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At the Netgear Press Conference this year at the Consumer Electronics Show, the company released the new Digital Entertainer HD. The product’s aim is to make all of the media files on your home network accessible via your TV. The unit hits practically every popular media format including but not limited to - MP3, WAV, WMA, unprotected AAC, and FLAC for audio - as well as MPEG 1, MPEG 2, MPEG 4, AVI, WMV, and XVID for video. It will also display your digital photos in the following formats: JPEG, BMP, PNG, and TIFF in the photo formats.
One revolutionary thing that I was impressed with was that this device will even bring YouTube videos to your home theater. When asked if they had a content partnership with YouTube, they gave a shady answser - which pretty much revealed there was no partnerhip at this time. The engineer said that they are patching into YouTube’s publically available API. I’m not going to go through the rest of the details, because this this is truely specced out. I’m hoping to see some adoption, because THIS is the type of device that “breaks the Digital Divide.“ Got that Bill Gates?
The Digital Entertainer HD is expected to hit online retailers and stores in Q1 2007 for $349.
Netgear Press Conference [Gadgetell]
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