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Netgear Digital Entertainer Elite To Cost $400

We got an early peek at the Netgear Digital Entertainer Elite media streamer, complete with codec support and rear inputs/outputs. Now Wired has scored some more details, including the Elite’s $400 price. https://gizmodo.com/netgear-digital-entertainer-elite-htpc-in-a-set-top-bo-5100502 Yes, that’s a tad steep if you compare it to Apple TV, Roku, or Xbox 360, but not so bad if you…

Tech News Mark Wilson Dec 11

Netgear Digital Entertainer Elite: HTPC In a Set Top Box

Compliments of the FCC, we’re getting an early look at Netgear’s beefy yet practical response to the typical home theater PC. The Netgear Digital Entertainer Elite, expected to be officially announced at CES, is a set top box that may lack a tuner but happens to stream every format you could want at encoding rates…

Tech News Mark Wilson Dec 1

Netgear Launches GearHead Home Network Support Service, Has Geek Squad and Firedog in Their Crosshairs

Netgear is launching their new GearHead service, which provides support and assistance in setting up any of your home networking gear—whether it’s made by Netgear or not. The brand independent service is a service in the same vein as Best Buy’s Geek Squad, except it’s focused soley on home networking (and they probably won’t steal…

Tech News Adrian Covert Nov 18

Netgear’s 200 Mbps Powerline Adapters Are $170 For HD, $150 for AV

While we’ve already seen older iterations Netgear’s powerline-based networking products, it’s just today that the new Powerline HD Plus Ethernet Adapter Kit ($170) and Powerline AV Ethernet Adapter Kit ($150) have become widely available. Both systems transfer data at 200 Mbps over your home’s electrical wiring, but the big difference is that the Powerline HD…

Tech News Mark Wilson Nov 17

Netgear’s WGR614L $69 Open Source Router

Netgear’s new WGR614L is an open source 802.11g router, able to run lots of firmwares already built by the community. So do many other routers. The sell here is that they’ve beefed up the usual specs beyond what’s necessary for the usual packet direction. I suppose that most of these router firmwares are getting so…

Tech News Brian Lam Jun 30

Netgear HD/Video 5 GHz Wireless-N Kit Reviewed

PCMag got their hands on Netgear’s new 802.11n streaming rig, the The Netgear HD/Video 5 GHz Wireless-N Networking Kit. Essentially a wireless bridge with access point (no router included), the setup is intended to enable full HD streaming room to room (for ethernet-enabled media devices) or just a better wireless gaming experience (so you don’t…

Reviews Mark Wilson Feb 24

NetGear Expands Lineup of ReadyNAS Storage Devices

NetGear has recently announced 5 new products to their arsenal of network-attached storage devices (NAS) with four of these coming to the ReadyNAS NV+ lineup and one to the 1100 series. The upgrades offer storage capacities ranging from 1.5TB to 4TB along with an enhanced UI, support for Gigabit Ethernet networking, UPnP AV multimedia access,…

Tech News Sean Fallon Dec 26

Wi-LAN Sues Everyone and Their Mom (Really) Over Dubious Wi-Fi Patents

Another day, another Wi-Fi patent entanglement. Today the troll plaintiff suing practically the entire industry is Wi-LAN, whose two patents—”related to Wi-Fi and power consumption in DSL products”—are apparently violated by anyone making or selling anything from routers to notebooks. The suit, launched in the capital of patent infringement suits, the US District Court for…

Tech News Matt Buchanan Nov 1

Buffalo Banned from Selling 802.11a and 802.11g Gear in the US

Australia-based Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation has won a patent infringement suit against Buffalo in a US district court, enjoining sales on all 802.11a, g and n products made by Buffalo as of Oct. 1 (full list here). CSIRO is apparently suing the entire wireless LAN industry, so Buffalo has the quite the list…

Tech News Matt Buchanan Oct 30

Netgear’s Storage Central Turbo Is Finally Shipping

We heralded its coming at CES; now we can rejoice that Netgear’s faster and thus aptly named Storage Central Turbo is now hitting stores. It lists for $200, but you have to supply your own pair of 3.5″ drives. The combination of gigabit Ethernet networking and SATA disk support makes it speedier. Do you want…

Tech News Wilson Rothman Jul 9

Sneak Peek at Netgear’s Next Skype Phone

If you were at all impressed in Netgear’s first Skype phone—or maybe even more so if you weren’t—you should be intrigued by what Live Digitally (Netgear’s guest blogger) managed to capture from Netgear’s CEO on a visit of their Digital Lifestyle living room. It’s the second generation Netgear Skype phone, and for the most part…

Tech News Jason Chen May 26

Netgear EVA8000 Digital Entertainer HD

Since man discovered digital video compression, he’s been fashioning tools to view smut entertainment on the big screen. Early attempts of cutting out holes for CRT monitors were futile, as were the fruitless attempts at training monkeys to hold laptops at eye level. Luckily, companies like Netgear have better solutions. Their EVA8000 Digital Entertainer HD…

