CES: Netgear Announces HD Media Reciever

Netgear Inc., has announced a collaboration with BitTorrent, which will allow its users to stream videos to high-definition televisions (HDTVs) via the new Netgear Digital Entertainer HD (EVA8000) media receiver. Popular Peer to peer network, BitTorrent will now work with Netgear on technology initiatives to deliver fast distribution of media files over home networks.

Patrick Lo, Netgear's chairman and chief executive officer said, "Our customers' growing appetite for quality HD content is well-served through Netgear's routers, adapters, media receivers and storage devices. Even with broadband connections, however, the experience is only as good as the technology delivering the content over the Internet and to the HDTV screen. The audio and video quality of the Digital Entertainer HD combined with the speed, simplicity and security in BitTorrent's delivery technology offers exactly the type of experience our customers demand."

Netgear's Digital Entertainer HD, debuted this week at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, is a sleek set-top media receiver, which connects to any home-theater system to stream digital media from computers, network storage and USB media players. The receiver automatically locates, organizes and plays high-definition movies, TV shows, music files and personal photos along with Internet-based video, news feeds, weather reports and radio programs. The receiver's high-definition multimedia interface (HDMI) port can display video resolution up to 1080p on big-screen TVs and its optical digital audio output can transmit full digital surround sound to a digital audio receiver.