Why buy a ready-made media PC when you can build your own? Adaptec this week announced the VideOh DVD Media Center, a package containing all the tools to convert your existing PC into a combination digital video recorder and editing machine.
Other companies sell the individual pieces for such a conversion, but Adaptec appears to be the first company to package in one box everything necessary to convert an existing PC.
Well, not quite everything. Although the VideOh DVD Media Center has the acronym DVD in its name, it lacks a DVD (or even CD-ROM) burner. But it does have a tuner, a remote control, a video cable, MPEG compression hardware, video editing and burning software, and a free online video guide.
Adaptec expects the package will be available in stores by mid-June. The external USB version will list for $170; the internal PCI version will cost $200
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