Intel unwraps ideas for home media networks

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50 mln US households to have home media
networks by year-end 2005

50 mln US households to have home media
networks by year-end 2005 03/25/2005 04:56 PM
ZDNet Mar 25 2005 9:43PM GMT

Intel chips in on home networks

Intel chips in on home networks 06/21/2004 02:37 AM
Variety Jun 21 2004 7:14AM GMT

Intel Hopes to Transform Home Media

Intel Hopes to Transform Home Media 06/18/2004 03:23 AM
Los Angeles Times Jun 18 2004 7:15AM GMT

Intel to Invest $200 Million in Home
Media Networking

Intel to Invest $200 Million in Home
Media Networking 01/07/2004 05:39 PM
Intel said on Tuesday that it planned to invest $200 million in start-up companies that are creating digital home entertainment technology.

Work at home ideas and opportunities

Work at home ideas and opportunities 07/05/2004 02:39 PM
WebDevInfo Jul 5 2004 6:32PM GMT

Motorola Announces Home Media
Architecture, Extending Digital Video
Recording Capabilities Throughout the
Home

Motorola Announces Home Media
Architecture, Extending Digital Video
Recording Capabilities Throughout the
Home 05/04/2004 09:06 PM
Hidden Wires May 5 2004 0:12AM GMT

Verizon SuperPages.com, Super Handyman
Al Carrell, Share Home Improvement Tips
and Do-It-Yourself Plumbing Repair Ideas

Verizon SuperPages.com, Super Handyman
Al Carrell, Share Home Improvement Tips
and Do-It-Yourself Plumbing Repair Ideas 03/22/2005 04:55 PM
Online Shopping Site to Feature Advice from Nationally Known Expert on Home Repair, Water Leak Detection and Sewer Drain Cleaning [PRWEB Mar 21, 2005]

Florida to Tax Home Networks

Florida to Tax Home Networks 06/24/2004 04:46 AM
Home and small businesses with two or more networked computers may be subject to a communications tax in Florida. No one seems to want the tax, but it's moving along anyway. By Michelle Delio.

Stand-Alone Media Servers and Digital
Media AdaptersJust a Niche in Future
Digital Home

Stand-Alone Media Servers and Digital
Media AdaptersJust a Niche in Future
Digital Home 03/14/2005 04:45 PM
Early digital home media solutions fail to find an early market, but will be reborn in convergence platforms based on well-diffused devices. [PRWEB Mar 1, 2005]

TiVo Breaks Into Home Networks

TiVo Breaks Into Home Networks 06/09/2004 03:45 PM
Wired News Jun 9 2004 8:08PM GMT

Navigating Digital Home Networks

Navigating Digital Home Networks 02/18/2004 09:24 PM
Home PC's increasingly link TV sets, game consoles, music and photos. Now the question is how to retrieve what you want, when you want it, from such deep digital wells.

Florida Still Considering Taxing Home
Networks

Florida Still Considering Taxing Home
Networks 06/24/2004 01:01 PM
Last summer we wrote about a bizarre plan in Florida to tax computer networks that made absolutely no sense under any rationale other than "the state government needs more cash." Some taxes you can defend on the idea that they are paying for something that everyone gets to use. The Florida law, is basically a tax on companies being more efficient for setting up their own networks. The law is written so broadly that it could even apply to home wireless networks, punishing anyone who dared to use WiFi in their homes. Everyone who looks at the law realizes that it's terribly written and would be very damaging if they decided to apply it to computer networks. However the state is desperate for cash and thus politic ians are pushing to officially start taxing networks. Of course, this is short-term narrow-minded thinking. By making local individuals and companies less efficient, they'll do damage to the overall state economy, bringing in even fewer taxes.

Rich Media Multicast on GPRS Networks

Rich Media Multicast on GPRS Networks 05/21/2004 12:48 PM
Telecoms.com May 21 2004 4:29PM GMT

A look at Wardriving and the legalities
and statistics of WiFi Home Networks

A look at Wardriving and the legalities
and statistics of WiFi Home Networks 09/13/2004 03:33 AM

I have my WiFi device sitting in a second floor office with MAC filtering and WEP enabled at the highest encryption level. I live in a residential area and from my second floor vantage point their are 11 active WiFi connections. Considering how far WiFi signal can travel everyone around on this block must have a WiFi device. What is amazing is that 9 of those are wide open. How can people be so ignorant. The statistics are amazing nation wide. Read on. [ZDNet]

The elusive wireless home gets closer,
courtesy of Wi-Fi networks

The elusive wireless home gets closer,
courtesy of Wi-Fi networks 09/18/2004 08:34 PM
US News Sep 18 2004 11:21PM GMT

Wireless Networks Unite Home Office and
Hearth

Wireless Networks Unite Home Office and
Hearth 01/16/2004 11:33 AM
A wireless network can add flexibility to working at home and sometimes ease the integration of work and family life.

