A major emphasis was placed on features to truly make the MediaSmart Server, well, Media ‘Smart.’ Seamless integration of video streaming to PCs and the iPhone, plus HP’s Video Converter handling drag and drop conversion of video formats offered up a convenient encoding and streaming solution for digital media beginners who wouldn’t know Handbrake from Gmail.
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The software hadn’t changed much at that time, sans some support for Macs, but the addition of some useful improvements like Media Collector, better media streaming, and power saving utilities rounded out the package nicely… even if some of those features were limited and didn’t work as reliably as we would have liked.įast forward a bit, and HP’s 2.5 update significantly changed the MediaSmart Server for the better. Moving from AMD’s aged Sempron line to Intel’s Celeron stepped up the performance while keeping power consumption low, and a significant addition to the onboard system memory made it feel less like a dog. Some would say HP’s 2nd generation MediaSmart Servers (The EX485 and EX487) were really intended to solve some severe hardware deficiencies plaguing the first generation models.
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HP’s hitting the upcoming holiday season at full steam, armed with a third generation MediaSmart Server lineup to replace the relatively young EX-485 and EX-487. Thought you had to wait until sometime next year to get your mitts on a new HP MediaSmart Server?
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