Netgear Digital Entertainer EVA7000
Released a few years ago, the Netgear EVA7000 Digital Entertainer is Netgear's frist try and making a consumer device fit for the living room. What they have come up with is a very nice product that allows you to view your photos and movies as well as listen to your music over your stereo/TV. By all accounts this is a great device if you are looking for something to bring all of your digital media to your living room and not break the bank doing it.
It has the ability to hook into your network either wired or wirelessly(b/g) and with the dual antenna that are on the back, having a weak connection to your wireless router won't be a problem. A quick word of caution for those that buy this device and want to use it with their wireless network. Out of the box it only supports WEP encryption, which as we all know is so 2003. The company does offer a firmware update that will upgrade the box to WPA. So we HIGHLY recommend that the first thing you do is get the update!
The EVA7000 boosts support for a large assortment of formats and that right there is a huge selling point for us.
Like we said, its been out for awhile and isn't the most cutting edge device out there( no HDMI ) but for the price it might be a nice way to try out streaming your content in your house. You can pick one up at Amazon.com for cheap these days.
They recently released the EVA8000 with support for HD content. Look for our review on that coming soon.
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Posted by David Ficocello at March 6, 2007 8:37 PM
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