Monday, March 8, 2004
Making the DVD Player the Center of the Digital Media Household
Posted by Jason Dunn in "NEWS" @ 08:22 PM
"As PC and consumer electronics vendors work to move digital media off your PC and into your living room, they're calling on a familiar favorite to lead the way: the DVD player. DVD players and recorders have a great advantage over many other approaches to creating a digital home: They are well-established living room products that connect to a TV, the traditional centerpiece of a home entertainment system. Add high-speed wireless networking to distribute content, and you have a product set that many vendors believe will appeal to people likely to avoid seemingly complex media center PCs, media servers, and similar products."
Interesting article - it seems vendors are taking two approaches to this. Some are focusing on adding local functionality to the DVD player, like a hard drive and DVD burning, while other vendors are adding wireless access and pumping media from the user's main computer. Which approach do you think is more viable? Myself, I favour keeping my media on a PC, which gives me the ability to manipulate the data, back it up, etc. The article talks about a new product from HP called the HP Entertainment Hub that sounds like it might be a killer solution...go read the article and tell me what you think.
Interesting article - it seems vendors are taking two approaches to this. Some are focusing on adding local functionality to the DVD player, like a hard drive and DVD burning, while other vendors are adding wireless access and pumping media from the user's main computer. Which approach do you think is more viable? Myself, I favour keeping my media on a PC, which gives me the ability to manipulate the data, back it up, etc. The article talks about a new product from HP called the HP Entertainment Hub that sounds like it might be a killer solution...go read the article and tell me what you think.
