Move over, Front Row
Move over, Front Row
Dan Ackerman Editorial Director / Computers and Gaming
Dan Ackerman leads CNET's coverage of computers and gaming hardware. A New York native and former radio DJ, he's also a regular TV talking head and the author of "The Tetris Effect" (Hachette/PublicAffairs), a non-fiction gaming and business history book that has earned rave reviews from the New York Times, Fortune, LA Review of Books, and many other publications.
"Upends the standard Silicon Valley, Steve Jobs/Mark Zuckerberg technology-creation myth... the story shines." -- The New York Times
Expertise I've been testing and reviewing computer and gaming hardware for over 20 years, covering every console launch since the Dreamcast and every MacBook...ever. Credentials
- Author of the award-winning, NY Times-reviewed nonfiction book The Tetris Effect; Longtime consumer technology expert for CBS Mornings
Thanks to the nature of the Web, several DVR blogs today had almost simultaneous mentions of a new media management app for Macs. It's called MediaCentral (not to be confused with Microsoft's Media Center), and it's from a company called Equinux.
This app performs most of the same media organizing and playback functions as Apple's Front Row but adds support for popular video formats such as XVID, DIVX, and even DVDs. It's also compatible with Elegato's EyeTV external TV tuner devices, so there's no reason for Mac users to feel left out of the DVR revolution. Heck, you can even control it with an ATI Remote Wonder.
Best part? It's freeware and available for download on the Equinux site.
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