Media Made Easy: simple HDTV recording
by Kevin C. Tofel 
posted Sep 1st 2005 at 4:07PM
It kind of sounds like an "Easy Bake Oven", but Media Made Easy doesn't cook. Instead, the company builds and sells Media Center entertainment units. Their newest product looks fairly stylish; at least, stylish enough to sit in most family rooms. The HDTV system is built with your choice of 400GB or 800GB's of storage and includes a GeForce 6600 card for video. Digital program support is done by the Hauppauge PVR which allows recording of up to three programs at once, although only two of them could be HDTV programming. An Intel Pentium 4 provides the processing power, which is supplemented by 1GB of RAM.
The Media Made Easy HDTV solution starts at $1,947 for the 400GB flavor; double the storage brings you to $2,283, or roughly the price of 440 Easy Bake Ovens.
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
James Varghese @ Sep 2nd 2005 8:24AM
http://neasia.nikkeibp.com/neasia/002048
Don't know if you guys caught this yet.
Rob @ Sep 2nd 2005 10:21AM
Correct me if I'm wrong, but there isn't a Media Center out there that records HD via component inputs. They all use TV tuners and can't record cable. Until this changes, these units will always be sort of pointless to me.
Jeff Johnson @ Sep 2nd 2005 10:33AM
cool. DVR/Burn. I wonder how well this works with copy protection in the source... based on XP mediaCenter, my guess is that wmv-hd is in there too.
My pricepoint is $999 - cant wait for this to happen
Mike @ Sep 2nd 2005 2:32PM
Have to agree with Rob. Pointless AND useless!