The IdeaCentre D400 home server and Q100 and Q110 nettops will be available in mid-September.
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Lenovo's first home server - the IdeaCentre D400 - makes managing content across several PCs simple.
ENGADGET: Lenovo debuts IdeaCentre D400 home server, 'world's thinnest' Q100 and Q110 nettops
Lenovo's IdeaCentre D400 home server securely houses large amounts of data for professional and personal use, including videos, music and photos.
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But for the rest, this is where Windows Home Server comes in.
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Maybe Microsoft will eat the entire DVR market for lunch with a combination of Media Center, Windows Home Server and the Xbox 360.
At first it might seem like a stretch to connect the future of Windows Media Center (WMC) with Windows Home Server (WHS), but hear us out.
ENGADGET: Is the future of Windows Media Center with Windows Home Server?
With that being said, we've convinced ourselves that the future of Media Center, and the key to wider adoption that we think it deserves, is with Windows Home Server.
ENGADGET: Is the future of Windows Media Center with Windows Home Server?
Add a few more components and a little more software, and it could become a home server that holds games, movies and music, and distributes them over a home network.
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These include low-cost remote access appliances like the PogoPlug, midrange NAS storage devices such as Netgear's Stora, and expensive but powerful solutions that cater to the technically inclined, such as HP's MediaSmart products powered by Windows Home Server.
After we ramp this all up to the long-term future of TV, we come back to reality with Windows Home Server's inclusion of Media Center features -- while not to the level of a true headless Media Center PC, this move might foreshadow (maybe not too-distant) future development of just such a kit.
Downloading goes via the PlayStation 3 console, turning it into a home computer server that can handle movie rentals as well as play games.
The user interface on the Home Media Server and clients is based on HTML5, which we're told is why it's so snappy and switches so quickly between other apps like YouTube and HSN's Shop By Remote.
Those four include a 3D set, a 4K2K version that upcoverts 1080p to 3840 x 2160 resolution, a 46-inch model integrating its CELL BOX dedicated TV tuner and HDD, and a 37-inch that works as a home network server.
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Rarely are leaks intentional: Somebody at work might post a file on a server to download at home, a wrongly configured server might make too much of a hard drive searchable or a Web site's password-protection might be flimsy enough to be accessible to search engines.
And so in the case of the set-top box you typically would store the video back on the server, either the Media Center server in the home, or the your video provider server back at the head-end.
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"The new Asustor AS 3 Series NAS devices with the Intel Atom CE5300 series provide the performance needed for home media file server functionality, " said Asustor president, Shawn Shu.
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The PC itself is likely to become the central brain of a networked home, a miniature server in control of everything from your evening's entertainment to the air conditioning.
Setting up your server on your home network should be fairly straightforward.
Improves Apple File Service performance, especially when using a home directory hosted on an AFP server.
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The law currently differentiates between emails stored on your home computer versus those stored on the server of a third party, because of the way technology worked back in 1986.
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It seems obvious that at some point the home is going to need a standalone server big enough to store and manage the endless gobs of data that will make up our entertainment universe in the coming years.
Attaching appliances to a power socket via a smart plug containing sensors and a ZigBee transceiver allows information about the appliances' power consumption to be beamed automatically to a broadband router within the home, and thence to a web server located elsewhere.
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Twonky Beam is part of Packet Video's full suite of connected home products, which includes the flagship Twonky Server software.
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"When we searched Ian Frost's home in 2006, we found a huge server sat in the lounge and soon realised it wasn't a routine investigation and contacted Ceops (Child Exploitation and Online Protection Centre), " he said.
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It becomes a technical challenge, involving latency, compression and robustness, to shift the relationship from home PC and handset to always-on remote server and handset.
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Performing as a Digital Media Server, the SE-208BW will be a keystone of home entertainment, providing a connection between mobile devices and TV or PC, and also a triangular connection among TVs, PCs and mobile devices.
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