Register

I agree with the Privacy Policy

USA Today

Digital media players reaching out, sending content to your TV

May 18, 2010

USA Today Hard-drive companies are on a new mission to do more than just back up your data. Now they want to bring you and your digital content into the living room.

To expand beyond the basic drive, top manufacturers Seagate, Western Digital and Iomega have quietly introduced a new product category: the digital media player. The device is a vehicle for moving digital content from the computer to the living room; some of them don't even have a storage feature.

Meanwhile, the basic hard-drive business has "bounced back dramatically," said Kurt Scherf, an analyst at Parks & Associates.

From the article, "Digital media players reaching out, sending content to your TV" by Jefferson Graham

Previously In The News

Cable eyes profits from pay-for-play

Cable operators at their annual convention here this week have games on their minds — and not just the corporate kind. Recent industry efforts to standardize digital transmissions and speed processi...

Has your TV room gone upscale yet

Only a fraction — perhaps less than 1% — of the nation's home theaters are marquee presentations such as the Cleage family's. Still, about one-third of home-theater owners spent more than $1,500 for...

Cocooning is back with a vengeance

The big-screen experience comes home. The average consumer will spend 78 hours watching movies at home this year vs. 13 at theaters, according to forecasters Veronis Suhler Stevenson. And people are...

Fight over ultrawideband standards turns into morass"

UWB remains lost in a black hole known as standard-setting, the process by which the industry agrees on a common standard so devices from different makers work with each other. For nearly a year, th...

‹
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
›