James Fee
07-29-2004, 11:00 PM
<div class='os_post_top_link'><a href='http://www.mobilemag.com/content/100/337/C3058/' target='_blank'>http://www.mobilemag.com/content/100/337/C3058/</a><br /><br /></div>"<i>MediaWiz HD, a successor model of MediaWiz Plus released in February 2004, is equipped with the Sigma Designs EM8620L, the most advanced digital media processor available. The EM8620L enables video decoding of Windows Media Video 9 (WMV9), the popular new format for high definition video and supports IEEE802.11G (broadband wireless LAN standard). Corporate samples will begin shipping at the end of July and commercial shipments will begin at the end of August. For corporations, the product will be marketed through system integrators, dealers and distributors, and for consumers, through PC outlet stores and mass retailers. MediaWiz HD, a networked multimedia player, enables TV output of both video and photo content stored on a PC using its wireless network interface. MediaWiz HD operates as an extension of a home entertainment network, as well as a simple wireless set-top box for low-end video on demand (VOD) systems, replacing current wired systems. In addition, this product expands applications including the delivery of movies and video-on-demand, to hotels, as well as nationwide delivery of video images and/or promotional video for retail locations. MediaWiz HD is the third generation, adding high definition and other features to its predecessors, MediaWiz and MediaWiz Plus. </i>"<br /><br /> <img src="http://www.digitalmediathoughts.com/images/3058_super.jpg" /><br /><br />Getting your content off of a computer in another room and onto your TV is difficult enough without having to worry about how to get the wires strung. Wireless 802.11g players such as this one, appear to make setting up such a connection easy. Plus support for industry standard formats such as WMV9 allow DVD quality playback over your LAN.