Multimedia-PCs

The Sony BDP-S300 has dropped below the $200 price point.  Sony is going to sell a lot of units if they keep hitting this price point.  I wonder how the other manufacters are going to compete.  It’s on sale at Amazon while supplies last so be fast with that order.
(via EngadgetHD)

A member of the MediaSmart Server community has stuffed a popcorn hour into his MediaSmart Server case.  Not only is this a very cool idea, he did a great job with customizing the case.  He did loose one of the four drive bays with the mod.  Like he said 3TB of storage should be alright. [...]

SnapStream the creators of BeyondTV have added placeshifting to it’s newest beta. The cool thing about this is it uses Microsoft’s Silverlight for doing so. Silverlight is what powered the Olympic online coverage.  If you’re not familiar with BeyondTV it is Media Center application that allows you to record TV and organize your [...]

You can now pre-order the SlingCatcher and Slingbox Pro-HD.  They don’t have it posted when they will be available but I would expect that both will have a big pre-orders.  The Pro-HD will do 1080i and 5.1 surround to many different sources.  There is a video of the SlingCatcher below but Dave Zatz says the [...]

Dell has released a new video of the new Dell Latitude E4200 vs the MacBook Air.  The Dell E4200 is a nice small laptop but the video isn’t the greatest.  If they wanted to compare the Air to a Dell they should use same screen size and keyboard.  Tuck the same size keyboard and screen [...]

Apple’s “Lets Rock” event was today where they released a new iPod nano and iPod Touch. They also announced new 2.1 software which was supposed to address some issues with backing up and apps crashing. The download is on Apple’s server now and you can find it here for the first gen iPod [...]

Crestron at CEDIA demoed an iPhone application to control your home automation. EngadgetHD has a gallery of pictures and some more information. The app isn’t available right now on the app store. It will be another 60 days before it’s up there. The good news is it will be free. [...]

You can now add Hulu content onto your Divx Connected box.  All you need is the new Divx Connected beta software and a few plug-ins.  You can follow the directions found on Connunity.  I have stayed away from the Divx Connected device because of price.  But adding Hulu and other online video sites to it [...]

There has been news spreading around today about Tivo coming back to DirecTV.  This is good news for the people that really like the Tivo software.  Dave Zatz has posted something different.  He has posted that the Tivo software might run on DirecTV hardware.  If that turns out to be true this would open the [...]

Ben Drawbaugh of Engadget HD reviews the new HP MediaSmart Connect.  The HP MediaSmart Connect is a Windows Media Center extender.  With a price of $350 is wouldn’t be my first choice as an extender but it does offer the MediaSmart UI if you like that.  Overall the review by Ben wasn’t that impressive.  Some [...]