ReviewsLogitech Squeezebox Duet
Posted 05/02/08 at 05:17:12 PM by Michael Brown
When you see a color display on a music-streamer’s remote control, it’s natural to assume that the manufacturer is going after the vaunted Sonos Digital Music System. But after thoroughly testing the Squeezebox Duet—Slim Devices’s first new product since being acquired by Logitech—we’ve concluded that Sonos has little to worry about.
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ReviewsXbox Live Marketplace
Posted 04/16/08 at 05:00:50 PM by Michael Brown & Will Smith
It turns out that Microsoft’s Xbox 360 is good for more than just playing games and streaming the occasional transcoded video file. Indeed, the game console can also be a source of movie and TV-episode downloads using Microsoft’s online store, Xbox 360 Marketplace.
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ReviewsVudu
Posted 04/16/08 at 05:00:24 PM by Michael Brown & Will Smith
Vudu delivers more HD content than any other service, but achieving that image quality requires you to purchase a $300 box that can’t be truly integrated into the rest of your home network (meaning you can’t stream the content downloaded to it from one room to another). And the company currently has HD licensing deals with only Lionsgate, Paramount, and Universal; the rest of its offerings are limited to standard definition.
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ReviewsHP Media Vault mv2010
Posted 03/11/08 at 02:00:10 PM by David Murphy
HP’s Media Vault is like a clumsy, fat version of HP’s star-quarterbacking, marathon-running, leather-jacket-wearing MediaSmart Home Server. And that’s saying something, considering the MediaSmart EX475 is something of a middling performer. We can’t fault HP for trying to make a cheaper, simpler alternative to the Windows Home Server-based MediaSmart, but we’re certainly ready to take the company to task for releasing a product that doesn’t work as advertised.
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ReviewsLinksys DMA2200 Media Center Extender
Posted 03/07/08 at 07:59:09 PM by Michael Brown
We’ve been waiting for media-streaming devices to catch up to 802.11n, and the Linksys DMA2200 does it in style—geek style, that is. The box isn’t particularly attractive, but we dig the dual-band Wi-Fi radio inside that’s capable of operating on either the 2.4GHz or 5GHz frequency bands.
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ReviewsHP MediaSmart EX475
Posted 01/14/08 at 06:23:46 PM by Will Smith
We’re going to get this out of the way up front. If you’re looking for raw speed, the MediaSmart isn’t for you. We’ve tested faster NAS boxes, but we’ve never tested a network storage device that delivers the same level of functionality as this little Windows Home Server-based wonder.
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ReviewsCreative Xmod Wireless
Posted 10/30/07 at 02:14:46 PM by Michael Brown
Creative is a little late to the wireless music-streaming party, but the company comes with a gift its competitors can’t match: the X-Fi Crystalizer technology lifted from its X-Fi soundcard line.
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ReviewsSony LF-V30 LocationFree Base Station
Posted 10/17/07 at 02:25:07 PM by Michael Brown
Which consumer product first enabled any PC with an Internet connection to remotely control a set-top box or DVR and stream live or pre-recorded television to it? If you answered “Slingbox,” you’re mistaken. It was actually Sony’s LocationFree TV.
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