Who here wants to watch Hulu.com’s free movies and TV shows on their big-screen HDTV?
IOGear HDMI Control Center
Irvine’s IOGear may have something of interest. Its upcoming HDMI Control Center, part of the company’s new audio-video AVOIR product line, simplifies the union between PC and TV and other high-definition video sources by relying on what IOGear knows best: a KVM switch.
I know I may have lost half of you with that abbreviation. But bear with me. KVM is short for Keyboard Video and Mouse and, in the past decade, the technology was popular with people who worked on multiple computers but only wanted to use one keyboard, one monitor and one mouse. A KVM switch lets someone switch back and fourth between two or more computers.
Now turn that monitor into an HDTV and add in a few high-definition video players, like a game console and Blu-ray disc player. This is what IOGear’s new HDMI Control Center does. It offers a way for consumers to easily switch between a computer, PlayStation 3 and other video device, but use the same keyboard and mouse. That’s right — pull up Hulu on your laptop and you’ve got big-screen happiness. There’s also a USB port on the front (and two more in the back) for that occasional slide show of digital photos.
Ruben Lugo, IOGear’s product marketing manager for the HDMI controller, demonstrated the technology for me on a recent afternoon and I wanted to share my first look at the HDMI Control Center. I took my point-and-shoot camera and shot some video. Far from professional, but hopefully you get the idea:
More thoughts and lots of photos after the jump…
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