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Asus Digital Home

Posted by Charbax on 16th March 2007

Asus has a Vista Home Premium with the Media Center interface and a standalone webradio ethernet player.

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Echostar and AT&T

Posted by Charbax on 14th January 2007

This is a video-on-demand system combined with a satellite receiver and a DVR called Homezone:

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Their newest model supports H264 in HD. But they aren’t yet certified for HDCP, thus no HDMI output ports. They are showing a new DVB-T module that enables you to record the shows directly onto the 3.5″ harddrive which is inside the device or which is external on one of the usb2-host ports.

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Daewoo

Posted by Charbax on 5th September 2006

Daewoo is also getting ready for IPTV. This is an IPTV set-top-box based on the latest Sigma Designs chip that playsback full 1080p Mpeg4, Mpeg2 and H264. Here is a demonstration and talk abolut the IPTV and VOD features of this 100â‚¬ box.

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AMD Live

Posted by Charbax on 4th September 2006

A software to install on your Windows XP computer with media center extender. Then it transcodes any kind of video in realtime to play it back on consumer electronic devices, be them on your local network, like a cheap mpeg2 set-top-box or be it on the go, with a 3G or Wifi mobile device.