OmWave produced the most elegant Windows Home Server, in my mind. Its OmServer is wrapped in the smoking hot case and equipped with 4 hard disk drives for 4TB of storage, a 2GHz Celeron processor with 1GB of memory.
Starting price is 960€ which is not so expensive for such gorgeous design.
[via eHomeUpgrade]
German company HIGHDEF Technology Gmbh offers a very nice looking Vista MCE based home entertainment systems. It includes a TV reception with HDTV and a twin tuner, a hard drive and DVD recorder, DVD and CD player, archive for video, music and photos, and Internet and email, as well as video on demand. The Box One has probably the best case for media center I have ever seen. It’s an excellent mix of an austere style and functionality. The Box One fits to others A/V devices ideally.
To control the Box One media system the 7″ touch panel and the keypad can be used. The old school remote control is also an option. Based on my personal experience it’s the best way to control media center.
Recently ControlThink introduced ThinkRemote Community Edition, software that offers consumers access to Windows SideShow content from electronic devices found in nearly every home – mobile phones, portable game consoles and remote controls. Following devices are supported at current time – Windows Mobile phone or PDA, Apple iPhone or iPod Touch, Java-enabled phones, Sony PSP and Playstation 3, Nintendo DS and Nintendo Wii, Web browser (I hope it won’t be just IE).
Well, the ThinkRemote platform seems cool. Especially if you use Windows Media Center or some Windows-based home automation system such HomeSeer. I’m not a big fan of Windows OS or its software. But the idea of SideShow is excellent. Hope Linux community will have something similar or better as usual.
[via eHomeUpgrade]
MythTV – a well-known open source software for media centers is based on Linux. If you’re interested at least to playback its files on windows have a look MythTV Filters for Windows on SourceForge. The main goal of that project is “to make almost any mediaplayer able to handle mythtv files including streaming files from the backend and watching LiveTV”.
[via MythtvNews]
Moneual showed on CEDIA its tubular I*magine HTPC. It looks very impressive and features 2GHz Intel Core 2 Duo T7300 processor, a 256MB ATI 2400 PRO GPU, 2GB of DDR2 RAM, a 750GB SATA drive, an integrated microphone for voice recognition and a top-loading combo drive to boot. Additionally, it includes a multicard reader, Bluetooth 2.0, gigabit Ethernet, WiFi, HDMI, optical / 5.1 analog audio outputs, three USB 2.0 ports, a line-in jack, and a speaker on each end. Taking into account previous models of Moneual HTPCs I can imagine that the new tubular I*magine also uses MS Windows.
As usual there are no any information on the producer’s site about availability or price. Actually, I didn’t find anything about tubular I*magine HTPC there.
[via Engadget HD]
