Thursday, December 23, 2004
Netgear Unveils Home Media Player - Windows Media Not Supported
Posted by James Fee in "ARTICLE" @ 09:00 AM
"Computer network hardware manufacturer Netgear has joined the race to dominate the living room, unveiling a new product that will let users access pictures, music and video from anywhere in their wireless home network. Released Wednesday, the Netgear Wireless Digital Media Player does not require a computer for playback. Instead, users can listen and view multimedia through their television set and home entertainment system. The unit comes with built-in software and a remote control that allows for use anywhere where there is a television, as long as it is within range of the wireless network."
OK, I'm all for more of these wireless media players, but why on earth would you release one that didn't support WMV? If the point is to free me from using my PC, wouldn't one think that they would want to support a format that is practically the default on Windows PCs? Vivek Pathela, Netgear Director of Product Management said, "Now, even average users can experience their entire collection of digital content in full glory without being tied to a PC". Sure every "average" user has all their videos in MPEG.
Well I guess either these companies are going to have to stop using Linux as the basis for these players, or convince Microsoft to release WMP for Linux. Wonder which one is more likely to happen first. :roll:
OK, I'm all for more of these wireless media players, but why on earth would you release one that didn't support WMV? If the point is to free me from using my PC, wouldn't one think that they would want to support a format that is practically the default on Windows PCs? Vivek Pathela, Netgear Director of Product Management said, "Now, even average users can experience their entire collection of digital content in full glory without being tied to a PC". Sure every "average" user has all their videos in MPEG.
Well I guess either these companies are going to have to stop using Linux as the basis for these players, or convince Microsoft to release WMP for Linux. Wonder which one is more likely to happen first. :roll:
