G.hn Gains Momentum with Marvell Silicon
We have covered the powerline networking battle between HomePlug and HomeGrid in a lot of earlier pieces. With demonstration of working silicon at CES 2011, G.hn finally emerged from...
11 by on 9/27/2011QNAP TS-659 Pro II Review
The SMB (Small to Medium Businesses) and Corporate NAS market is a highly competitive one. Over the last one year, we have been expanding our coverage of this market...
69 by on 9/19/2011StarTech.com Portable SATA Duplicator & USB / eSATA Dock Review
Once in a while, we encounter a gadget performing a niche, yet handy function. A month or so back, we received a pitch for the portable SATA duplicator (with...
36 by on 9/6/2011ASRock CoreHT 252B Review
Approximately a year back, we reviewed the ASRock Core 100 HTPC which was a pioneer of sorts in the small form factor (SFF) HTPC space. Till that point, the...
56 by on 9/2/2011Compro IP 70 Network Camera Review
Surveillance cameras are increasingly moving away from the analog to the digital domain. Advances in image and video processing silicon, emergence of efficient video compression standards and abundance of...
16 by on 7/28/2011Roku 2 Brings Casual Gaming to TVs
Roku, founded in 2002, is one of the pioneers in the media streamer market. OTT (over-the-top) content from premium service providers like Netflix and Hulu has become more popular...
16 by on 7/19/2011LG N2A2 NAS Review
The consumer Network Attached Storage (NAS) market has seen tremendous growth over the past few years. As connected homes become more ubiquitous, the need for centralised storage has become...
24 by on 7/18/2011AMD A8-3850 : An HTPC Perspective
Today is all about Lynx, the desktop version of the Llano platform from AMD. Anand is reviewing the A8-3850 from a generic PC perspective, and Ian is covering its...
107 by on 6/30/2011Sigma Designs Skini Platform: Home Convergence using Hybrid STBs
While smartphones are bringing about the personal convergence revolution, there is still a battle going on to determine the convergence product at the residential level. Sigma Designs, through various...
9 by on 6/20/2011Discrete HTPC GPU Shootout
The popularity of Intel's HD Graphics amongst HTPC enthusiasts and the success of the AMD APUs seem to indicate that the days of the discrete HTPC GPU are numbered...
70 by on 6/12/2011Updates on the Netgear NTV 550
As followers of the media streamer reviews on AnandTech already know, I have been in possession of a review unit of the Netgear NTV 550 since CES. It was...
22 by on 5/7/2011Nixeus Fusion XS Brings Marvell into the DMA Market
The DMA (Digital Media Adapter) aka media streamer market has been dominated by Sigma Designs, Realtek and of late, the Intel CE 4xxx series. The low end market is...
15 by on 3/11/2011TViX Slim S1 : Bidding Adieu to the Realtek RTD1283
In the competitive media streamer market, we have been covering products with a huge US presence. Today, we will look at an offering from DViCO in the TViX series...
10 by on 3/8/2011Nixeus Fusion HD Review
The media streamer market is a highly competitive one, where you have the big players like Western Digital and Netgear, and the really small ones like Micca. None of...
32 by on 3/4/2011Synology DS211+ SMB NAS Review
The SMB (Small to Medium Businesses) NAS market is a highly competitive one. A lot of things have changed since the last time we covered this market in a...
49 by on 2/28/2011Dell Zino HD 410 HTPC Review
Dell is one of the leading vendors in the PC market to have a play in the SFF HTPC (small form factor home theater PC) space. In 2009, they...
69 by on 2/19/2011A.C.Ryan PlayOn!HD2 - First Realtek 1185 Media Streamer in the Wild!
AnandTech started covering the media streamer market last year. Thanks to the support of readers like you, the response has been very encouraging. Over the last few months, manufacturers...
31 by on 2/14/2011G.hn Silicon Emerges from Vaporware Territory
Powerline networking products are quite popular in the European and Asian markets compared to the US. The Western Digital Livewire product was the first powerline product reviewed by AnandTech...
19 by on 2/2/2011AMD G-Series Brings APUs to the x86 Embedded Market
The embedded market is dominated by SoCs based on RISC processors such as ARM and MIPS. The low power consumption of these SoCs make them attractive. Other than ARM...
77 by on 1/19/2011A.C.Ryan Enters US Market with Innovative Media Players
At CES 2011, A.C.Ryan, a Dutch company with only a small reseller presence in the US, invited us over to their private suite to talk about their plans for...
31 by on 1/18/2011