03.12.2008 — You won’t get a Blu-ray drive on any of the official Media Center Extenders offered by Niveus, D-Link, Linksys or HP. But you can get it on the Vana VA6420-Si Advanced Extender from Inteset.
Inteset’s “Extender” product line is not based on Microsoft’s Extender platform, but it performs all of the Media Center remoting capabilities—and more—enabled by traditional extenders.

The VA6420-Si plays back Blu-ray content at a full 1080p resolution over DVI and HDMI interfaces. The Blu-ray drive will also be available on Inteset’s Vana VA6420-Sx Single Room solution.

“We offer HD-DVD and Blu-ray playback capability on our media server. It’s a natural progression to offer Blu-ray on our extender units now that we know the format war is over,” says David Hirsh, director of business development. “Users can now play back virtually any content they want, in any room they want.”

In the coming months, Inteset will be releasing a new version of its Movie Collection Vista Media Center module that will incorporate theb new format.

Inteset is demonstrating the new solution at EHX.