MvixBox Brings your TV and Computer Closer Together
December 10, 2008 by Tech-Marky
Filed under Gear
Last month, MvixUSA unveiled what is quickly becoming one of the top gadgets on a gadget-lover’s Christmas gift list.
The MvixBox is a Linux server that can hold two SATA-II hard drives with 1.5TB worth of memory each. That is quite a lot of storage space for whatever you want to do as a media server.
The MvixBox is also an Apache server that supports HTTP and FTP, and allows the user to manage it via your browser and use it as a web server. There is even an Ethernet port that allows you to stream HD files to the user’s media network.
When it is connected to a normal PC, you will find it as a separate disk drive where you can drag and drop all your favorite media files. It would appear that devices like the MvixBox are really blurring the line between television and computers.
The MvixBox is available at a price of $299, and includes the Torrent Client Blog iTunes Music Server UPnP media server. Hard drives are not included with this, nor is the MX760HD, a device that links the MvixBox and streams video to a television.
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POstman on Sun, 14th Dec 2008 9:17 am
I have to assume that it works like Tivo wherein you could record any TV show that you have missed and then watch it anytime you want. Is there any chance that they would bring the price down to at least $199?
Garmin 1490T on Wed, 7th Oct 2009 10:24 pm
Looks pretty cool – but I’ll stick with Synology NAS. It looks to have the same capabilities for a fraction of the cost.