Niveus Media releases ONEbox Media Center

A startup company called Niveus Media introduced its ONEbox Media Center This PC is built around a VIA Mini-ITX M10000 Motherboard with a 1 GHz processor. Priced at $999 it includes a standard settop box case, 80GB hard drive, a DVD-ROM drive, an ATI All-In-Wonder VE TV card, 10/100 ethernet, firewire, USB serial and parallel ports. Operating system is the home edition of Windows XP. Niveus Media has developed its own software — called ONEbox Media Center — to control playback of DVD, video, music, photos and TV. Titan’s electronic programming guide (EPG) is also included in the package for TiVo-like PVR functionality. The OneBOX will work with Comcast’s digital cable, but other digital cable services are also not currently supported. The system has left room for user enhancements like swapping in a DVD burner or adding wireless networking. Niveus Media is currently testing an HDTV version with PVR capabilities.