Tom over at the Home System Integration website has a very interesting article on using the Netgear XAVB1004 for your home theatre setup.
Here is how Tom starts the article:
I’ve had more than one person ask me recently about the best way to get connectivity to their Home Theater without running cables “down the hall” as one friend put it in his post on our forums.
Considering that every single component I have in my Home Theater has an Ethernet port, it’s obvious that having connectivity is becoming essential. Even if you don’t have a Home Theater PC (HTPC) or Windows Home Server (WHS) in the vicinity of your Home Theater, there are still plenty of reasons to have your remaining devices accessible to the internet. As a very minimum requirement, most of the peripherals receive regular firmware updates directly from the Internet. My Samsung BD-P1600 will connect to my Netflix, Blockbuster, and Pandora as well as the connectivity needed for the PS3 and all of its games and applications.
The point is that today’s Home Theater setup, no matter how minimalistic it might be, can really benefit by having network connectivity. So the question arises…
“What is the best way to get Internet and LAN connectivity to my Home Theater?”
So as things often seem to work out, I happened to chance upon a guy named Eric doing product demos at Fry’s Electronics between shows and got to talking to him about the product he was presenting. Eric happens to work in the Marketing Department of Netgear and the nifty little unit he was doing a demo on this particular day was Netgear’s Home Theater Internet Connection Kit. We spoke for a few and he was kind enough to send me home with a unit to evaluate for this article!
Hey…it’s my first official product demo, I felt pretty dang cool!
It’s a very interesting read, and well done to Tom. You should check out his site, it has lots of interesting articles. And why not leave him some feedback?
You can read the full article from here.
Thanks Andrew, hope you liked the article. Personally, I think this is a pretty dang cool piece of technology and am actually going to continue to use it in my home! Tom