Zensonic's Z400 802.11g digital media adapter

Wireless digital media adapters — you know, those little boxes hat connect to your PC over a home network so you can stream the audio and video files on it to your home entertainment setup — are a dime a dozen these days. THe only problem is that almost all of them use the slower 802.11b version of WiFi, which is fine if all you're doing is beaming music around your house, but trying to do the same with those episodes of Curb Your Enthusiasm you've downloaded because you're too cheap to sign up for HBO, well, that's another matter entirely. 802.11b just doesn't quite have enough bandwidth to handle streaming video — at least not reliably — which is why the debut of the first few wireless digital media adapters with 802.11g, which is nearly five times faster than 802.11b, is something actually worth getting excited about. Well, maybe not excited, but it is worth mentioning.

There are only a handful of them out there, and the latest to crop up is Zensonic's Z400, which besides being able to wirelessly stream MP3, WMA, and Ogg Vorbis audio files from your PC's hard drive to your stereo, also has the bandwidth to stream all sorts of different video files like MPEG1, MPEG2, MPEG4, QuickTime, and DivX to your television.