The Diamond Multimedia AMP1000 Android Media Player is a set-top-box that you can hook up to a TV to run Android apps on a big screen. It comes with a wireless remote control that you can use like a mouse and a keyboard. It can connect to the internet over Ethernet and WiFi connections, and […]
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Brief review: AMP1000 Android Media Player – Video
The Diamond Multimedia AMP1000 is an Android Media Player. It’s about the size and shape of a USB DVD drive, but it has the guts of an Android smartphone or tablet. You can hook it up to your TV and use the wireless remote control to run Android apps on a big screen. That includes […]
Installing, running Android apps on the Google Nexus Q
The Google Nexus Q is a $299 spherical device that’s designed to stream music, movies, and other content to your TV from the Google Play Store. Out of the box, that’s pretty much all it does right now: Google didn’t even include a user interface. To launch a video or control media playback, you need […]
Miro 5 cross-platform media player adds music organization tools
Miro is a cross-platform media player for Windows, Mac, and Linux computers. It started out its life as Democracy Player, an app aimed at helping users organize and view video podcasts. But over the past few years it’s grown into a pretty capable audio and video player with support for local and online media playback. […]
Muzee Cloudia: Android powered internet media device
The Muzee Cloudia is a portable media device with a 7 inch 800 x 480 pixel LCD display. It runs Google Android and connects to the internet over a WiFi or Ethernet connection to deliver photos, music, videos, news, or other content. But the Muzee Cloudia isn’t an Android tablet in the traditional sense, because […]
XBMC media center running on ARM and Intel-based MeeGo Linux devices
The popular XBMC media player application may have started its life as Xbox Media Center, running on the original Xbox game console with an Intel Pentium II chip. But today XBMC can run on a wide range of systems, with builds to run as an app on Windows, Mac, or Linux computers or on the […]
Samsung Galaxy Player up for pre-order in the UK
There’s still no word on a US launch date, but it looks like Samsung is set to release the Galaxy Player handheld device with Google Android in the UK later this week. Amazon UK and Play.com are both taking pre-orders for the little guy with an estimated release date of January 7th. The Galaxy Player […]
Acer RevoView media player to ship this month… in Germany
You could make the case that Acer’s line of Aspire Revo nettops are already aimed at the multimedia market. They’re about the same size and shape as a Nintendo Wii and are clearly designed to look good next to a TV. These little computers tend to have low power Atom processors but high performance NVIDIA […]
Zune HD 4.5 firmware now available
Microsoft has rolled out the latest version of its Zune HD firmware. That means you can updated your mobile media player to add support for Smart DJ playlists, additional video codecs including Xvid, and the ability to browser the Zune Marketplace music store while your Zune HD is docked and connected to an external display. […]
Asus launches O!Play HD2 media player with USB 3.0
Asus has launched an updated version of its O!Play media streaming device. You can hook the new O!Play HD2 up to your TV and plug in a USB flash drive, hard drive, or flash card to pump audio, video, or pictures out to your big screen. You can also connect to shared network drives over […]