Networking developer Netgear ha announced its Digital Entertainer Elite media hub is now available worldwide, marking the company’s latest entry into the home media space. The Digital Entertainer Elite is aimed at serious media fans by streaming u to 1080p video—along with, of course, MP3 audio, digital photos, recorded TV, and more—over an in-home network. The device also ties in with services like Flickr, YouTube, and RSS feeds to bring the best of the Internet into the home entertainment experience.
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Netgear Ships Digital Entertainer HD
Netgear has announced the availability of its Digital Entertainer HD media receiver, intended to act as the living-room hub for digital entertainment—and give the forthcoming Apple TV a run for its money. The Digital Entertainer HD lets users use open standards to stream digital content to their televisions or home theater setups over their in-home network (via wired Ethernet or 802.11b/g Wi-Fi); the Digital Entertainer HD can pull in media from Windows and Macintosh computers, network-attached storage devices, and USB media. And it can also stream media from popular Internet media sources like YouTube, Flickr, and (ahem) BitTorrent.
Netgear Launches Digital Entertainer
The Digital Entertainer EVA700 is the company’s first Intel Viiv technology-verified digital media dapter allowing consumers to stream digital media, applications and services from PCs NAS drives, USB devices and the internet to TVs and home theater systems.
Although the Digital Entertainer EVA700 does not need an Intel Viiv PC to work, Netgear is working closely with Intel to offer content though the Intel Viiv Zone such as music videos, sports, TV shows, full length movies and other content.
Mad Dog Multimedia’s Entertainer 7.1 Review
Quote from the review at The Tech Report:
“Mad Dog Multimedia’s Entertainer 7.1 is one of the first discrete sound cards to use VIA’s mid-range Envy24HT-S audio controller, and it promises to deliver great sound for audio enthusiasts on a budget. I’ve put an Entertainer through a punishing trifecta of performance, quality, and listening tests to see if it can hold its own against its discrete competition, integrated motherboard audio, and even a high-end alternative. Read on to find out how the Entertainer fares.”


