Kodak Theatre HD Player

Many have tried to be that otherbox that sits under your TV. You know, the DVD player, the cable box,the TiVo, the consoles are all well and good, but somebody somehowneeds to solve they mystery of getting web and PC content onto your TV,and Kodak might be on the cusp of cracking it. Kodak's new KodakTheatre HD Player is a simple, slick little box with multiple flashcard slots, a USB port, and all the requisite home theater outputs likeHDMI, component and all that. The unit can naturally shuffle throughphotos like there's no tomorrow, and includes wireless access to pullstuff off of Flickr feeds or your PC's hard drive, but there's also720p video playback, online radio and what have you. The real clincheris that you won't be interacting with all this via a clunky d-padremote, but instead there's an amazingly great gyroscopic mouse thatmakes the whole thing a joy to use. The $300 price tag might turn somepeople off when this lands in September, especially with no built-instorage, but we still think Kodak might have a winner on its hands.