If you ’ve been around long enough , you ’ll rememberAll Giz want — our series of fanciful and unlikely wishlist item that would totally make this the Best Holidays Ever if we get them . Here ’s one I ’ve been wish for for the better part of a decade : an all - in - one set top box that does everything .
Here ’s what we mean . Look at your entertainment system . If you ’re like us , you might have a TiVo ( or a supplier - trademark box ) , a gambling system , a DVD player , a high-pitched - def videodisk musician a Slingbox and an AppleTV . Why do we need all this crap ? This is what we want in a set top box :
• HD DVR Functinality . For example , a TiVo or a Windows Media Center box ’s picture transcription capability .
• DVD , HD DVD , Blu - electron beam playback . All in one .
• play . shed an Xbox 360 / PS3 / Wii in there and we ’ve got ourselves a date . Oh , and we ’ll need microcomputer gaming as well .
• Slingbox - way broadcast medium . Have this box flow to every gadget you own , be it PSP , iPhone , Windows Mobile or a laptop .
• On Demand . Make it favorable with your cable provider ’s capacity .
• Format Agnostic . need Apple ’s moving picture ? Done . need Amazon ’s flick ? Done . Want Netflix ’s movies ? Done . Make it play back message from every digital online store .
• Friendly interface . Everyone do it the TiVo user interface , but let ’s take that an expand it to encompass every sort of medium you could want to run back on this miracle box .
• Plug and act with other gadget . Got a Zune that you need to play back medicine from ? Just bob it into the box . get a television camera you charge an minute of footage with and need to watch ? Plug it in .
We suppose the closest affair to this box is an genuine PC , so you could get a kind of fair bringing close together if you sting a Mac or a Vista HTPC machine to your TV . It would n’t have all the features , and it would n’t be nearly as favorable as we want , but that ’s why this is a wishlist .
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