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DViCO TViX HD M6500A Media Streamer

Written by Ofer LaOr

Published on 21 July 2008

I found both video and audio quality of the TViX M6500A to be exceptional, and over the last few months, some of the firmware updates have already made this unit significantly more stable and better than its previous versions. Given that DViCO has been quite adamant in providing support for existing products and continually improving them, I have no doubt they will succeed in turning this unit into an ever more powerful item over the upcoming months.

HD Digitech HDX900 HDTV Media Streamer

Written by Ofer LaOr

Published on 16 June 2008

The HDX900 is an HDTV streamer based on the Network Media Tank (NMT) middleware platform by Syabas. If you don't know what a streamer is yet, think of the AppleTV but without any of the Apple restrictions. Consider a player that will play all of your movies, in file format, including Blu-ray, DVDs, or any popular format you might have on your computer hard drive, as well as pictures and audio, but doesn't require you to pay a monthly iTunes bill.

DViCO TViX HD-M4100SH Media Streamer

Written by Ofer LaOr

Published on 26 December 2007

Over the last two years, the Korean company DViCO has proven to be a worthwhile player in the media streamer market. The company is now producing its third generation in the TViX family of products: the TViX HD-M4100SH.

mStation 2.1 iPod Dock Amplified Tower Speaker System

Written by Jared Rachwalski

Published on 21 April 2008

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The mStation 2.1 tower is an all in one solution for taking your iPod music out of your ears and into your room. The tower consists of one down firing 5.25" woofer, and two speaker modules with 2 – 2" midrange and 1 – 1" tweeter per speaker. There is a docking station a USB port and a 1/8" (3.5mm) stereo miniplug jack. All in a four foot tall, 14" wide aluminum tower.

The SACD Player Review Archives

Written by Staff

Published on 16 November 2007

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Qsonix Q110 Media Server

Written by John E. Johnson, Jr.

Published on 04 February 2008

The Qsonix Q110 is a media server meant to be put in by a custom installer, but you can do it yourself because it is very easy to work with. It has a 250 GB hard drive that will hold hundreds of CDs in lossless compression format and serves four zones simultaneously. The user interface is a dream and employs a touchscreen that has drag and drop functionality, using your finger to bring music into the que for playback.

The CD Player Review Archives

Written by Staff

Published on 16 November 2007

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Microsoft Zune 80GB Portable Music Player

Written by Paul Taatjes

Published on 30 January 2008

The portable music player (PMP) or digital audio player (DAP) market is evolving in a major way. Many DAPs are actually better described as personal media players or PMPs, with as much focus on functionality in video and additional features as the core audio performance. Another major paradigm shift is the move to flash memory based devices, and correspondingly…away from hard drives, but for some users, flash still doesn't offer the needed storage capacity.