Pixel Magic Systems Media Players HD MediaBox

We just saw the HD MediaBox™ from Pixel Magic yesterday at Microcenter. It was tucked behind one of the smaller HDTVs and looked interesting. The HD Mediabox is a high definition HDD (hard disk drive) media player which gives instant access to your high definition video, digital music, digital photos and DVD files no matter where they are stored - on it's internal hard disk drive (HDD), on your personal computer*, USB HDD or Network Attached Storage box*. The HD MediaBox™ supports output resolutions of up to 1080p so you can now set all your HD media free from the constraints of your monitor. Use any VGA, component video, DVI or HDMI equipped display device - Flat panel displays, projectors, HDTVs and more.

The HD MediaBox™ is designed with high quality audio playback in mind. Equipped with 24-bit/192KHz audio DAC from Analog Devices Inc, low noise Op Amps from Burr-Brown® (famous for their clean output and ultra-low distortion characteristics) and our own specially developed timing circuitry, HD MediaBox™ can now be the centre of your hifi as a high end CD jukebox storing thousands of CDs!

We'll find out more as we check out this interesting new streaming wonder.

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Planex MZ-04G Media Router

The Planex MZ-04G Router is a new breed of routers that does more then just route your traffic around your house. Typical routers only allow you to create a home network from just the one incoming connection you have to the internet. The new trend now is to build more functionality into these devices allowing you to do more with them then ever before.

One of the big new additions to these new routers is an embedded BitTorrent client. One of the pains about using BitTorrent to dowload media from the net is the fact that you have to leave your computer on all day to do it. We hate wasting energy and wish we could have another low power unit do all of our BitTorrent downloads for us. Well enter the MZ-04G.

By hooking up a USB hard drive to the to one of the 2 USB ports on the back of the router you can save all your downloads right to that, again keeping the main PC off for the night. Even if you aren't big into downloading BitTorrents you can still take advantage of the USB ports to add some NAS to your home network.

We can only assume that we will be seeing more and more of these types of products this coming year. There is no release date yet, but we will be sure to update you once we find out.

via engadget.