With the Wireless 5x2 HD Matrix, businesses can eliminate the need for a second Blu-ray, cable box, game console or VCR and help streamline costs and space for equipment.
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Valve, best known for the Half-Life, Left4Dead and the Steam online game store has long been known to be working on a console or set-top box that puts PC-based titles onto a TV.
Mulldorfer testified that in July 1994 she looked in the side door pockets, the console area and perhaps the glove box in her search for credit card receipts.
Microsoft may be preparing a lite version of its next-generation console specifically made for set-top box purposes.
The typical American couch spud already has a number of "boxes" attached to his television set: A VCR, a cable-TV decoder box and perhaps a videogame console like a Sony PlayStation.
It also means offering broadband Internet service accessible via a personal digital assistant, game console, cell phone or set-top box.
Wii U has to make the case to turn to it rather than a set-top box connected TV, competing games console - Xbox's extensive range of TV partners makes it a formidable competitor in this respect - and even a tablet or smartphone.
Remember: your brand new Wii U can do literally nothing outside of build Miis and play disc-based games before the update, so don't go freaking out when your console seems to be missing a few key functions out of the box.
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For many people without a games console or HDMI hookup to their computer, that means a Roku set-top box.
In the past it has dismissed claims that it is working on a console-like device that would put its Steam online gaming service into a stand-alone box.
The Vybe works with any sound source such as a gaming console, TV, computer, or mobile phone using a standard audio cable (included in the box).
With it, the console's touch-screen GamePad controller becomes a remote control for your TV and set-top box.
The story provides some other specs on the new console: Edge reports that there will be new version of the Xbox Live online service, and that the box will ship with an updated version of the Kinect gesture control device.
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Obviously most console titles are not yet being downloaded, but it does cut out practically the entire PC market which rarely buys box copies of games.
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