Buffalo LinkTheater HD Media Streamer Available in the US

Buffalo, makers of all kinds of storage products has slowly been getting into the home media streaming market and just announced that they are bringing the LinkTheater HD to the States. We had covered one of their earlier products, the LinkThearter DVD, and from what we had read it wasn't a top notch streamer. Well they have been in the shop and have come up with what seems to be a great little product. The LinkTheater HD supports 720p and 1080i via HDMI. Because of some weird lawsuit they can only bring the wired version of the device to the US, the wireless version is staying in Japan. There is a USB port on the back so you can hook up an external hard drive to stream off of or just stream from a computer that is on your network via the Ethernet port. It supports a decent amount of formats, check it out after the jump.

Here are the file types/formats that the LinkTheater HD supports

Video

• mpg
• mpeg
• vob
• mp4
• wmv
• asf
• avi
• m2t
• m2ts
• mts
• m4v
• H.264

As well as Audio:

• wav
• mp3
• wma
• m4a
• AC-LC
• AAC-HE
• Dolby Digital (AC-3)

And Images:

• jpg
• jpeg
• png
• bmp.
• gif

All in all it looks like a pretty decent device and it will go on sale this month for $199.

via engadget

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Posted by David Ficocello at April 3, 2008 8:21 PM