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View Full Version : Engadget has Exclusive Look at Netgear’s DAVE700


James Fee
10-25-2005, 03:00 PM
<div class='os_post_top_link'><a href='http://homeentertainment.engadget.com/entry/1234000013063494/' target='_blank'>http://homeentertainment.engadget.com/entry/1234000013063494/</a><br /><br /></div><i>"This one won’t be officially announced for another two or three weeks, but we caught a sneak peek at the DAVE700, a new wireless 802.11g digital media adapter coming from Netgear (”DAVE” stands for “Digital Audio Visual Entertainer”). These things are a dime a dozen, but Netgear is loading the DAVE700 up with a few nice extras like a detachable external antenna to maximize reception, a USB 2.0 port for streaming music or video off of an iPod or any other USB mass storage device, and pretty decent codec support (MP3, AAC, OGG, and WMA for audio, DivX, DivX HD, Xvid, MPEG2, MPEG4, WMV, and Quicktime for video — oh, and it will even play a VOB file ripped to your PC)."</i><br /><br /><img src="http://www.digitalmediathoughts.com/images/dave700.jpg" /><br /><br />Now this is a nice looking media adapter. It pretty much has support for every format out there so if don't have everything saved in WMA and WMV you'll be able to stream to your TV. Right now there isn't support for HD but Engadget writes that we'll probably be seeing a "high end" version with DVI support.

rlobrecht
10-25-2005, 05:21 PM
The biggest draw (IMHO) for Windows Media Center is the extenders. This device totally changes that. It looks really nice, and I will hopefully be picking one up to try when they ship.

Jason Dunn
10-25-2005, 06:40 PM
I really like Netgear stuff - I've slowly moved over to al "all netgear" household with only netgear gigabit routers and their MIMO access point.