TV with built-in DVR

June 13th, 2006 Comments(0)
Plasma TV with built-in DVR
LG released a new Plasma-TV which allows to pause Live TV - 42PC1RR. It’s possible due to the fact that the TV has built-in DVR with 80GB recording capacity. So, without any others devices you can store up to 30 hours of TV programmes. This is a good tendency to put related devices in one. On the one hand users lose flexibility as in case of stand alone DVR such VDR. But on the other hand users cannot do anything except plug and configure the 42PC1RR. For ordinary users the second way is the most preferable.
[via Strategiy.com]

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Mac Mini, Sport Car and a Movie Theater

June 13th, 2006 Comments(2)
DeLorean

DeLorean Mac Mini is very interesting example of using of Mac Mini as a car movie theater. The car is 1981 DeLorean DMC. The system includes:

  • 1.5 GHz Mac Mini G4, 1Gb RAM, 80 GB HDD
  • Projection center and mirror
  • Tether box
  • Basic Stamp Brian box and liner actuator

Here is more details and photos.

I’m thinking about Mac Mini (but Intel-based) as a home PC. It includes many features, has excellent design, small form-factor and reasonable price. Only one I don’t like (personally) Mac OS. My wife Maria prefers Windows and me - Linux or Windows too. Mac OS is very specific and not prevailing operation system. It’d be nice if Apple starts to support Windows and Linux after moving to Intel processors :)

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HD Signal AutoSelector DVI

June 13th, 2006 Comments(0)

High-definition televisions (HDTV) becomes more and more popular. So, it needs some device to connect DVD players, DVRs, and HD TiVo systems to the one HD TV. HD Signal AutoSelector DVI allows your TV to receive input from up to six HD sources on one input. There is a possibility to conncect TV with HDMI inputs via HDMI adapter.

The HD Signal AutoSelector DVI is available with price US$1989.99.

HD Signal AutoSelector DVI

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Digital Deck’s Media Connector

June 06th, 2006 Comments(0)
Digital Deck Media Connector
Digital Deck™, a leading provider of technology for management of entertainment content throughout the connected home, released its Media Connector and Software. It runs on Windows XP PCs and transfer music, live and recorded TV, photos into every connected room of home with following formats:
  • MPEG-2 Video, Full D1 Sampling @ 6+ Mbps (MPEG-4 is missed)
  • MP3, WMA, AAC & AC-3 Digital Audio
  • JPEG, PNG, TIFF, GIF & BMP Image Formats
Media Connector can be easyly integrated with TiVo® Series2 DVR, Apple® iTunes®, flickr™ and of course Windows Media™ Player. It has a bunch of outs: Component, S-Video & Composite, Digital & Analog Outputs, Infrared & Serial Device Control, 100-Base-T.
Media Connector is available for US$499 for one room and US$299 for each additional rooms. Note that currently it supports only three Media Connector in one network.
[via eHomeUpgrade]

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Turn your Mac into a TV

June 06th, 2006 Comments(0)

TVMax Miglia Technology is a leading European manufacturer of video, audio and storage products for Mac and Windows has released a TVMax - a analog TV recorder for Mac Mini. It allows to watch, pause, rewind, skip forward and record live TV on your Mac Mini. TVMax receives analog over the air (antenna) and analog cable TV and features built-in video hardware compression within its small, yet ever so stylish case. It can even capture VHS tapes, allowing you to store them on your hard drive or burn them onto DVD. It also offers hardware compression to MPEG-2, MPEG-4, DivX, one click Apple iPod (writes directly to iTunes) or Sony PSP export, PVR functionality based on EPG (Electronic Program Guide). The full tech specification can be found here.

The TVMax is already available and priced at US$249.

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