We've now got a content provider giving support to Netgear's
Digital Entertainer Elite, and that honor goes to
CinemaNow. At today's overly-enthusiastic press conference -- seriously, they threw apples, footballs, and a beer can at certain points -- the company showed off the pay-per-view service on both the aforementioned media streamer as well as the new, much smaller Internet TV Player that's coming this summer for $199. It's very lightweight and has an HDMI output alongside two USB 2.0 ports. It's got YouTube support as well as North American, Europe, and Asia internet TV. The upscaled video looked good, although nothing that's gonna replace your HDTV anytime soon. One very nice feature is support for torrents that you can trigger remotely for download to the player (presumably on an attached disk drive here, as there's no internal storage from what we can tell). No word on codec support, but if they're touting torrents, we're hoping for at least some DivX / XviD and MKV love. The much larger and heavier granddaddy Elite, whos specs we've already heard care of the
FCC, is coming February for $399. A fun little feature touted in the presser allows you to pause a video on one TV and watch it on another -- provided you've got a separate Elite unit connected to each. The bad news? Neither device supports Hulu or Netflix, although a rep told us that they're
kinda sorta looking into adding the latter sometime in the future.
posted Jan 7th 2009 4:38PM
399? You could build a media computer for that price.
yep, i'll stick with my popcorn hours that cost less and play just about anything.
I read "pay per view" and left...
Entertainmer? Did you guys hire George W since he'll be out of a job soon???
Atom+NVIDIA +BOXEE =better and cheaper
This is very odd. I have a tiny box: same remote, same menu, same options.
http://www.mtabox.com/
though I bought that in November.
Is it their technology?
Will the real manufacturer of this device please stand up?
Netgear ?
Jadoo/MTA?
Verismo Networks ? http://www.vunow.com/
This looks like similar to VuNow PoD which is currently being sold by www.verismonetworks.com .. they are selling this for $149.
My Leopard will eat your Penguin!
I'll watch through my windows!
I reviewed the VuNow VN1000HD yesterday, which is the same as the Netgear Internet TV Player at: http://techvideoblog.com/reviews/vunow-vn1000hd-hi-def-pod/
yea but can it play movies you have stored on a home server? what will, who da hell wants to sit and watch youtube constantly
Is there any particular reason they made the Internet TV Player look like a cable box from the 1980s?