Ziovia C615 HD Network Media Streamer Is Coming

In going over some saved articles we had lying around we found a gem that the good people over at Gizmodo had reported on a few months back. The C615 is the newest creation out of the Ziovia labs and from the Gizmodo report it looks like it keeps up with the high standards that their previous products had set. We had reported on the CS505 awhile back and where extremely impressed with what we saw. The new C615 takes their products to the next level with a new design and a new approach. In the past most of their products included a DVD drive so you could not only use it as your media streamer, but also as your everyday DVD player. Well the new 615 moves away from that and becomes more of a true streamer by ditching its DVD player and relying completely on network content.

The C615 supports a wide range of formats including:

MP3
WAV
AAC
MPEG-4 / H.264
WMV9
GIF

And as the guys at Gizmodo say: "pretty much every other file type in between". So you can bet this will be able to play just about anything you throw at it. It will connect to your network via Ethernet only. We have to say that unlike some people we don't see this as necessarily a bad thing. With the current state of home wireless networks you can suffer a lot of performance loss when relying on a wireless signal. We have tried a ton of devices in our offices and we have found that while using a wireless connection to stream music or pictures might be tolerable, doing it for HD movies is next to impossible. Of course there is always 802.11N to take care of that, but we haven't seen many media streaming devices have 802.11N.

As for other goodies that it comes with, it has space to add an internal hard drive as well as a USB port for either transferring files from or using as an external source. This is suppose to launch this month with the going price at $329. We have sent a request into the company to get a review unit so we'll see what happens. We would love to see how this preforms. Until then we can only read about it. Stay tuned

via gizmodo

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Posted by David Ficocello at March 14, 2008 6:00 AM