It was just back in April when a software developer on The Green Button forum suggested that the community should get together and produce an open-source clone of Niveus' Movie Library – an add-on application first demo'd at EHX in March that exclusively provided Niveus PC users a way to manage their DVDs, stored video, [...]

Building on a groundbreaking technology partnership announced earlier this year, LG Electronics and Netflix, Inc. today announced plans for the first Blu-ray disc player that will have the added benefit of being able to instantly stream a growing library of movies and TV episodes from Netflix directly to the TV. Available this fall, the LG BD300 [...]

The rapid growth in digital content libraries will push worldwide sales of network-attached storage devices to nearly 13 million units by 2012, according to Parks Associates’ Home Servers and Consumer Storage: Analysis and Forecasts. “Current file storage solutions are not equipped to handle consumers’ ever-growing libraries of digital photos, music, and video,” said Jane Shields, research [...]

Dell’s smallest, most personalized and most environmentally responsible consumer PC, the Studio Hybrid, launches today. Available immediately at www.dell.com/hybrid, the PC’s new unique shape and size, personalized with six optional, external jewel-toned color or bamboo sleeves, unleashes stylistic expression, inspiration and fun and looks great in any room. Dell also unveiled two new Inspiron PCs, including [...]

While the rest of the consumer electronics and pay-TV worlds are still stuck in more traditional native code environments, the push for online video and social communities in the living room has resulted in ever-increasing interest in HTML and other web-based technologies on consumer TVs. “ABI Research sees a strong push by some in the consumer [...]

Consumer electronics products no longer exist in a vacuum: increasingly they are linked to each other via a number of short-range radio technologies. CE vendors, faced with a series of overlapping use-cases, network areas, standards, and technologies, need to understand the applications best suited to each, and how they relate to each other. Fortunately, short-range networking [...]

It is getting faster and easier for consumer electronics (CE) manufacturers to create devices that can find, store and play digital media in the home. Macrovision® Solutions Corporation today launched the latest version of its Connected Platform, a comprehensive solution for discovering, managing and enjoying digital media on a variety of connected CE devices. With [...]

Off site storage company, Datto Inc, released its newest line of backup devices: the Z Series. The new model enables customers to keep snapshots of various stages of their files while simultaneously allowing lightning speed data transfers as a result of the dual gigabit ethernet and 1.5 GHZ processor used within each device. Z Series Datto [...]