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Watch the video after the jump as Danny from MavroMatic reviews the Linksys DMA 2100 Media Center Extender...

The new software update for the AppleTV was released just last night.  The update brings a completely new UI and with it HD movie rentals (available now in the US and coming later this year in the UK) but still no DivX / XviD playback.  However, full-time podcaster Don McAllister gives us his first impression on the new interface, and tells us why we should be excited about the huge selection of free content we can stream direct to our living rooms...

Keene Electronics have added a new  affordable (£46) 4 port HDMI switcher with IR Remote Control - "from ATEN, the VS481 is a high quality yet amazingly low cost 4 port HDMI Switchbox that allows you to quickly and easily share your HDMI display device with 4 HDMI input sources. Ideal for DVD players, Satellite receivers, DV camcorders etc. Input selection is via a remote control unit or front panel pushbuttons...

Home automators love personal video recorders. A lot of us employ several of them around the home and use IP to stream recordings for different users to different rooms.  Already office apps (like Google Docs) are moving on-line so I suppose it shouldn't come as any great surprise that now the PVR is moving up to the cloud as well.  TVCatchUp is a free service recording from the UKs FreeView channels and storing them online so you can stream them to any PC with web access...

This morning I was primed to settle down to a normal day's work when Chaos on the UK Home Automation IRC Channel mentioned something about "B&Qs HomeEasy automation stuff", and that pretty much put paid to the rest of the morning. We turfed up the website but there was precious little information on there besides the usual marketing guff. So, time for an in-depth review for Automated Home.  Is this the successor to X10 I've been looking for?  Read on to find out and check out the rest of the photos and the video...