Via brings hi-fi to the low end
News Via Technologies has unveiled a new motherboard aimed at computer makers who want to offer hi-fi media capabilities in PCs costing less than about £250. Via said that its low-cost PC strategy is beginning to pay off.
[January 6, 2003, 13:35]
VIA cranks out the Hi-Fi PC
News Motherboard manufacturer VIA Technologies will further blur the distinction between consumer electronics and computers early next year when its hardware partners begin shipping what it calls the Hi-Fi PC.
[October 21, 2002, 12:45]
Via moves away from the 'monolithic PC'
News Via sees a big future for PCs that are tailored for specific markets, such as the Silent Mini-ITX PC from Hush Technologies, a fan-less PC that looks like a Hi-Fi component. It is somewhat similar to Via's earlier Hi-Fi PC concept, but uses a low...
[March 31, 2003, 16:12]
PCs shape up as masters of disguise
News See ZDNet UK's report on the Hi-Fi PC. Got a burning desire to build a PC out of a gas can? The catalyst for change looks likely to be the popularity of digital music, digital video recorders and DVD movies, which has carved out a place for the PC...
[November 28, 2002, 7:48]
Nuggets: Samsung's DVD hybrid
News Samsung sticks a hi-fi and a DVD player together. So it's come up with the MAX-945D -- as part of Nuggets' continuing crusade against stupid names, we have to mark it down for not just leaving it at "MAX" -- which is a combined DVD and hi-fi system.
[August 26, 1999, 15:33]
Sony VAIO PCV-W1 review
Reviews Finished in a tasteful silver/grey mix of aluminium, acrylic and plastic, the VAIO W1 certainly looks classy -- it resembles nothing so much as a piece of Bang & Olufsen hi-fi gear. However, it does move, having three different positions: when the...
[October 8, 2003, 11:50]
Silence is golden (or black, or silver)
News The Silent Mini-ITX looks much like a Hi-Fi component such as a CD player, and has only the power switch and the drive bay to adorn the front panel. This PC uses the Mini-ITX form factor motherboard introduced by VIA last year.
[March 13, 2003, 14:17]
Dataquest Predicts: Net eyeballs focus on TV, not PC
News Some cable operators are already incorporating cable modems on to set top boxes and O'Donovan predicts a future when the TV becomes like the stack Hi-Fi's of old. The figures were unveiled at Dataquest's annual Predicts '99 conference in Paris on...
[June 8, 1999, 10:29]