Entertainment-Centric Home PCs and
Networks to Reach $12 Billion in Sales

Entertainment-Centric Home PCs and
Networks to Reach $12 Billion in Sales 05/11/2004 01:22 PM
Wi-Fi Technology Forum May 11 2004 4:48PM GMT

Broadband ISPs find increasing success
with home networks

Broadband ISPs find increasing success
with home networks 08/21/2004 01:25 AM
Wi-Fi Technology Forum Aug 21 2004 5:15AM GMT

Despite Rapid Uptake of Wireless Home
Networks, Ethernet is Here to Stay

Despite Rapid Uptake of Wireless Home
Networks, Ethernet is Here to Stay 03/14/2005 05:59 PM
According to New Research from The Diffusion Group,Reports of the Demise of Ethernet are Premature and Ill-Informed [PRWEB Mar 14, 2005]

Om Malik on Broadband: Can Comcast snoop
into you home networks using LinkSys
gateway?

Om Malik on Broadband: Can Comcast snoop
into you home networks using LinkSys
gateway? 05/08/2004 03:46 AM
Om Malik on Broadband: Can Comcast snoop into you home networks using LinkSys gateway? .. backdoored corn-holed their subscribers’ 802.11g/Modems

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Consumer Demand for Home Networks
Continues to Decline, Necessitates
Strategic Shift Among Vendors

Consumer Demand for Home Networks
Continues to Decline, Necessitates
Strategic Shift Among Vendors 03/29/2005 01:54 PM
Research from The Diffusion Group finds that declining "manifest" demand for home networks will require vendors to adopt new strategies that focus on "push" distribution channels. [PRWEB Mar 29, 2005]

Intel preps chip to link 3G, Wi-Fi
networks

Intel preps chip to link 3G, Wi-Fi
networks 08/03/2004 05:47 AM
Roaming from cells to hotspots

Media Center not yet a home run

Media Center not yet a home run 01/06/2005 07:58 PM
Techzonez Jan 6 2005 10:59PM GMT

Intel Chip Sets to Roam Wi-Fi and
Cellular Networks

Intel Chip Sets to Roam Wi-Fi and
Cellular Networks 07/31/2004 08:40 AM
eWeek Jul 31 2004 1:10PM GMT

Report: Home Media Servers

Report: Home Media Servers 12/31/2004 12:37 PM
A new report discusses home media server options, plus TiVo hacking.

Using a Mac Mini as a home media center

Using a Mac Mini as a home media center 03/31/2005 12:26 AM

Last week I finally received the Mac Mini I ordered in January for use as a home media center. Here's an overview of my setup and its performance.

Media chip may take PC out of home
entertainment

Media chip may take PC out of home
entertainment 01/06/2005 02:43 PM
Electric New Paper Jan 6 2005 6:33PM GMT

Intel Wireless Chip Sets to Roam Wi-Fi
and Cellular Networks

Intel Wireless Chip Sets to Roam Wi-Fi
and Cellular Networks 07/30/2004 10:21 PM
The company will announce its Wi-Fi-to-cellular roaming strategy in the fall as roadmaps show a "wireless WAN" chip due in 2005.

Notes and Tips: Home media server

Notes and Tips: Home media server 12/27/2004 03:15 AM
Flush with Christmas gifts, a reader is looking for a system that can support Mac OS X and be a home media server.

802.11n beats UWB for home media,
analyst predicts.

802.11n beats UWB for home media,
analyst predicts. 06/29/2004 08:26 PM
EE Times: 802.11n beats UWB for home media, analyst predicts. Vaporware vs. vaporware.

Netgear Unveils Home Media Player

Netgear Unveils Home Media Player 12/24/2004 12:24 PM
Computer network hardware manufacturer Netgear has joined the race to dominate the living room, unveiling a new product that will let users access pictures, music and video from anywhere in their wireless home network. The Netgear Wireless Digital Media Player plays back content through the television or home stereo.

HAI Home Control for Windows Media
Center

HAI Home Control for Windows Media
Center 08/27/2004 01:47 PM

eHomeUpgrade reports...

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Yup, you read it right… Home Automation, Inc. (HAI) the makers of one of the best home automation control systems, the OmniPro II, will be releasing HAI Home Control For Windows Media Center [PDF file] in September. This package can be installed on any Windows Media Center Edition PC and controlled via the MCE remote. No pricing is available yet, but it will be less than the Weblink II. Feature Overview: HAI OmniPro home control via Windows Media Center Edition: lighting control, security, temperature control, macros, event log, and more.

[eHomeUpgrade]

Needless to say - this is a huge win for Microsoft. This is where the power of money and monoply comes into play.

On future developments in home media
centres...

On future developments in home media
centres... 06/05/2005 10:48 PM

A couple of days ago I was e-mail interviewed by a guy writing an article on future developments in televisions and home media centres who was interested in the piece I wrote on Social Software for Set-Top Boxes. For what it's worth - here are my answers in full, slightly edited for clarity:

In your presentation you outlined some interesting ideas (buddy lists, watch with friends etc.) - Is anyone going down this route? Online gaming is leading this kind of hybridised social / entertainment stuff - things like Xbox Live already make it possible for you to talk and chat and play alongside people from all over the world - and to manage those relationships. Simultaneously, each of these boxes is coming closer and closer to the idea of a home entertainment hub, so I wouldn't be surprised if the edges between the various activities you could do with them started to blur. Also, around the same time that I put up my stuff on Social Software for Set-Top Boxes, the PARC people also started talking about similar stuff. Obviously, a huge amount of the technology that we take for granted today was developed at PARC, so that bodes quite well for the future.

