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Friday, 04 January 2008 07:43
The new TV set-top boxes will connect wirelessly to computers running the Home Premium or Ultimate flavors of Windows Vista and enable users to use their TV sets to watch movies, TV shows and Internet video stored on their PCs.
The cheapest extender, from Cisco Systems Inc’s Linksys division, will cost $300. Linksys will have another model with a built-in DVD player for $350, a price matched by D-Link’s model, which lacks a DVD player but includes a USB port for viewing photos and other content stored on flash drives or hard drives.
Another extender is from Niveus and is aimed at home theater enthusiasts. No price was announced yet, but Microsoft product planner Hakan Olsson said it would be substantially higher than the other models. All the four come with remote controls.Microsoft had launched a different line of extenders a few years ago for the Windows XP Media Center Edition, but it never took off. The only extender available so far for Windows Vista been the Xbox 360 game console.
Other companies also are making extenders. Apple Inc in March introduced the $299 Apple TV, which shows content from a user’s iTunes library on a TV set.
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