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NEWS: Falcon bridges the gap from PC to TV

Andrew Everard 07 April 2008 12:58

351 Image1 Mvix Player Black This is the Falcon MVIX Media Centre, designed to work as a wireless bridge between your PC and TV, and allow video content to be streamed in HD for viewing.

The £200 unit can also be used for remote storage, as it has space inside for a 3.5in hard drive, or can be used with a remote USB drive.

It's said to be capable of working with 'pretty much any media file or video format', and across Windows, Mac OSX and Linux operating systems.

The unit can connect to TVs or projectors via HDMI, DVI, composite, component or S-video connections, and in the absence of a wireless network can also be hooked up via Ethernet.

It's available from this week from online retailer Thumbs Up.

Technorati Tags: HDMI, HDTV, streaming, wireless, Wireless HD

Comments

skr1 April 7, 2008 18:07

Thumbs up from me.

can we expect a test?

rapsey April 7, 2008 19:04

this is a good bit of kit for the money wish it came in silver as well to match everyones system

Andrew Everard April 7, 2008 21:49

skr1 sample is on order

rapsey oh well life's like that...

ashfaqqasim April 7, 2008 22:39

I wish if What Hi*Fi team can put more reviews on these kind of gadget as hifi is going beyond av boxes and consumer are adopting new trends to make like life simple.

I also hope if these gadgets are compared with traditional products to see how they perform in real world sense.

paulsmithjeans April 8, 2008 09:14

So can this allow me to surf the net on my TV in another room? Or is it purely for streaming video wirelessly to my TV? I f not, what would I be able to use instead of buying a PS3? Sorry bit of a n00b!...

nazidk12 April 8, 2008 10:25

I'm also in the market for such a device, who wants a mountain of disks to search through? Below is some options I've explored, would welcome other opinions on the below.

MVIX HD780 (as above, called the Falcon in the UK?): www.mvix.net.au/index.html (this is what I'm leaning towards at the moment -HD 780 does HDMI and wireless, as well upgrades for torrent downloads)

Mediagate: www.mediagateusa.com/products.html

Popcorn hour: http://www.popcornhour.com/ (brilliant system with a stupid name, but it plays everything inc MKV (hi-def compressed files) and even does torrent downloads directly without need for a computer - unfortunately theres a waiting list of months!)

Dvico Tvix: www.cnet.com.au/.../0,239035858,339283113,00.htm (these are pretty good, more high end but very expensive -the Mvix will do the same for much cheaper)

rajdeep April 21, 2008 00:17

andrew can you tell me if the audio quality from the mvix is as good as playing from a cd player if the audio file is uncompressed

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About Andrew Everard

Andrew Everard, Audio Editor of Gramophone since November 1999 and What Hi-Fi? Sound and Vision's Consulting Editor, read English at Queens' College, Cambridge a very long time ago! He started his journalistic career in 1982 on Haymarket's photographic magazines, and subsequently worked on What Hi-Fi?, High Fidelity, Audiophile and Home Cinema magazines, as well as contributing a monthly column to Japanese title HiVi.