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Stream your display all over the house with Black Box

If you have ever tried to hook up a whole-house entertainment system, it can easily become a real pain since you have to pull a whole lot of cables around the house. Black Box has come out with a new solution that allows for video and audio over Ethernet. You can take one display and watch it all over your home. This greatly simplifies installation of your networked home entertainment system since you would only have to run Ethernet cable.

Black Box has three different devices to handle this content delivery system. Two of the devices are transmitters. Of those two, one of them is a PCI-e card that you would install into your system. Another is a stand alone box. The remaining device is a receiver. You would just need to feed a transmitter your video and audio and be able to receive it wherever you have a Black Box receiver. This an interesting way to get some video on to an HDTV without directly hooking up a computer to it.

Gear4 delivers the Blackbox micro; a portable USB-powered speaker

Gear4 has introduced its BlackBox micro, a portable USB-powered speaker system which is touted as the company’s smallest speaker system to date. The Blackbox micro utilizes SFX technology in delivering high quality sound which you wouldn’t expect a speaker of such size would be capable of giving out. Thanks to its two drivers that work more »