Niveus shares official details on Media Center Extender - EDGE

Technically, Niveus was the first of the major partners to spill the proverbial beans on its Extender for Windows Media Center, and while it was sitting around for all to see at CEDIA, details were admittedly slim. Now, however, the firm has come clean and doled out the specs for its Media Center Extender - EDGE, following the moves made by Linksys and D-Link earlier. The EDGE boasts a "Glacier Passive Cooling for near silent operation," RS-232 / IP / IR for third-party control support, a trio of USB 2.0 ports, an Ethernet jack, HDMI / component outputs and two-channel analog / digital optical audio outs. Unfortunately, Niveus' box doesn't include integrated WiFi, so its wired or nothin' here, and while we'd love to know how much this thing will actually cost, we do know it'll land sometime in November. Click on for a few more looks.

[(Unverified) Posted Sep 27th 2007 2:56PM]

I can garauntee this will be one of the most expensive extenders on the market. I know the 360 isn't the speediest extender in the world but a little patience never hurt anyone plus it will save some bucks. It's just when you add the main computer plus the cable card add-on and now this! Ouch that's some big bucks. But it sure does look cool.

[(Unverified) Posted Sep 29th 2007 11:46PM]

The microsoft guy at Digital Life told me flat out, several time, "this is an xbox, literally, an xbox", and confirmed that there will be no divx/xvid support with this device.

Seeing as how their setup was a little hard to demo, I had to take his word for it.

Marshall
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