Posted 10/03/07 at 01:42:11 PM by Michael Brown

We found some innovative ideas inside the MediaGate MG-350HD, but this streamer’s shortcomings far outweigh its assets.
Designing the shell to accommodate an optional 3.5-inch hard drive, for instance, is brilliant; ditto for including logic enabling it to operate as a USB 2.0 host. This means it can not only behave as a NAS box but also copy images off your digital camera without you having to first fire up your PC. But we’re less enthused about having to do a reach-around to access the USB port, and the hard-drive interface is old-school IDE.

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Posted 05/02/07 at 08:47:59 PM by Katherine Stevenson

A new digital video interface is clearly in order, but which standard will matter for PC users?

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