Sharp's Network Media Player

[James Fee]

<div class='os_post_top_link'><a href='http://akiba.sorobangeeks.com/news_9027.html' target='_blank'>http://akiba.sorobangeeks.com/news_9027.html</a><br /><br /></div><i>"This Sharp CE-MR01 creates a link between the TV and the PC, and is Mpeg 1 &amp; 2, WAV, WMA and MP3 compatible. It also has WiFi A/B/G and a regular 100Mbps Ethernet connection. Sadly enough, it's not DivX compatible."</i><br /><br /> <img src="http://www.digitalmediathoughts.com/images/sharp_network_media_player.gif" /> <br /><br />Nice and small unlike most media players. I don't read Japanese so I can't tell if WMA support is extended to DRM WMA files but if it does, Sharp could have a winner on their hands.

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Not a bad unit, considering the biggest use for this would be streaming the mpegs of TV shows recorded from Sage or any other PVR.

But the lack of DivX and Xvid is a shame. Ogg too.