Is TV and PC convergence a dead idea? I think the idea of a screen in the corner of your room that you watch TV on and then completely change modes so that you can do your taxes is pretty much inevitably going to have limited appeal. There are machines that can do this kind of stuff already of course, but they're really targeted towards people with very limited space - students and the like. I think the future looks much more interesting than that - with some of the functionality that has been associated with PCs starting to appear in entertainment appliances all around the home. The technology behind all the devices is probably going to be pretty much the same and slightly further off I think we can expect that they'll all be talking to each other behind the scenes. The various devices in your home will be acting together to give you relatively unified access to your data and media and to the network - but each device will provide its own way of mediating that data - it's own tailored interface.

What about the Apple media hub? Yeah, I don't know quite what Apple are doing to be honest. With computer technology gradually moving out of the desktop PC and into the rest of the home, you'd think they'd be right at the forefront. That kind of thing - making complex concepts and devices comprehensible - is exactly what they're great at. Sony and Microsoft are clearly making huge inroads with their gaming machines to the extent that they already have low-powered media hubs attached to millions of televisions worldwide - I really would have thought that Apple would similarly be looking to get into that space by leveraging their advantage in the digital audio space. But while there are rumours that the Mac Mini is destined to be a foundation for that kind of thing, there's very little actual evidence of it so far.

Is D-TV more likely to see a continuation of selected internet or internet-like functions rather than fully-fledged net access? Fundamentally the interface just isn't there for web-browsers on the TV to really take off enormously. I don't doubt that people will continue to develop them, and I don't doubt that there will be some people who use them, but having to have an extra wireless keyboard or input device and having to control the screen from the other side of a room makes the whole enterprise less than optimal. In the longer term, I wouldn't be surprised if it wasn't pretty easy to install network-enabled apps on your TV that allowed you to do things like access your Flickr photostream or the iTunes music store, but I would think you'll probably do that kind of stuff via a different lean-forward interface somewhere else in your home.

How do the next generation of games consoles fit in to the mix? I think they're fundamental - unlike with set-top boxes, it's not a fully commoditised market, there's enormous scope for technological development and each of the major players is throwing enormous amounts of money into the area - often expecting years of loss-leading before profit. Of course they're looking to the future. Of course they're competing to own this new critical space under the TV and at the heart of the connected home. That's not to say that the gaming element is just a Trojan horse - it's clearly not - but I think it's also fairly clear that it's not the end of the road. The set-top box space is a really powerful and important area - for a start it can potentially mediate all your media consumption. Whoever controls that has a lot of power. And the market for operating systems is huge - how many more people in the world have televisions than computers right now? Think how much money you could make by having your media centre installed on every new TV sold. And boxes like the X-box are in the perfect space to position for that final leap...

Apple Releasing Home Media Center: iHome

Apple Releasing Home Media Center: iHome 04/01/2005 05:25 PM

Notes and Tips: TiVo for home media
server

Notes and Tips: TiVo for home media
server 12/28/2004 03:33 AM
David Roach notes the many sides of TiVo in a home media network.

Mac Mini spurs interest in home media
systems

Mac Mini spurs interest in home media
systems 02/01/2005 09:57 PM
Since the Mac Mini has been released, a whole flock of sites dedicated to turning it into a home media center have appeared. There are at least two open source home media projects: Mac Media Center...

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UStec Mac mini Home Media Server
Solution

UStec Mac mini Home Media Server
Solution 04/13/2005 11:07 AM

UStec has released their take on a Mac mini-based home media server solution by offering their proprietary ethernet and wiring system with a custom, mini-friendly holster. The UStec systems effectively establish a wired infrastructure throughout your house for sharing media and phone connections and include a UStec router along with commercial grade wiring and wallplates. While pricing isn't available, it's painfully obvious that you must purchase the UStec tecCenter through a certified dealer—the system is designed with the intent of being built into new homes rather than existing ones anyway, so this may not be a bad thing altogether.

Produ ct Page [UStec via eHomeUpgra de

HP to Sell Linux-Based Home Media Hub
(PC World)

HP to Sell Linux-Based Home Media Hub
(PC World) 01/05/2005 10:37 PM
PC World - Company says the combo device will be the industry's first high-definition hub.

HAI Home Automation Control for Windows
Media Center

HAI Home Automation Control for Windows
Media Center 08/23/2004 10:51 AM

I've not used HAI's home automation products, so I can't vouch for eHomeUpgrade's claim they are "the best," but if you've already invested in their products and a Windows Media Center PC, you might be interested to know that HAI has announced a new bit of plug-in software for Media Center 2005 that will allow you to take control of your lighting, security, temperature, and what not via the regular interface or MCE remote. It's not free, though, which is sort of a bummer, especially since it is clearly something that is only useful for HAI users, and no price has yet been announced.

Read - HAI Home Control for Windows Media Center [eHomeUpgrade]

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