A Dutch tech startup company called PCzapper.TV BV has introduced the world’s most affordable Media Center Extender product. The product (called the PCzapper TV Extender) is currently on display at CeBIT and is expected to cost well below 100 EUR. As the name implies, the PCzapper TV Extender works with Microsoft Media Center Edition PCs and allows the MCE interface to be displayed on other television sets up to 25 feet away from the PC.

If you’re not thrilled with the Microsoft MCE UI, you can also use the PCzapper extender product to display the UI of PCzapper’s own Media Center UI called the PCzapper Basic.

 

The PCzapper TV Extender comes with the Microsoft Media Center remote control and a complete PC/TV connection kit.

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PCzapper.TV Introduces the Cheapest Extender for Media Center in the World; Now Everyone Can Enjoy Microsoft Media Center on Any Normal TV for Retail Prices Well Below EUR 100!

HANNOVER, Germany –(Business Wire)– March 8, 2006 PCzapper.TV BV, a Dutch high tech start up company introduces its PCzapper TV Extender on CeBIT (Hall 9, C10), the large consumer electronics trade show. The product extends all the functions of Microsoft’s Media Center to any normal TV, which can be located anywhere in the home. Now everyone can experience the easiness and pleasure of a Media Center on any TV. Package includes an official Media Center remote control and complete PC/TV connection kit plus Extender software.

The Media Center PC can be located up to 25 meters away from the TV. Vincent Everts, CEO: “our TV Extender is simple to install, easy to use and delivers excellent screen quality on TV.” We support Microsoft Windows XP Media Center strategy and have created this low cost / high quality product to bring it to the masses.”

PCzapper.TV also provides its own online media center software for existing PCs. This solution operates on the same PC/TV connection kit. PCzapper online media center is available as a free download for Windows 2000/XP.

The full product (PCzapper Basic) allows anyone to enjoy all types of media (photos, music and films) from the PC and internet, order films online, watch missed programs and more than 10.000 other videos and hundreds of television channels via internet directly on TV.

In the Netherlands the products have been coined “The only legal and readily available “media dislocator” (Emerce) and a “handy PC-to-TV solution. A simple and easy solution to connecting your television and your computer” (PCMagazine).

About PCzapper

PCzapper.TV BV is a young Dutch company, focussing on the integration of PC and TV. It is founded in 2005 by Vincent Everts (CEO and well-known in the Netherlands) and Jan Prins (COO). The products of PCzapper are for sale in almost 200 places.

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