Do you want to be able to send pictures, music and movies around the house, from one PC, TV or stereo to another? Many major consumer electronics companies are convinced you do, judging by the number of networkable products that were discussed at yesterday’s CES press conferences.
Toshiba’s newest HD-DVD player, out later this year, will include Ethernet connectivity, allowing you to download content that’s featured on certain HD DVD discs. The connection will also be used to upgrade player features by downloading new versions of its operating software.
As it did last year, Sharp discussed its networked Aquos TV, a proof-of-concept product that would use a home’s powerlines to access and move content around the house.
Samsung will introduce a plasma TV that can be connected wirelessly to a cable or satellite box. It also will sell a model that uses Bluetooth technology to wirelessly send photographs that are shown on a TV, to a printer.
And Netgear’s new Digital Entertainer HD will allow you to stop a program you’re watching in one room, and then pick up where you left off in another. The hitch–each room in which you want to try that feat requires its own $350 box.
January 8, 2007,
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