Thursday, March 10, 2005
Extreme Media Center Edition 2005 from Voodoo Computers
Posted by Jason Dunn in "HARDWARE" @ 03:00 PM
"Whoever said that you can't have your cake and eat it too was obviously up late hitting the pipe. Our latest creation, the Voodoo VIBE, is a mouth-watering entertainment creation, that mixes together all the best flavors of PC Power, XBOX Entertainment, TIVO Replay-TV and gives you the freedom to enjoy from anywhere in your home, with push-button remote control convenience. The Voodoo VIBE replaces your standard desktop PC and becomes the main media server in your home. With the optional VIBE XBOX you can stream all the media center features directly to your television via the custom VIBE XBOX making this one of the most unique personal computer experiences. Voodoo customers have always demanded the impossible and they routinely expect the unexpected which is why a delicious entertainment feast like the VIBE could ONLY be brought to you by your friends at Voodoo."
There's "Cool", and then there's "Holy @#@&* that's wickedly cool!". That's usually what I say when I look at new Voodoo releases - they happen to be based in my home town of Calgary, and in some small way I helped get them to the next level: years ago I snapped a few pictures of the amazingly clean wiring job they did on my new 1 Ghz Athlon PC, and sent them to the editor at Maximum PC magazine, extolling the virtues of the build quality Voodoo put into every system. A few months later Voodoo had their first system reviewed in Maximum PC (if memory serves it recieved a 9/10 Kick Ass rating) and that broke them into the mainstream media...and the rest, as they say, is history. Voodoo continues to innovate and come up with some of the coolest machines on the planet. Granted, I can't afford any of them, but hey, I can look and admire them from afar right? ;-)
They don't go into a lot of details, but this bundle looks like a spiffed-up version of what I have now: an MCE 2005 computer, Xbox, and the Media Center Extender kit. If you've got the bankroll, Voodoo has a computer that's more art than electronics.
There's "Cool", and then there's "Holy @#@&* that's wickedly cool!". That's usually what I say when I look at new Voodoo releases - they happen to be based in my home town of Calgary, and in some small way I helped get them to the next level: years ago I snapped a few pictures of the amazingly clean wiring job they did on my new 1 Ghz Athlon PC, and sent them to the editor at Maximum PC magazine, extolling the virtues of the build quality Voodoo put into every system. A few months later Voodoo had their first system reviewed in Maximum PC (if memory serves it recieved a 9/10 Kick Ass rating) and that broke them into the mainstream media...and the rest, as they say, is history. Voodoo continues to innovate and come up with some of the coolest machines on the planet. Granted, I can't afford any of them, but hey, I can look and admire them from afar right? ;-)
They don't go into a lot of details, but this bundle looks like a spiffed-up version of what I have now: an MCE 2005 computer, Xbox, and the Media Center Extender kit. If you've got the bankroll, Voodoo has a computer that's more art than electronics.
