Amex Digital launches iMON HD Mobile portable media center
By Darren Murph 
posted May 15th 2008 7:11AM
posted May 15th 2008 7:11AM
[Via AkihabaraNews]
posted May 15th 2008 7:11AM
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i want one!!
and I'm first!!! yes yes go me go me
yes i own a mac
i now a grate hack (you could make it have a touch screen and make it portable!!)
my spelling skilz lack
and rhyming is so slack
and did i say i own a mac?
did i get all of it ..i think so
If Fanboys suck
And nonsense cluck
As this post by doud
Then I must doubt
My plans an iMac to buy
From the WWDC nigh
if commenters like ryan live
then all of us must wizz
on our favorite pez
and buy a mac like hiz
even if he still livez
As for the display on this guy, doesn't it remind you of an HT receiver? The idea of a lightweight Surround Sound amp for your computer sounds good to me . . .
Nice colour though.
If I am not mistaken, this may be useful for people like me who have a tv in one room and the stereo and computer in another. It looks like a device that I can set up in the living room, aim my remote at it and control the computer and other devices in the other room and get feedback from the display as to what I am doing, as well as being able to brows songs, choose inet radio station, etc. I have been looking for a device like this (and thought about building one) But the price will be the key, to me, this is mainly an IR interface and display that should not cost more then a hundred bucks of so. Any more hten that and I think you could just hack your chumby to do this..
This sounds about right. I own one of their internal IR receiver/VFDs and essentially the only point is to receive remote commands and control your home theatre by remote. It sounds like all this new product is going to do is take it to external USB for more flexibility.
Looks a lot like my squeez box. Just cheaper plastic.
Hrm, there are a few of these that've hit the market. As for having this near your TV setup and your stereo and computer in the other room, the only concern is streaming; will it be able to stream 1080p properly? (Thank God, not a single Crysis mention yet... until now :D)
I mean, if we're going to be playing movies off the computer, then we're probably NOT going to be playing discs that we can normally play in our DVD player, so that brings me to my next question; what's the compatability like with XviD and DivX?
I'm sorry if I'm not correct on this, but not all streaming media centres can properly receive/transmit codecs properly?
Just wondering!
Looks a tad plastic-ky,
a bit tacky,
To stream UHDV
would be a tad wacky
Why are we commenting like this
My name is Chris
Hope I don't get de-ranked
by more intelligent users, flanked.
It's just the iMon OEM VFD in a tacky enclosure. Exact same remote and all as the one I got with my Thermaltake HTPC case. Wonder if it relays the signals back by IR or if it's radio.