Tech News Mark Wilson May 2

Laptop Mag Reviews Netgear HD EVA8000: More Features Than Apple TV, Chokes on HD

Not an Apple fanboy? The folks at Laptop mag checked out Netgear’s Digital Entertainer HD, which does everything Apple TV can do (except stream iTunes-purchased media) plus a little more. So what did they like. Well, for starters, the EVA8000 supports tons of formats like MP4, XviD, Windows Media, and even purchased movies from CinemaNow…

Gadgets Louis Ramirez Apr 3

Netgear 1080p Digital Entertainer HD Official

Netgear’s EVA8000 that we saw in January has finally become official. Not only does the Digital Entertainer HD have 802.11g and can stream MP3, WMV, WMA, MPEG1/2/4, AVI, WMV, and XviD, it can play back video at up to 1080p over HDMI or component. https://gizmodo.com/netgears-1080p-streamer-caught-on-video-229621 Its other cool features are a PVR extender for PCs…

Gadgets Jason Chen Mar 14

Netgear SC101T Storage Central Turbo Goes Gigabit

Netgear’s Storage Central has been popular enough with the home and small business market for them to release an updated version. The SC101T now supports SATA drives instead of IDE, has disk mirroring, and finally supports Gigabit Ethernet. About gorram time, we say. https://gizmodo.com/netgears-networking-storage-solution-154459 The Storage Central Turbo should be available early 2007 wherever the…

Tech News Jason Chen Jan 23

Netgear’s 1080p Streamer Caught on Video

Ok, so the video is painfully blurry, but the folks at Tech Blog have posted up a clip demoing Netgear’s forthcoming Digital Entertainer HD. The box is capable of accessing and organizing all your stored media and streaming it to your HDTV with support for 1080p video. The interface is pretty bare as you can…

Tech News Louis Ramirez Jan 18

Netgear, BitTorrent Box Streams 1080P To Your TV

New developments coming out of the Netgear/BitTorrent partnership: breaking into the universal streaming media market, Netgear’s Digital Entertainer HD tries to make good by packing a cornucopia of features into its rather large box. Using draft-N, it’s able to stream video in 1080p, as well as most any other media content (MP3, WMA, AAC and…

Tech News Matt Buchanan Jan 8

First Pics of Skype Phones from Asus, Netgear and Topcom

We’ll have details to go with these images a bit later today. The Asus AiGuru is above, the rest are after the jump… This one is from Topcom, and it looks a lot like the IPEVO desk phone we saw on Friday. https://gizmodo.com/ipevo-skypes-out-a-trio-of-handsets-226557 Netgear’s SPH200D.

Gadgets Noah Robischon Jan 8

Netgear’s New Cordless Phone Swings Both Ways

Netgear today introduced a new cordless phone that combines plain-old telephone service and Skype calling in one handset. It’s not a new concept (Linksys is already doing it, for example), but the new Dual-Mode Cordless Phone with Skype SPH200D is a handsome little package. And it looks easy to use. The handset LCD shows you…

Tech News Sean Captain Jan 7

Netgear Skype Phone Hands-On Experience

Our own resident James Bond, Nick Denton, loves Skype phones. He loves calling up important people all day with his Skypeout, knowing that thanks to the 1 (000) 012-3456 caller ID, nobody knows it’s him. So what does he think of the Netgear SPH101 Skype phone? https://gizmodo.com/netgear-sph101-skype-wifi-phone-vs-belkin-skype-wifi-p-201682 • incoming and outgoing calls don’t register •…

Tech News Jason Chen Oct 11

Netgear Digital Entertainer Elite To Cost $400

Netgear Digital Entertainer Elite: HTPC In a Set Top Box

Netgear Launches GearHead Home Network Support Service, Has Geek Squad and Firedog in Their Crosshairs

Netgear’s 200 Mbps Powerline Adapters Are $170 For HD, $150 for AV

Netgear’s WGR614L $69 Open Source Router

Netgear HD/Video 5 GHz Wireless-N Kit Reviewed

NetGear Expands Lineup of ReadyNAS Storage Devices

Wi-LAN Sues Everyone and Their Mom (Really) Over Dubious Wi-Fi Patents

Buffalo Banned from Selling 802.11a and 802.11g Gear in the US

Netgear’s Storage Central Turbo Is Finally Shipping

Sneak Peek at Netgear’s Next Skype Phone

Netgear EVA8000 Digital Entertainer HD

Laptop Mag Reviews Netgear HD EVA8000: More Features Than Apple TV, Chokes on HD

Netgear 1080p Digital Entertainer HD Official

Netgear SC101T Storage Central Turbo Goes Gigabit

Netgear’s 1080p Streamer Caught on Video

Netgear, BitTorrent Box Streams 1080P To Your TV

First Pics of Skype Phones from Asus, Netgear and Topcom

Netgear’s New Cordless Phone Swings Both Ways

Netgear Skype Phone Hands-On Experience

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