2 People Are Speaking Their Mind

1. Charles Says:

   January 13th, 2010 at 12:51 pm

   “If you have a bunch of black TV gadget boxes in your front room then this is a great device to bring them all together and make them accessible from one remote and allow online access. As a home media convergence device it does the job well.”

   I believe there has been a product around for awhile now called a UNIVERSAL REMOTE.

   Also there are apps you can get for free that stream media to iPhone from your computer.

   I’m not sure what to say about this device but for it’s price I can’t justify anyone buying it.

2. Chris Tew Says:

   January 14th, 2010 at 4:13 pm

   I think they’ve not made it clear enough exactly what they intend it to be used for – bad marketing really.

   I think the idea is you have your HD devices hooked up directly to your TV and can control them through the universal remote. They are then hooked up separately to your Zaggbox for remote viewing via internet (which won’t be HD anyway but well compressed for internet viewing). So it is essentially a Slingbox.

   Then the added bonus is you can view media from any networked device (e.g a NAS or Laptop) somewhere in the house and watch that content. You can also send any of the media on the Zaggbox to any other device in the house over the home network.

   The universal remote is supposed to be pretty sweet too, especially for the iPhone.

   Now if it was $400 I’d think it might be worth having given its functionality – but it certainly doesn’t have $800 functionality – nowhere close.

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