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Going on sale in North America in October 2010 for a scant $220, Netgear’s NeoTV 550 improves upon the Digital Entertainer Live (that modified 5 port switch case with a so so media player crammed inside). This version ramps up to 1080p support (from 720p in the Live) and DTS multichannel audio, and codec support includes H.264, Mpeg-2, Mp4, AVI, Windows Media, and DivX/Xvid, among others. Read through to find more information, and a specification table. Hopefully we can get our mittens on one to determine if the existing IP driver for Control4 from the 8000/9100/9150 models will work, and what kind of experience is had with “HD Content” we have sitting around our network. We don’t know how it got there, honest.

Netgear’s new EVA9100 Digital Entertainer Express is one of the latest boxes in a myraid of contenders vying for your hard earned cash and a spot in your rack. If you’re familiar with the 9100′s older sibling, the 9150, you already know a lot about the EVA9100 – but the big difference is the lack [...]