Western Digital has just updated their line of media players with the WD TV Live Hub that pretty much ties a lot of different devices into this one box. Like every other WD TV device, it’s a full HD media center for playing movies, music and photos, and it’s a network drive with 1TB of storage space for serving up media to either an HDTV.
If you’re one of those people who relies heavily on networked equipment at home (desktops, laptops, consoles, net-connected appliances such as set-top boxes and HDTVs), Asus was thinking of you when they introduced this kit, a consumer-level server called the Home Server TS mini, to give you a centralized place to dump and retrieve the data across different devices.
LaCie has just announced ther LaCinema Classic HD, a media server/player that can store photos, music and videos into its 1TB drive, and play them back to an HDTV via an HDMI connection.
Olive has just released the Olive 4HD, a music server that features an internal 2TB drive that can hold up to 20,000 HD audio tracks or 6,000 CD-quality songs. Olive puts a lot of premium into sound quality though, and the 4HD is specced for audiophiles, with a high resolution digital to analog converter (Texas Instruments’ 192khz, 24-bit Burr-Brown PCM1792A DAC) for clear highs and lows.
Myka’s ION is a very compact nettop built to entertain. Meant to be used as a multimedia hub for the living room—as opposed to the PC in the study—the Myka ION features an efficient system that includes Intel’s 1.6GHz dual core Atom 330 processor and Nvidia’s ION platform for serving up high-def content from internet streaming sites straight into an HDTV.
