ZvBox

I just saw this on Amazon.com. Thought it might interest some.

Broadcast Any Internet or Computer Content to All Your HDTVs

ZvBox is the first device that allows you to watch anything you can get online or on your computer from all your HDTVs. Simply connect the monitor output of your computer to ZvBox, then connect ZvBox to your home’s cable TV wiring. ZvBox takes the high resolution output of your computer, including Dolby Digital 5.1 sound, and creates a new HD channel that you can tune in alongside your other TV channels from any HDTV in the home. ZvRemote, combined with a ZvReceiver that is attached to your computer, provides full control of your computer from anywhere in the house, including multimedia and cursor control. The optional ZvKeyboard, available August 2008, makes it even easier to compose email, surf the web, and type text for desktop applications.

With Zv you can now watch a virtually unlimited menu of online TV shows and movies, play DVDs, check your e-mail, view photos, listen to music, and browse your favorite web sites. Best of all a single ZvBox, easily connected to your existing in-home cable TV wiring, makes it all happen. It’s that simple. No more flipping channels looking for something to watch. No more huddling around a computer to watch online shows. If it’s out there, you can watch it on your HDTVs from the comfort of your couch.

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Nice piece of hardware, but the price is very very steep. Plus my PS3 can do this as well. Maybe at $200.00 I'd buy it.

I am admittedly not that current and knowledgable as most of you people on this forum, but I think I read that Toshiba is putting a SUC chip in their HDTV's. So does this mean that when we watch movies online, it could be upconverted to almost HD quality, or am I just way out in left field here.

Apparently that's the plan. I don't even know if this chip really exists but yeah they wanna throw it on TV's so that even analogue channels look good. At least thats the way I understood it from one of the other threads here.

I could easily do that with a makeshift network consisting of one PC and a few original XBOXes with Linux installed on them. It would probably cost less than $400 too.

The guy with the checkered shit...I really hope someone spilled a drink on him cause if thats sweat...sheesh.