Items Tagged With media player

Submission by Keith Finnett -  Let's get straight to the point - does Microsoft Windows work as an entertainment centre? If you read the computing press you'll know the answer is yes, no, and maybe. If you want one, you'll have to be an early adopter with deep pockets - most pre-built systems retail at around the £1,000 mark. There are some great looking systems out there (Elonex's range look very tempting), but few of them would look good in my living room - and certainly not at that price...

Well, it seems to be the season for networked audio players all right. Here's news on the latest incarnation of the SliMP3..."Squeezebox is a study in downtempo, modern design appropriate for any setting. It is a joy for the eyes as well as the ears...

The new Noxon networked music player is due soon and looks like an interesting device, especially if you want to listen to Internet radio stations without a the use of a PC.  Read on for the full specs...

One of the most popular projects that readers of Automated Home embark upon, is moving all of their media files (music, video, photos etc) onto a central server. Many of us have ripped our entire CD collections to MP3s on our hard drives over the last few years and, if you're like me, also taken the time to ensure they are tagged correctly and complete with album art.

Of course there have been a myriad of portable MP3 players that have enabled us to carry a selection of our tunes around with us. However, a similar product to allow us to access to an entire collection in the home environment has been a much rarer beast. Even though its five years since we reviewed our first domestic, networked mp3 player (the Dell Digital Audio Receiver) new devices of note have been relatively thin on the ground. The DDAR was a good first generation player and there have been a few other devices of note like the SliMP3 range, but nothing to really come close to the usability or design pinnacle of the ubiquitous Apple portable products. Until this year...

Submission by Keith Finnett - It's not often you can buy something that's well built, ergonomic and a great gadget for under £50 - but Microsoft have produced a piece of hardware that would be a steal at twice the price.

As a fully paid-up Windows Media Centre household we have become absolutely reliant on the PC that sits upstairs to provide our whole-house entertainment. Microsoft's latest version of Windows Media Centre (version 2005) gives us access to live and recorded TV, music and (camcorder) video, DVDs, our ever growing photo gallery, and most recently digital radio which mysteriously appeared with the installation of Rollup 2 even though my tuner cards (both from BlackGold) did not provide support for this...