Iomega Shows Off New Home Media Players at CES

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Jeff Gamet

3:37 PM, Jan. 8th ET, 2010

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LAS VEGAS -- Iomega showed off its new ScreenPlay home media center lineup at CES 2010 in Las Vegas Friday. The ScreenPlay Director HD and the ScreenPlay TV Link Director Edition offer full 1080p HD resolution and are expandable for additional TV and movie storage space.

The ScreenPlay Director HD includes a 1TB hard drive, an HDMI port, three USB ports, Gigabit Ethernet, Wi-Fi suport via an add-on adapter, composite video and a remote control. It supports several popular video formats such as MPEG-1 and 2, MPEG-4, H.264, WMV and AVCHD, along with the MP3, AC3, WAV, OG, WMA, AAC and FLAC audio formats.

Iomega's ScreenPlay Director HD

The ScreenPlay TV Link Director Edition offers the same features as the ScreenPlay Director HD, but doesn't include a built-in hard drive. Instead, users can connect their own drives to the device. Both can stream content from other computers on the local network, attached hard drives and USB flash drives, as well as digital cameras.

The ScreenPlay Link Director Edition

The ScreenPlay Director HD also includes CinemaNow movie and TV show rentals and purchases through Cinema Now, YouTube support, and RSS support.

"We want to make home media players that are easy to use and affordable," Iomega told The Mac Observer.

The ScreenPlay Director HD is priced at US$249.99, and the ScreenPlay TV Link Director Edition costs $99.

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gedirk said on February 4th, 2010 at 5:12 AM:

ScreenPlay Director HD Media Player is NOT fully compatible with Mac is spite of what they claim. There is a file limit of 4Gb you can transmit to the disk (difficult for HD film files) and HDfiles exported out of imovie don’t play or play without sound. (I tried all kinds of formats & codecs).
They say they can’t support ALL codecs.
No problems though with jpg en mp3 files from iphoto or itunes.
So if u are mac it is not plug and play!

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