New Media Companies Turning Traditional Media Outlets Upside Down

Two news items caught my eye Friday in gadget news. First, Apple iTunes increased its dominance as the top domestic music e-tailer. iTunes overtook Walmart in 2008 when it reached 21.42% and now iTunes has captured 26.65% of the overall market. Walmart had 14.99% in 2008 and dropped to 12.54% and retains the second spot.… Continue reading New Media Companies Turning Traditional Media Outlets Upside Down

Netgear’s PTV1000 puts your laptop’s display on your HDTV wirelessly

Without needing a media streamer device, the Netgear PTV100 Push2TV gadget can display anything from a laptop with Intel’s Wireless Display technology.  The PTV1000 is a small lightweight box that connects to your HDTV via HDMI and connects to your laptop wirelessly via 802.11. The PTV1000 can also connect via AV composite. Buy now! More… Continue reading Netgear’s PTV1000 puts your laptop’s display on your HDTV wirelessly

Mvix updates Ultio media player – Ultio Pro can now record with DVR

MvixUSA has updated their flagship media center product, the Ultio, to now include DVR (digital video recording) capabilities. The Ultio Pro plays back Blu-ray quality 1080p hi-def video, photos, and music on your high-def TV via HDMI and stores it all on its internal hard drive which you can get as large as 2TB. And… Continue reading Mvix updates Ultio media player – Ultio Pro can now record with DVR

CES 2010: Boxee and D-Link Announce Boxee Box Media Center

Boxee has teamed up with D-Link to produce the Boxee Box, a hardware version of their popular software. The Boxee Box brings TV shows, movies and other Internet content to your TV without a PC a la many other media center boxes. One of the main ideas behind Boxee is to eliminate the pain of… Continue reading CES 2010: Boxee and D-Link Announce Boxee Box Media Center

Kodak Theatre HD Media Player

Kodak is the latest vendor to enter the media player market. They’ve named their product simply Theatre HD Player, although their website implies there may be more models to come. The Theatre HD Player (we’ll shorten it to THP) connects to your HDTV (via HDMI if you’d like) and to your network either via Ethernet… Continue reading Kodak Theatre HD Media Player

Easy iPod Media Sharer – transfer content to other iPods directly

Everyone knows the feeling of seeing your friends have thousands of songs on their iPod, while you only have a measly collection in comparison. The Easy iPod Media Sharer allows two iPods to transfer songs, videos, and files between two iPods. Of course, any songs transferred with digital rights management (DRM), mainly songs bought through… Continue reading Easy iPod Media Sharer – transfer content to other iPods directly

MvixUSA rolling out next-generation Media Center player

According to a report on MvixCommunity, MvixUSA is set to announce and ship a new product in their media center line. Dubbed the Ultio, this media center will handle numerous new formats such as FLAC, MKV, H.264, is also rumored to include an embedded UPnP and a bittorent client. Read the full post at MvixCommunity.

GigaTribe File Sharing Application

GigaTribe is a new file sharing service that allows you to share files between friends. The major difference between GigaTribe and other file sharing applications is that it’s secure; you only share files within your ‘personal circle’ which means that you can control who can receive them, whereas usually in file sharing everyone around the… Continue reading GigaTribe File Sharing Application