Samsung reveals $200 MediaLive Media Center Extender

by Ben Drawbaugh, posted Jul 23rd 2008 at 11:53AM

Ever since we got our hands on Samsung's Media Center Extender at CES last year, we've wondered how the CE giant's rendition would stack up against the rest. Rather than build the Media Center Extender functionality into a TV the way HP has, or make a completely separate set-top-box like Linksys or D-Link, the $200 MediaLive Media Center Extender is designed to be a companion product for Samsung HDTVs. It can be mounted to the back of certain Samsung sets, and with the help of HDMI-CEC, the TV's remote will control the box even while it's out of sight -- of course, this begs the question of whether or not it will work with other TVs, but we'll just have to wait and try it ourselves when it launches next month. Oh, and in case you don't know already, Media Center Extenders are not just another media streamer, because it will allow you to have the full (almost) Vista Media Center experience -- including the ability to watch live HD from CableCARD tuner -- on any TV (connected wired or wirelessly) in your house.

Filed under: Media streamers, Other hardware, Samsung

Tags: extender, extenders, hd streaming, HDMI-CEC, HdStreaming, MCE, media center, media center extender, MediaCenter, MediaCenterExtender, MediaLive, microsoft, Samsung, stream, streaming

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