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MediaSmart Connect: will display all your media on an HDTV

Made to synchronise with your Windows Media Heart, the HP MediaSmart Receiver was unveiled at last year's CES to quite a flake of fanfare. And then it never emerged.

Now it's hither, renamed and rebranded equally HP MediaSmart Connect. The automobile, according to HP, volition find and display all your digital videos, music and photos, whether they are stored on a notebook across the room or a desktop in a home function, in a single list on any HDTV.

The MediaSmart Connect box takes advantage of Extender for Windows Media Centre, which means, much like Apple TV for Mac users, you lot can also picket online content on your HDTV – as long every bit your PC has a Idiot box tuner that is – on what'southward called Internet Television receiver Beta.

Non an HDD

Those expecting MediaSmart Connect to come with a difficult-disk drive will be disappointed the big, black box merely houses the ability to accept your media from your PC and play it on your flat-screen TV.

What you lot do go on the box is an Ethernet port, HDMI / component ports and support for all the usual media files: MPEG2/four, DivX, XviD, WMV, MP3, WMA, AAC, JPEG, to name simply a few.

Speaking near the HP MediaSmart Connect, Ron Pessner, full general manager, Connected Goggle box sectionalization, Microsoft, said: "Continued CE products like these are delivering engaging consumer experiences for today's digital lifestyle.

"The new MediaSmart Connect will enable people to extend their amusement to their HDTV from a Windows Vista Dwelling Premium or Windows Vista Ultimate-based PC – delivering innovation as a upshot of our relationship with HP."

There'due south no UK release date equally of withal, merely yous can pre-order the HP MediaSmart Connect for $349 (£175) from various internet outlets at present.

Marc Chacksfield is the Editor In Chief, Shortlist.com at DC Thomson. He started out life as a picture author for numerous (now defunct) magazines and soon constitute himself online - editing a gaggle of gadget sites, including TechRadar, Digital Camera World and Tom's Guide United kingdom of great britain and northern ireland. At Shortlist you'll detect him generally writing about movies and tech, so no change there so.