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Netgear Goes Over-The-Top With Internet TV Box

‘Digital Entertainer Live' Provides Access To YouTube, CinemaNow, Hulu, Netflix

Todd Spangler -- Multichannel News, 9/8/2009 11:08:13 AM

Netgear has rolled out an Internet-connected set-top box designed to play video from YouTube, Hulu, Netflix, CBS.com, CinemaNow and other services directly on a big-screen TV.

The company's Digital Entertainer Live EVA2000, with a list price of $150, also provides menus to let users access personal movies, music and photos stored on a USB hard drive. The EVA2000 includes HDMI and composite cable interfaces, as well as RCA jacks for connecting to older analog TVs. The box includes an Ethernet port; Negear is selling a wireless USB adapter separately for $39.99.

The device also comes with a 14-day trial version of MediaMall Technologies' PlayOn software ($39.99 for the full version), which is able to access Internet video services including Hulu, Netflix, Amazon Video On Demand, BBC iPlayer and CBS.

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• The product announcement press release from Netgear includes the following line:
  
  "*VuNow service will be free for trial period and thereafter subject to paid annual subscriptions. The term of the trial period may be found at the Digital Entertainer Live product site located within www.netgear.com/vunow . The VuNow service will be subject to acceptance of the terms of the VuNow service and license agreement."
  
  When I contacted VuNow's support team, they had the following to say:
  
  "Currently VuNow does not have any subscription fee plans available."
  
  and in a follow-up email:
  
  "We will update you on the pricing once annual subscriptions are available."
  
  So, my question is - Where does this leave consumers of this product? The VAST majority of the product features come from the VuNow offering and if that goes subscription based as indicated in the press release, what are we signing up for and for how much?

  
  Chris Backus - 9/9/2009 12:35:35 PM EDT
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