Jon Bentley from Channel 5's Gadget Show has taken the Philips Streamium MCI500H for a test drive.   The system can hold around 8,000 tracks on its own built in 160GB hard drive as well as streaming from other media sources around your home like PCs. 

it features both wired Ethernet and WiFi, FM and Internet Radio and a top mounted USB socket for playing from a thumb drive.  The £500 system supports DRM free MP3 files, AAC and WMAs (of the non-lossless variety). Check out the video afer the jump...

After many months of waiting Sling Media have just released the SlingPlayer Mobile for the iPhone.  At £17.99 it's probably the most expensive app we've bought to date, but is it any good?  Read on to find out and check out the rest of the screenshots...

As energy prices concentrate all our minds on saving electricity, those of us with multiple home servers are looking for ways to consolidate into fewer machines that need to be running 24/7.  Now that VMWare ESXi is free, there's never been a better time to virtualise your servers.  Is not all good news though, with access to certain hardware from virtual machines is still troublesome or impossible.  Read on for one home automators experience moving his home into the virtual world...

Back in the summer I wrote about replacing our aging AV Amp at the heart of our Home Cinema system.  We knew the builders were coming to fit a wood burning stove and so the room needed to be gutted - the perfect excuse to move our home theater into the HiDef world.  The work was completed last December, all except for one vital componant - the new Mac mini.

At last we now have the fantastic user experience of the XBMC days, along with the horse power to play 1080P content.  Here's our quick video on setting the mini up as an HD media player ("basic" 2.0Ghz / 1Gb RAM moodel)...

The Aviosys IP Power 9212 is an inexpensive way to add 8 inputs and 8 outputs to your home automation system that are network addressable either from your LAN or from anywhere in the world via the Internet.  Read on for the mini-review...

We've spent may hours with Drobo and DroboShare over the last few weeks preparing our review. We've finally put down the camera, finished the text and graphics so today we can published our findings.  Read on for the in-depth review including video, photos, graphs and screen grabs from Windows, Mac and Linux.  Oh, and our verdict on Drobo too....

While we wait for Logitechs UK PR company to send us our review sample, Automated Home Reader Tim Morris has sent us his own review of the new Squeezebox Duet streaming audio system... 

Danny from Mavromatic recently reviewed the Logitech Harmony One.  This new universal remote uses a 2.2" colour capacitive touchscreen, but also employs lots of physical buttons that give the "feel" that touchscreen only remotes struggle to provide.  Watch the video after the jump for Danny's verdict...