With all the external storage drives coming out these days, it’s only natural for some way to connect them to your home entertainment center without having to run them through a computer. LaCie’s LaCinema Classic Bridge aims to help you bridge that gap, providing enough connectivity options to turn your external or internal drives into a set top kit.
It’s a pretty simple concept made real pretty by LaCie’s minimalist gloss-black design. You can connect an external drive (such as an external USB drive or flash drive) by the external USB host port, or install an internal3.5-inch SATA hard disk into the compact black box. The LaCinema Classic Bridge then connects to your TV or home entertainment center through a component or HDMI cable and outputs HD 1080p, 720p and 480p resolutions.
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Your multimedia library can be sorted by files or through the graphic interface and can be accessed with the packaged remote. This kit is DivX-certified for playing high-quality compressed videos, but just about every common digital video, audio and photo format is supported for easy compatibility.
The LaCinema Classic Bridge is now available for $99 and comes with a 2-year warranty, but you’re going to pick up an internal hard drive yourself.
