Digital Media Player

If you are one of the 2.5 million WD TV media player owners out there, you'll be glad to know that WD just made TuneIn Radio and Deezer content available to the WD TV Live media player family.

TuneIn Radio is the world's largest Internet radio guide with access to over 30,000 free radio stations, searchable by location, genre, or format; and Deezer, one of the most popular Internet and mobile music offerings in Europe, is a personalized on-demand music service with 7 million tracks that you can listen to anytime, anywhere.

TuneIn Radio is now available on the WD TV Live network media player, WD TV Live Plus media player. Deezer (already available on WD TV Live and WD TV Live Plus) is now being added to WD TV Live Hub media center. Read more

You've heard us give praise to Meridian's Sooloos digital media systems in the past and today at CES they unveiled the Meridian Sooloos Media Core 200 Digital Media System, an all in one Sooloos System with enough internal storage for up to 1000 CDs in full lossless quality via its internal 500GB drive. This compact system can be operated by any of the network-based control systems available, including the iPad or iPhone App, a computer running the Control PC or Control Mac application, or a Meridian Sooloos controller such as the Control 15 or Control 10.

Easy to set up, Media Core 200 connects to the Internet so you can listen to streamed audio services, as well as import your iTunes library (or other digital music library) via the free Meridian Sooloos software tools. Media Core 200 can also be networked to any other Meridian Sooloos product, adding extra storage or zones.Read more

The holiday season is here. Time is often spent at family get-togethers viewing photos, videos and other multimedia content reminiscing about vacations and events from the past year. Don't make your friends and family crowd around the computer; why not watch your multimedia content on your TV?

The Nixeus Fusion HD allows you to do just that. Nixeus Fusion HD is a full HD Network (Wi-Fi N and Ethernet) multimedia player that offers playback of your digital movies, photos, and music on your TV or any other device connected to a home network. Equipped with both USB and eSATA ports, simply install a SATA Hard Drive or plug-in an external hard drive or other digital memory into the unit, connect the Fusion HD to your HDTV and transfer your digital content from your camera, laptop etc. to the device. You can then show off slideshows, photos or stream video from YouTube, Fusion Channel, Flickr, Live 365, BitTorrent, RSS, and more...Read more

WD this week announced that the WD TV Live HD media player is the first network media player compatible with Windows 7. Using the Windows 7 Play To feature, the WD TV Live HD media player allows you to stream music, view videos and pictures stored on USB and your home network PC on your big screen TV.

Any compatible media file accessible from the PC can be played to the WD TV Live by right clicking on the file name in the folder or directly from within Windows Media Player 12 and choosing the WD TV Live HD media player as the playback device. Read more

ViewSonic today announced a new palm-sized media player, the VPD400 MovieBook. It features a 4.3-inch high-resolution screen, 8GB of internal memory, an extendable Micro SD storage slot and features a battery life of up to 12 hours of audio and up to six hours of video.

The VPD400 MovieBook plays HD movies and video (with optional subtitles), as well as lets you share photo albums, read digital books, record voice memos, and of course, listen to music. It supports the following video and audio formats: AVI, MKV, FLV, MPG, MOV, MPG, VOB, RM/RMVB and H.264 for video and MP3, WMA, WAV, FLAC and DTS/AC3 for audio.

The ViewSonic VPD400 MovieBook is available today for $129.99.Read more

ViewSonic this week announced the new VMP70 media player box, a new device that makes viewing Full HD 1080p multimedia easy. Simply insert a USB or external hard drive into the player and watch HD movies and TV shows on your television. You can view photos and listen to music as well. It also includes an S/PDIF port for surround sound connectivity, HDMI cable and a remote control. Sound expensive? It's not. It is available now for under $100.

The VMP70 weighs less than one pound and supports more video and audio formats than any media player available today, including MPEG1/2/4, Divx/Xvid, MKV, H.264, VC-1, WMV9, RM/RMVB, DTS, Dolby Digital, WMA, MP3, FLAC, OGG and MKA to name a few. Connectivity options include HDMI, Component, composite, S/PDIF and duo USB drive slots.

The VMP70 is now available for an MSRP of $129.99 with a promotional holiday price of $98.99.

Microsoft announced this week that the Zune HD media player is now available for pre-order and will be in stores on September 15th.

The new media player includes multi-touch navigation, 16:9 OLED display, integrated HD Radio receiver, HD video output capabilities, built-in Wi-Fi and web browser, as well as a touchscreen QWERTY keyboard.

The Zune HD will be available in 16GB and 32GB. Pre-orders are available now at Amazon.com, Best Buy, Walmart, and Microsoft. The 16GB will sell for $219.99, the 32GB, $289.99.

MvixUSA has announced the worldwide launch of the Mvix Ultio, a Hard-Disk Based media center capable of HD digital media playback with video output as high as 1080p and support for the largest array of AV formats and codecs ever by any media player.

Ultio's high-end video processing doesn't just play Blu-Ray quality video, it allows you to store entire Hi-Definition media on its internal hard drive, plug it into a TV via a HDMI and enjoy movies, digital music and family photos on large LCD or Plasma. The flexibility and scalability of Ultio makes it easy to play HD movies or home videos. Ultio supports most 1080p HD video codecs, and formats such as H.264, MKV, Dixv HD, MOV, VC-1, FLV, etc. It is also capable of playing unique formats such as AVC-HD and FLAC!Read more

NETGEAR's new Digital Entertainer Elite (EVA9150) is a new digital media player that lets you stream your digital content (video, MP3s, photos, recorded TV shows) over your home network to your HDTV. And with its 500GB hard drive, the Digital Entertainer Elite is the largest capacity home video jukebox currently on the market.

The Digital Entertainer Elite works with Windows, Mac and Linux computers, and Network Attached Storage (NAS) devices. It features two USB ports so you can access your content from a USB flash drive, digital camera, iPod or other USB storage device. The Digital Entertainer Elite also doesn't require a UPNP server running on your machine. Searching is done directly on the device, so you can navigate content on multiple PCs (and devices) at the same time. To make it even easier, the Digital Entertainer Elite automatically finds all digital media files on your home network and organizes them into a library.

Jumping on the "green" bandwagon, the Digital Entertainer Elite is environmentally friendly with features such as an energy-efficient power supply and auto-sleep mode which uses as little as .01 watts.Read more