Giada Android Computer Multimedia

Giada Q11 Android OS Mini PC Review

" Giada is a Chinese company with an active presence in the area of cloud-computing equipment. According to their "About Us" page, the brand name "Giada" is derived from the Italian word for "Jade", which symbolizes the quality and style of each and every product they produce. We find mini- and slim-PC systems, barebones, fanless mini systems, tablets, ARM based PCs, and even a motherboard for NAS servers amongst their products. In this review, we will focus on their ARM-based mini PC with model number Q11. "

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 Pivos Multimedia Android

Pivos XIOS DS Media Player Review

" Pivos is one of those companies that you might not have ever heard of unless your looking for the specific types of devices they offer. Being a major player in digital media playback and IPTV systems among many more emerging technologies we had heard of them a bit before looking at this unit. The unit we are looking at today is the Pivos XIOS DS which is a multi function media player based on the Android OS. "

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 Netgear Media Player Streaming HD

Netgear NeoTV MAX HD Streaming Player Review

" Today we look at Netgear’s next-generation of multimedia player, the $69.99 shipped NeoTV MAX. The NeoTV MAX is designed to play your personal media from external drives and DLNA media serves. Netgear wanted their users to be able access the ever-increasing online content that is available. From Youtube, Hulu, Vudu, Pandora, Spotify, and others, Netgear wants you to have every opportunity to grab your content without relying on your cable or satellite provider. "

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 Pivos Android Multimedia Media Player Linux

Pivos XIOS DS Media Player Review 

" The era of digital media has grown at faster rate then we might have guessed 20 years ago. The world of media streaming, sharing and Social Networking has taken a big step forward in the last few years and so has the technology behind it. Who remembers the days of sitting popping in a VHS to watch a movie on your 27″ Tube TV? Obviously those days have changed. "

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 Pivos HD Media Player

Pivos Aios HD Media Center Review

" As prices of large format LCDs have fallen over the past year, they are quickly becoming commonplace in the home. With this addition to the living room more and more people are gravitating to HTPCs than ever before. With this movement we have seen ZBOXs from ZOTAC and MiniPCs from a large amount of other companies hit the shelves flooding the market with a full array of options. At the top you have the option to build yourself a full blown gaming pc in the ITX form factor or you could go with something prebuilt like the Giada i53 we reviewed a few months back, hell even the two ZOTAC boxes we reviewed are well worth your money. "

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 Arctic HTPC

Arctic MC101-A10 Home Entertainment Centre Review

" Home entertainment continues to be a fast growing trend in the computer usage market. Smaller, faster and quieter are all characteristics that users demand from their HTPC, but not ones that naturally go hand-in-hand. Arctic aim to care for the needs of home entertainment enthusiasts with their slim and elegant MC101. On paper, the MC101 is a powerful home entertainment system. It packs an AMD Trinity A10 – 4600M, HD 7660G, 8GB of memory and 1TB hard drive into a chassis which is no thicker than a SD card. Built to operate silently with a low power usage, Arctic’s intelligent fan speed settings should allow media-lovers to enjoy their films and TV shows without disturbance. A DVB-T (HD)/ ATSC TV tuner and front panel infra-red receiver outline the system’s HTPC intentions. "

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 Gigabyte Wireless HD Video

Gigabyte SkyVision Wireless HD Video Sync Review

" Best known for their high end motherboards and graphics cards Gigabyte have won numerous awards on Hardware Heaven and are popular across the world. As we have seen in the past though they are not just a brand which focuses on those components, their keyboard and mouse ranges have also been impressive and most recently we saw the first Intel Inside Android smartphone which is built by Gigabyte. So what else do they do? Well today on our test bench we have the SkyVision WS100. With a name that doesn’t quite give away its purpose the SkyVision is a nifty little box of tricks that allows us to stream HD video from any HDMI ready device to another, wirelessly. Could this be the answer to many peoples cable jungles? "

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 WesternDigital Media Player

WesternDigital WD TV Live Media Player Review

" Since the WD TV Live Media Player was first introduced on October 2011, it has been marketed under the same product name despite design changes and hardware revisions. This article pertains to part number WDBHG70000NBK-01 with model number WDBHG70000NBK-HESN, using firmware version 1.09.10 (released 6/5/2012). Ours is a modern world where physical products have been replaced with digital clones, allowing personal entertainment to reach a new level of convenience. Music, photos, movies... they're all just a small part of the multimedia library that we save and collect. Most of us have been downloading files onto our computer for as long as we've had Internet access, and purchased discs promptly get converted into stored backup copies. "

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 ASUS O!Play LIVE HD Media Player

ASUS O!Play LIVE HD Media Player Review

" If you're like me, over the years you've collected a huge digital library full of music, pictures, and movies onto your computer. Occasionally, I might watch a video from off my laptop or listen to a song while working at the desktop, but high-definition movies and music are really best enjoyed on a home theater system with larger screen and powerful speakers. The ASUS O!Play LIVE HD Media Player makes this transition easy, accepting every modern media format over local storage and network connections. Watching broadcast television and DVD/BD movies have been replaced with streaming Internet content and downloaded multimedia files, especially for college aged viewers who own a smartphone or tablet device. In this article Benchmark Reviews tests the ASUS O!Play LIVE HD Media Player, and we evaluate how well it performs our tasks. The ASUS O!Play LIVE media player is designed to deliver large-scale entertainment in a small package, and indeed it does. Perfect for the college dorm or start-up entertainment center, expect O!Play LIVE to play back practically every modern digital media file format without frame loss or stutter. If you're not big on downloading files for playback, ASUS O!Play LIVE can also receive streaming Internet TV shows directly from several sources. Join me as I test the ASUS O!Play LIVE using several high bit-rate video files and streaming multimedia content. "

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 Patriot Android Media Player

Patriot PBO Alpine Android 2.2 Media Player Review

" Want your OS to catch on? Well, just dumb it down, it’s that simple. OK, maybe you need to throw in really easy Facebook access, as well. Think about it. How many years has it been that we've been hearing that it might be the year that Linux makes a bigger dent in the mainstream market, taking boxes away from Windows? I can’t even count at this point. What many people think was the biggest splash is probably Ubuntu, which actually did a nice job of grabbing the attention of many Windows users along the way. How did Canonical do it? Simple, they made Linux simple….and more Windows and Mac like. Which, of course, kind of upset the people who were using Linux in the first place, since they were using it because it wasn’t Windows or Mac like. Then again, the Mac OS isn’t much more than a specialized Linux distro (oh, sorry, Unix which is Linux' dad), anyway, so what would one expect? The whole thing gets very convoluted along the way, especially now that Windows 8 looks like it's mimicking Android and iOS…which are Linux and Unix kernels to begin with. "

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