media player

At last month CE Show in Las Vegas Netgear demonstrated how they have grown with consumers demand for flexibility and their uniqueness to consume rich media content.  Netgear has shown that whether we need gadgets for:  rich content streaming, home media storage, internet access or connectivity within the home, they have got all bases covered.

Gigle announced that Spanish company Blusens international is to use its MediaXtream Homeplug AV chip in the BluBrain Entertainment Center.  The BluBrain Entertainment Center has integrated Gigle’s GGL541, a single chip solution that offers the highest performance of any wireline IC, with both a 1Gbps any wire channel and 200 Mbps over Powerline using Homeplug AV standard.

Roku recently added two more devices to its range of media streamers; these were the Roku SD and Roku HD-XR media players.  The Roku media players allow you to stream instant entertainment from Netflix, Amazon Video on Demand and MLB.tv. The Roku players come in three different price range $79.99, $99.99, $129.99. Roku also announced that they will be launching a channel store where customers can add new content channels to their Roku device.

Iomega and EMC announced the European availability of a new family of Iomega ScreenPlay HD Media Player products, including the top of the line Iomega ScreenPlay Director HD Media Player, a feature-rich HD media player that makes it easier than ever to browse your home network for stored videos to view on your TV, directly access online content from popular Internet sites, and much more.

Seagate last month introduced two new products for home theatres and home networkds, the FreeAgent Theatre and Media Player and the FreeAgent Dockstar.  According to Seagate both devices are to help us manage our home entertainment libraries.  In most homes we store our movies, downloaded videos, music and digital photos on different Medias and in different places.  The FreeAgent Theatre and Media player and FreeAgent Dockstar will help you to access, manage and enjoy these from one central location.

Olive, the company creating a new standard in high quality digital music experiences, today unveiled a new generation of its Opus Hi-Fi Digital Stereo, including an unprecedented two terabyte version of its flagship Opus No. 4.

Mvix(USA), announces 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 supporting the largest array of AV formats and codecs ever supported by any media player.

ZINNET today unveiled the brite-View(TM) CinemaCube, a high-definition multi-media player and BitTorrent downloader with networking capabilities, and Air HD, a wireless HD transmission and receiver kit that sends uncompressed HD content to your HDTV.

Renesas Technology announced the SH-MobileHD1 application processor (product number: SH7370), the first in the industry to deliver low-power Full High-Definition (1,920 × 1,080 pixels, abbreviated “Full HD”) video recording, playback, and streaming support key for the next generation of IP video applications. Sample shipments will begin on April 23, 2009 in Japan.

Communication and high-performance processors provider RMI Corporation, announced the availability of its Home Media Player® Application Development Kit (ADK) challenging the television and the PC for multimedia consumption in the home.