Netgear recently introduced the NeoTV NTV200, a compact, low power, highly integrated, streaming media player that’s quite similar to Roku’s latest devices. Netgear clearly intends the NTV200 to capture some market share from the highly-popular Apple TV and Roku 2 streaming media players. Will it succeed?
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This screenshot tour was created to accompany our detailed review of Netgear’s NeoTV NTV200 streaming media player device, a direct competitor with the popular Roku 2 series products. The tour comprises about 100 screenshots showcasing the NTV200’s menu system, settings, and broad range of content channels available for watching movies and TV shows, listening to music and internet radio, and more.
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Boxee is battling with the U.S. cable industry over the right to keep “basic cable” transmissions unencrypted, so that third-party devices like the Boxee Box can be used in lieu of cable provider-supplied TV set-top-boxes (STBs). Boxee and other opponents of basic cable encryption assert that provider-supplied STBs generally are huge energy wasters, in contrast to more advanced gadgets like the Boxee Box.
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Sonos, a leading innovator of Internet radio and wireless music-streaming devices, has created a “History of Radio Infographic” that traces 120 years of evolution from the first radio frequencies observed by Tesla in 1892 to today’s Internet radio services.
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This in-depth review and screenshot tour takes a close look at Roku’s latest streaming media players. Although the Roku 2 series players are smaller and cost less than their predecessors, they’re jam-packed with multimedia apps, offer multiple A/V outputs along with microSD and USB expansion, and are significantly less power-thirsty.
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