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Friday, September 2, 2011
The latest version of the popular Roku media streamer adds Bluetooth support and a microSD card slot, allowing you to use the Roku2 for downloadable games. Out of the box, the Roku 2 XS lets you play Rovio's ubiquitous Angry Birds using nothing more than Roku's newly enhanced, motion-sensing remote.
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Tuesday, May 17, 2011
The AC Ryan Playon HD2 is a media streamer that's packed with features, but could use better functionality.
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Thursday, May 12, 2011
AC Ryan are certainly making a name for themselves in the connected media player space. Last generations offerings, the Playon!HD and HD Mini offered easy access to video and audio files both on local storage and over LAN. The new generation, denoted by the rather awkward Playon!HD2 moniker, improves on that impressive foundation with several useful fixes.
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Saturday, March 26, 2011
The Netgear NeoTV NTV550 is an HD media streamer that's pretty close to being the best in the streaming business.
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Monday, March 21, 2011
The Buffalo LinkTheatre LTV100 is a small, Full HD-capable media streaming device with basic functions. It's capable of playing files from attached USB storage devices, as well as from media servers and shared resources on your home network. However, its interface doesn't do a good job of sorting content and you can't watch YouTube videos or stream online music, unlike some other streamers at the same price point.
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Wednesday, March 16, 2011
The Grundig GSTB3111BR set top box is a competent digital TV receiver that also incorporates a Blu-ray disc player and a USB-based media player.
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Monday, March 7, 2011
The Pioneer BDP-430 is a Blu-ray disc player that can play 3D movies as well as normal 2D content with aplomb, and YouTube access will be offered via a future firmware update. Sadly its Internet-based features are limited when compared to media powerhouses like the Samsung BD-C6900 and Sony BDP-S470.
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Thursday, March 3, 2011
We’ve seen something of an explosion in the home media streaming market in the last year or so. Low power and low price Realtek chipsets have brought high definition media on the television within range of the average home user. While home theatre PCs have a greater range of features than the best media streamer, they tend to be far more expensive and power hungry.
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Sunday, January 23, 2011
The Samsung BD-C8900 is an excellent 3D Blu-ray player and a reasonable PVR. If you can spare the pennies it won't disappoint.
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Saturday, January 22, 2011
Don’t fancy the Google or Apple TV? The Veebeam HD could be your answer.
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A shootout between this spring's BYOD favourite the Samsung Galaxy S4 Android phone and the best BlackBerry yet, the BlackBerry Z10. read more...
Dell XPS 12 convertible Ultrabook, is supposed to be a laptop/tablet hybrid, but it's clutching at straws when claiming to be a tablet. Think of this more as a decent laptop, that can sort of be used as a tablet. read more...
A 10.1in tablet running Windows 8 and aimed at business users the ElitePad is smart and stylish. Here's our HP ElitePad 900 review. read more...
Cool styling combined with power make the 2Big NAS a great, SME-friendly choice for network storage. read more...
It’s a record-breaker! And that’s official. read more...
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