Vista Media Extenders

info@santry.com — Wed, 10 Jan 2007 05:00:00 GMT

Unfortunately our old Media Center Extenders for XP will no longer work once our Media Center PC is upgraded to Vista. There are some options though. The Xbox 360 supports both Media Center XP and Media Center Vista. In October Linksys announced that they will be producing a new Vista Extender called the DP1600 which includes Scart, composite, S-Video, component, HDMI, optical and SPIDF connections, as well as an Ethernet and 802.11 b/g wireless.

Now HP has entered in the Vista Extender market (makes sense since Linksys and HP made the XP Extenders) with thier HP MediaSmart HDTVs (pictured). The HP MediaSmart HDTVs have Extender capabilities built into the TV. There are 42" and 47" LCD versions of the TV supporting up to 1080p. As XP Media Center Extender owners are aware of, both the Linksys and HP Extenders support DivX and other video formats something the previous versions didn't support. In addition, it has media capabilities even if you don't have a Media Center PC.