D-Link offers two new devices to help make content available on televisions from multiple sources:
The Boxee Box delivers a HDTV signal to a connected HDTV set and offers the wide range of Internet-based services inside one umbrella interface. It has social features to discover content from friends and can automatically recommend content from a user’s Twitter and Facebook account. The open nature of Boxee’s App platform allows plug-ins to be added to support new services. The Boxee Box, winner of CEA’s “Best of Innovations” in the Home Theater category, expects to ship sometime before summer (MSRP $200).
Pebble is a very simple to install media player that has extensive network capabilities. Pebble streams music, photos and video wherever they are stored – on external hard drives, in USB thumb drives, SD/XM/Flash memory cards, network attached storage (NAS) devices, PCs or the Internet. An optional dongle is available for wireless 802.11n connectivity. D-Link Pebble will be available in the first half of 2010 (MSRP $120).