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First v2 Media Center Extender (Pika) Details!

I’ve been talking about them forever, and here they are!

When: Holiday Season 2007

Who: Linksys, D-Link, Niveus Media

What: v2 Extenders (Pika), variety of form factors (Standalone, DVD players, Televisions) and price points, support for Wireless N, Quiet, DivX and Xvid (features can vary by manufacturer)

Note: It wasn't in the press release, but the Sigma Designs reference board also support H.264 as I have said in the past. 

Published Wed, Sep 5 2007 23:09 by chrisl
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Comments

# re: First v2 Media Center Extender (Pika) Details!

Is anyone else concerned at which the speed of the extenders run?  Some day I would like to see my whole house run off extenders but I really enjoy the speed of the actual server machine.  Am I the only one who feels this way?

Thursday, September 06, 2007 7:29 AM by DanITman

# re: First v2 Media Center Extender (Pika) Details!

Two things:

1) I agree with Dan.  The extender interface is not nearly as "zippy" as the MCE machine.  I wish they could fix this.

2) These need to be cheap to compete with the X360.  (I'm sure Niveus will be >$500, but D-Link and Linksys could be cheap?)

Thursday, September 06, 2007 10:24 AM by Aaron

# re: First v2 Media Center Extender (Pika) Details!

I was at the Lifeware show home where they had two beta v2 Extenders by I think D-Link.  I think most people are wondering about boot up time compared to a Xbox 360 and I would have to say that it is slightly faster but still annoyingly slow.  The interface seemed to have a lower resolution than a Xbox 360.  I did not look at what cables were used to connect the Extender.  Now that I think of it, I should have taken some pictures.

Tuesday, September 11, 2007 9:29 AM by DC

# re: First v2 Media Center Extender (Pika) Details!

Finally... have been waiting for these a while.

Allready bought two Xbox 360 which have NEVER been used to play games....

I love extenders :-)

Sunday, September 16, 2007 12:29 PM by Simon