Things must be looking up for the people at Slingbox, with their announcement at CES of the Slingcatcher, allowing content to be transmited on a Slingbox-connected TV to another TV set, either to one in the same house via a home network or to one in a remote location via the Internet.
According to Forbes, […]

901am reports on Netgear’s launch at CES of a new media player, the “Digital Entertainer HD”. Admittedly it does sound like a nice product, but do they have to tell lies in selling it:

“The Digital Entertainer HD is the first device that makes Youtube videos available on a television, claimed Netgear’s vice president of product […]

Zatz Not Funny has all the details on the three new sling boxes. Looks like a whole pile of improvements. Given I’ve personally got my house wired to the max with multiple PC’s at all major entertainment points it’s not something I’ll be buying, but worth a look.

CNet reviews the HP Pavilion Media Center TV:
“If you want to turn your den, home office, or dorm room into a home theater without making the move to an A/V-style form factor, the HP Pavilion Media Center TV m7360n offers the same media-friendly features we saw in the previous model, the HP Media Center m7260n […]

Apple has issued invites to the press for a special event. The invites asks select members of the media to attend to see some “fun” new products.
MacDaily news provides the photo above with these notes from the person who took the shot.
“I was only able to snap one quick shot of this as I […]

The non-profit Participatory Culture Foundation has launched Democracy, which they bill as the world’s first comprehensive open source internet TV system. The Democracy Player for Windows, Mac, and Linux completes the platform.
“The days of waiting for internet video to buffer and watching it in a tiny box are over,” says Participatory Culture Foundation co-founder Nicholas […]

Miglia Technology has announced an update for their EvolutionTV PVR for the Macintosh. The new 2.6 version is a free update for users of the device.
The updated software adds real time video compression for video iPods and Sony Playstation Portables (PSP), removing the need to go through software exporting to those devices.

BYOPVR has a 2Partsfusion SageTv, ATI X800, PVR150 MCE Giveaway on at the moment. Worth a look, one of my favorite reads.

This is one interesting looking MCE box… from I4U:
The Blueado Mini measures approx. 4.2×8×12 inches. It features a 200GB hard drive, TV-Tuner and a built-in DVD writer. Users can record about 250 hours of video with the Blueado Mini. An Intel Pentium M CPU and 1GB RAM are used in this system. The company says […]

CNN/ Business 2.0 have asked a couple of people to predict the future of Google, and there have already been rumors of Google entering the PVR market, but I found this section particularly interesting:
Some say it began with the launch of Google News, the company’s first media aggregation site, in 2002. Others point to Google […]