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.

Connected devices are everywhere. Compositor wants to put together a solution for the tech savvy so you can have a connected living room using their Meeseries of devices.

Gadgetell saw their devices at CES and some of us were thoroughly unimpressed. The MeeBox and MeeCeiver system allows you to watch your digital content on your television. If I remember right, the MeeCeiver attaches to your television while the MeeBox sends your images, audio, and video to the MeeCeiver. Checking Compositor’s website, there really is no information to tell you what exactly the devices do.

Twonky is a media management software that, at first glance, looks much like any other media player. But upon further inspection and reading, this software is not like other media players at all.

Sit down in front of my computer and you will find upwards of five Internet windows each with at least eight tabs, all open to different sites. Pages just don’t load fast enough for me. The moment it takes a page to load, I feel like I need to be doing something else or it is time wasted.

I am going be in trouble when they make things even faster than the cable Internet I have now. It is in the works to increase Ethernet speed from 10 Gigabit Ethernet (“GbE”) to 40GbE or 100GbE (or 80 GbE,120 or even 160 GbE as the actual number is undetermined at present). From the way it looks, I have about two years to figure out what to do about that and come off my multi-window addiction.

How does this effect you? Keep reading to find out.

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