Mac computers, network storage devices, USB media devices and Internet sites including YouTube and Flickr. Backed by a one-year warranty and 24/7 technical support, the Digital Entertainer HD is available now in North America through select e-commerce sites at an MSRP of $399. It will ship worldwide in the second quarter of 2007 through e-commerce sites, select retail stores and value-added resellers. The Digital Entertainer HD automatically discovers HD movies, TV shows, music files, and personal photos on a home network across multiple computers, and organizes these into a single media library displayed on a TV without the need for media server software running on the computer. Users of the device can play HD movie downloads, including those from BitTorrent’s new online marketplace, as well as stream HD movies and Internet videos. The Digital Entertainer HD also accesses photos directly from Flickr without a computer. It enables music lovers to listen to their iTunes libraries and iPods on their home theater system. The Digital Entertainer HD even plays Internet radio directly and can access RSS news feeds and NOAA weather and maps. Using the included remote, consumers can search their entire media library by multiple criteria including title, actor, date, genre or thumbnail images (from photos, album art or DVD covers). An HDMI port displays video resolution up to 1080p on big-screen TVs and optical digital audio output (TOSLINK) transmits full digital surround sound to the consumers’ digital audio receiver. When the PC has an optional TV tuner installed, consumers can schedule recordings and pause or rewind live broadcasts without the need for an additional DVR device. If there are multiple Digital Entertainer HDs in the home, the "Follow Me" feature enables consumers to pause a video in one room and resume it in another. While in "Party Mode," they can synchronize music playback for whole-home listening. The Digital Entertainer HD decodes many leading audio formats (MP3, WAV, WMA, WMA-Pro, FLAC, M4A, AAC, AC3), purchased music from iTunes on Windows (M4P), video formats (MPEG1/2/4, WMV, XviD, H.264) and image formats (JPEG, BMP, PNG, TIFF). It integrates a 10/100Base-T Ethernet controller, support for 802.11g wireless networking, and two USB 2.0 ports. It also supports multiple interoperability standards, including Universal Plug-and-Play (UPnP AV), Digital Living Network Alliance (DLNA) and emerging digital rights management technologies such as Microsoft Windows Media DRM 10 for Network Devices. It supports several wireless security standards including WEP, WPA-PSK and WPA2- PSK.
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