Evergreen “DN-UTV880/A” is a USB TV Tuner which has measures 94×26×11mm and weight just 31g but allows to record broadcasts directly to disk or DVD together with the bundled video recording software. It’ available now in Japan at the price of $71.40 only.
[via Thechblog]
Belkin is one of the world’s leading manufacturers of peripherals and connectivity solutions for computer and consumer electronics users has announced his new PureAV HDMI Interfact 3-to-1 video switch. Actually, it is a hub that allows up to three HDMI devices to be plugged in and connected to your single HDMI port. The PureAV box supports HD resolutions up to 1080p. It also includes a remote control and a 6-foot HDMI cable.
The box will be available this summer for $200.
[via Ubergizmo]
Blueado m5e is a Mac mini-inspired home theater PC. There is a “Sport Edition” of m5e. It’s packing in 2.0GHz Pentium M processor, integrated graphics, 2Gb RAM , HDD 400Gb and analog and digital tuners. Blueado has a wide variety of connectivity options such as USB 2.0, FireWire, DVI, VGA, S-video, and digital coax — along with Dolby Digital and DTS support for hooking up your surround sound speakers to the included RCA outputs. To complete a picture m5e includes a DVD burner, remote control, and million-in-one card reader.
The original version is priced by $1500. “Sport Edition” features add another $500 to this amount. Mac Mini seems more appropriate to build home theater (price is lower and set of features is the same nearly) except it’s difficult to install here Linux but it’s another story.
[via Engadget]
AircordAV is a new product to stream HD around your house. AircordAV comes with a base unit that hooks up to any of your home theater gear using HDMI, DVI, component, S-video, composite, or SCART connections, and creates its own 802.11g network with up to eight clients feeding any or all of your video displays.
AircordAV is not released yet. It’s going to be on the market on December at the price of ~$500 which is very reasonable price for this kind of devices.
[via Engadget]
If you lucky owner TiVo - digital video recording set-top device for personal television, social person and have yourown blog it might be unteresting for you how to generate TiVoRoll which shows what programs you’ve been recording on your TiVo box. Another possibility is to create RSS Atom showing which episodes of programs your TiVo has been recording lately.