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Mediabolic announces new products and techs at CES

By Justin Mann

On January 6, 2006, 2:17 PM

Today, some more partnerships touting Intel's Viiv were announced. Mediabolic published a press release talking about their partnership with Intel to provide media server software for coupling with Viiv hardware in the future. Mediabolic's software's primary function will be to enable easy moving of digital content from different machines in the home, such as from a media center to a desktop. Mediabolic also announced several new products in partnership with BenQ and Buffalo designed around entertainment and media centers that are in development and set to be available in the second half of this year.

The four new products include the BenQ DV3770, a 37” Network LCD Television, and several network media players. The 37” TV is HD supporting and integrates a media player in the device, along with network capabilities, allowing the single device to access media on your home network to be played on the TV as a single solution. The full press releases are available at Mediabolic's site. The media center wave has been slowly growing, and last year it really took off. 2006 is already looking really good, with the wave turning into a frenzy, and for all of us who are using these devices as the centerpiece for media centers at home, these are good times.

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  1. Mediabolic[url]http://www.mediabolic.com/press/item.php?id=26
    [/url]Viiv[url]http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=1000
    103&sid=ae6hxMtVXA2g&refer=us[/url]Well cool, networked tv...so we begin to work towards networking houses, sweet. WEll the interior of the houses being interlinked anyway. Very cool.
  2. I'm predicting that the entertainment center as we know it today is going to soon be a relic, and rather than having a central point where everyone in the house goes to watch movies and play music, the idea will be that every machine in the house can play any of the music or videos that the media center has.
  3. [b]Originally posted by Soul Harvester:[/b][quote]I'm predicting that the entertainment center as we know it today is going to soon be a relic, and rather than having a central point where everyone in the house goes to watch movies and play music, the idea will be that every machine in the house can play any of the music or videos that the media center has.[/quote]In some houses (rich ppl's), this is already happening. All that needs to be done is refine it, increase quality and push price down to make it available for us. In other words, wait till 2007.
  4. The networking field has never looked so good. The 37 inch Network LCD TV sounds so awesome. And for it to be able to play media through networking is a very viable solution for the future. A small network, like a LAN or something, is already fairly common in households, especially for a family of more than one person going online all the time. But to utilize this for family entertainment, I can't wait for this to become common in the future.
  5. This doesn't solve the problem of trying to play music or watch television while you're taking a shower. I'm just sayin.
  6. This 37" Network LCD TV must cost an arm and a leg. And looking back at how long LCD monitor takes to reduce its price, don't hold ur breath. Average people won't be able to afford this in the near future. It's more likely in 201X that this kind of device becoming mainstream.
  7. It's not using Windows MCE?So much for Windows everywhere...
  8. This is great, I would welcome the idea of this technology, available to consumers on the market, hopefully for a fair price. I'm sure that when this becomes available (Pricewise) I will most certainly be purchasing one.

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