media centers

Asus Nova Lite: Bringing sexy back to Media Centers

Crave It's designed primarily for use as a Media Center machine. It has buttons and infrared beams so you can control your media without getting off your bum. With the world anxiously awaiting the Asus Eee Box, it's all too easy to overlook the company's...

26 June 2008, 12:53 > More matches in Crave

Sky to offer video-on-demand to Media Centers

News In his keynote speech at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas, Gates said the pair are to team up to offer video-on-demand to Microsoft Media Center users. Microsoft head honcho Bill Gates has revealed the software giant is getting into...

5 January 2006, 14:44 > More matches in News

Moore Medio review

Reviews Unlike the other Media Centers we've tested, the Medio didn't pester us for information about user accounts we'd like to set up, or bombard us with pointless help documents. Where other Media Centers are blighted by wobbly CD trays and flimsy...

Editor's rating   7.6

Tags: moore innovations, manufacturers, signal, cinema

15 May 2005, 13:29 > More matches in Reviews

Toshiba: 'Laptops will be bigger than desktops by 2007'

Crave With a brand new Qosmio laptop for 2005, it seems that Toshiba is rather more excited about Media Centers than our computer expert Chris. We'll have to wait until the end of the year before they incorporate digital TV tuners, but in the meantime...

Tags: toshiba, laptop, models, media centers

23 June 2005, 14:23 > More matches in Crave

Evesham ebox review

Reviews We soon discovered that although our review model was a feisty-looking creature, the frustrations we'd experienced with other Media Centers were matched here. The noise, heat and sheer wastefulness of most Media Centers makes them hard to recommend...

Editor's rating   6.3

Tags: evesham technology, television, slot, loading

7 June 2005, 15:21 > More matches in Reviews

WinJukebox

Downloads While computers are often used as media centers, existing software does not provide the simplicity of an old jukebox. WinJukeBox is a media player and organizer that emulates a real music machine. Have you ever tried to control your music software...

10 October 2007, 14:16 > More matches in Downloads

Video reviews round-up: New videos, please!

Crave First up, from mini laptops to Media Centers, we've got enough PC video reviews to cover Henman Hill. For home cinema fans, the Asus Nova Lite Mini 2L video review provides a low-cost and attractive Media Center PC option.

Tags: lg, mini, capturing, wii

7 July 2008, 11:00 > More matches in Crave

Xbox 360: information overload

Crave Expect network support to increase as well, as Microsoft wants us all to upgrade to Media Centers -- so 802.11g will be included as standard, you can stream media across from your PC, and there are USB ports for connecting your portable music player.

Tags: microsoft, console, high definition, xbox

13 May 2005, 11:27 > More matches in Crave

Photos from IFA 2006: See the Ambilight with Philips

Crave Philips final Blu-ray offering is a pair of Showline Media Centers with Blu-ray Disc drives, the MCP9480i and MCP8480i. Philips has already introduced 25GB single-layer BD-R (recordable) and BD-RE (recordable and erasable) media capable of holding...

4 September 2006, 12:31 > More matches in Crave

Intel and Microsoft team up for entertainment PCs

News Microsoft said it is also seeing growth in software written specifically to be run on Media Centers using only a remote control. Intel has launched a new brand, Viiv, that labels PCs containing Intel chips, Microsoft's Media Center OS and other...

5 January 2006, 10:52 > More matches in News

Crave Talk: Is Origami the future?

Crave Other casualties have included Apple's Newton, and more recently Microsoft's own Portable Media Centers. It's too small to be used as a home video player, too large to be used as a portable media device and far too fiddly to work as a serious...

Tags: microsoft, field, ultra, host

15 March 2006, 8:00 > More matches in Crave

Dell W2600 review

Reviews All Media Centers come with this connection as standard, and expect more and more DVD players to follow suit, in addition to next-generation games consoles. The situation is improved by connecting it to a Media Center PC, but you will find that...

Editor's rating   7

Tags: dell, budget, high definition, television

15 May 2005, 17:59 > More matches in Reviews

Hillary Clinton launches games-rating ads

News Earlier this year, both senators called for the Centers for Disease Control to study the impact of electronic-media use on children. I have long said that the ESRB ratings are the most comprehensive in the media industry," Lieberman noted.

11 December 2006, 8:57 > More matches in News

Elonex Artisan: a thing of beauty

Crave Not only did it actually work (a minor feat, yet seemingly beyond most Media Centers), but even more bizarrely, we could hold down our breakfast after looking at it. Just when we'd given up on Media Center PCs as a bad job, the Elonex Artisan...

Tags: elonex, pcs, media center, media center pc

9 June 2005, 11:21 > More matches in Crave

Scarily good fun: Elonex Lumina

Crave We're more used to Media Centers behaving like fussy eaters -- refusing this monitor, turning a nose up at that video source. Yet again the gods have smiled on our hideous faces and granted us a Media Center PC that's fully functional out of the box.

Tags: elonex, television, lcd, media center

13 June 2005, 11:15 > More matches in Crave