Posted 11/03/08 at 08:00:00 AM by Nathan Edwards
"Never underestimate the bandwidth of a station wagon full of tapes speeding down the highway." - Andrew Tanenbaum
Western Digital's bringing back the sneakernet with a media player that displays video, audio, and photos from your USB devices on your TV - no networking required.
In fact, the WD TV HD Media Player doesn't have any networking capabilities at all. Instead, this little device plays files from your WD Passport (or other USB devices, although WD would love it if you used their portable hard drives) on your TV screen, in glorious 1080p resolution.

More info after the jump.
Posted 09/16/08 at 05:24:25 PM by Michael Brown

The second-generation Slacker personal radio player is smaller, slimmer, and even better than the first. There may be no better way to listen to free music. Slacker announced a new version of its portable radio today, and we’re happy to say the Slacker G2 kicks just as much ass as the original product we reviewed last April.
Here’s Slacker in a nutshell, if you don’t want to re-read our previous review: Slacker radio is much like Pandora or Last.FM in that you can listen to music on the Internet for free (along with an occasional advertisement) while the service analyzes your expressed taste in music and recommends new artists it thinks you’ll enjoy.
The trade-offs are that you can't always choose which songs you want to hear, and you can skip only a limited number of tracks. Slacker also a subscription plan ($7.50 per month if you pay for a year at a time) that eliminates the ads, enables you to call up saved tracks at will (as long as you maintain your subscription), and allows you skip an unlimited number of tracks.
The second-generation Slacker personal radio player is smaller, slimmer, and even better than the first. There may be no better way to listen to free music. Read on for our full review.
Posted 07/23/08 at 10:09:38 AM by Mark Edward Soper

CNet reports that Adobe has rolled out a new version of Adobe Media Player. Despite the modest .1 increment in the version number (Adobe Media Player 1.0 users are offered the update the next time they start the player), Adobe Media Player 1.1 has undergone substantial changes in this new release, with improvements in speed, user interface, and content.
To learn (and see) how Adobe has made it easier and faster to watch your favorite TV shows and movies on your PC, and to find out how much TV AMP 1.1 provides, join us after the jump.
Posted 04/11/08 at 11:54:32 PM by Mark Soper
You don't need a TV tuner to bring a wide variety of TV programs to your desktop - just add the new Adobe Media Player and click away. Find out what's on.
Posted 12/15/06 at 12:44:30 PM by Michael Brown
The Logitech Wireless DJ corrects nearly every deficiency we identified with Logitech's Wireless Music System for PC (reviewed July 2006), thanks to much-improved software and a slick remote control.
Posted 12/01/06 at 02:15:42 AM by Michael Brown
With its flexible docking port, Klipsch brings your mobile tunes to your home system, no matter the device.
Posted 11/30/06 at 05:58:03 PM by Michael Brown
The Sansa e260 has several features we’d love to see in other media players, including a microSD card slot; unfortunately, it’s also saddled with a killer design flaw.
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Posted 11/30/06 at 05:57:03 PM by Michael Brown
We hereby decree that every new media player should henceforth be equipped with an instant-on feature, like that of iRiver’s Clix. You push the power button and—bam!—the Clix is up and running.
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