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Stream your display all over the house with Black Box

by Iyaz Akhtar on Feb 27, 2009 at 07:15 PM
Black Box has come out with a video and audio solution over Ethernet

If you have ever tried to hook up a whole-house entertainment system, it can easily become a real pain since you have to pull a whole lot of cables around the house.  Black Box has come out with a new solution that allows for video and audio over Ethernet.  You can take one display and watch it all over your home.  This greatly simplifies installation of your networked home entertainment system since you would only have to run Ethernet cable. 

Black Box has three different devices to handle this content delivery system.  Two of the devices are transmitters.  Of those two, one of them is a PCI-e card that you would install into your system.  Another is a stand alone box.  The remaining device is a receiver.  You would just need to feed a transmitter your video and audio and be able to receive it wherever you have a Black Box receiver.  This an interesting way to get some video on to an HDTV without directly hooking up a computer to it.

All of these devices are pricey.  The receiver is $975.  The stand alone receiver is $1395 and the PCI-e is $1255.  While the video can be up to 1080p in resolution, the audio is only stereo.  That’s a bit of a downer considering the price.  For a lower priced alternative, the ZvBox is only $499 and works using coaxial cable. 

Read: [CE Daily News]
Product Page: [BlackBox.com]

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  • pc repair said:

    this box is very good but is very costly and hard to buy for everyone if it price get down then can be buy from the viewer but no doubt it great thing

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