Got an extra $1000 laying around for fancy home theater remote? HomeTheaterBlog has a review of the programmable MX-3000 Remote from Home Theater Master.

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Toshiba announced the RD-X5 DVD Recorder supporting a 600Gig of recording space. It can store 1,071 hours of quality television.

It make me feel a little inadequate in the size dept.

(Hat Tip: Engadget)

eHomeUpgrade has the scoop on the new Kenwood receiver that has media streaming features. According to Kenwood’s website, the MSRP is $800.

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Gizmodo points out yet another personal video player (PVP) that is available in Japan.

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Conexant announced a new HDTV decoder developed for set-top boxes. It also includes PVR features including this blurb:

PVR functionality is fully supported enabling end-users to simultaneously watch and record up to four separate programs, or record a program while watching up to two live or previously recorded programs.

Sounds pretty cool.

CarAudioMag.com shows you how to put a Playstation 2 in your car.

I’d be really nervous having this guy behind me during my commute.

(Hat Tip: Engadget)

Anandtech.com has a great review of Microsoft’s Portable Media Center technology and it’s first licensed product, Creative’s Zen Player. It goes into quite a bit of detail and adds some caveats for people who are interested in getting one.

The main issue mentioned is that you are required to use Windows Media Player 10 to manage and synchronize your content. That’s good since it means that it will transcode any video (as long as you download the codec) from their original format to something that can be read by the player so that eliminates the worries of incompatible video formats. That’s bad if you don’t like WMP 10 and prefer an alternative multimedia manager.

I’m going to wait to see what the open source community does with this device. If they find a way to hack it to use with other software products, I’ll be more interested. It would also be nice to hack it and install a much larger hard drive, considering how cheap they are these days.

I’m not much of gamer these days, but Engadget has me revved up about the upcoming Playstation Portable. According to Sony’s press release, the new Playstation Portable could be an interesting product for people on the go.

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On Tuesday, we pointed out a review for a fanless power supply from ePower Technologies for those build-your-own PVR users that want a silent monster PC in their living room. Here’s another product review that puts you one step closer, a fanless CPU Heatsink that will support both AMD and P4 CPUs.

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Tom’s hardware has a head to head review of two products that will allow you to stream music directly from your PC to your stereo. If you don’t want to turn your television on and live without video streaming, these two options look pretty compelling.

The Squeezebox unit has an two line character display on the receiver, giving you the necessary feedback to setup and play music. The Creative unit has an LCD directly on the remote control.

Like all TomsHardware reviews, it goes into a lot of detail on each product and based on your willingness to part with cash vs. features, you can draw your own conclusion on which one is a better fit.