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02-15-2006, 05:58 PM
<p>Filed under: <a href="http://ces.engadget.com" rel="tag">CES</a>, <a href="http://hdtv.engadget.com" rel="tag">HDTV</a>, <a href="http://homeentertainment.engadget.com" rel="tag">Home Entertainment</a>, <a href="http://mediapcs.engadget.com" rel="tag">Media PCs</a></p><div id="pc580570"><div align="center"> <a href="http://www.ricavision.com/pages/product_extria.htm"><img vspace="4" hspace="4" border="0"
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<br />How much do we love <a
href="http://www.engadget.com/search/?q=VIIV">VIIV</a>-based Media Center excess? We love it lots and lots, so <a
href="http://www.engadget.com/search/?q=Ricavision">Ricavision</a> gets a gold star for bringing joy to our faces and
lots of juicy specs to the table with their new Plix Extria. Ranging in price form $3000 to $5000, the Extria packs in
up to 2.5TB of storage, but at CES they were showing off a 1.2TB version, which was holding four 300GB SATA HDDs. The
box was powered by a Dual Core Pentium D 3.2 Extreme Edition, had an Intel VIIV 975 ATX chipset, a 7800GT 256MB
graphics card from NVIDIA, 2GB of RAM and tuners galore: dual NTSC, 2 S-Video in ports, and an ATSC tuner, with a free
upgrade available to <a
href="http://engadget.com/2006/01/06/atis-ocur-worlds-first-cablecard-hdtv-tuner-for-vista-pcs/">ATI's OCUR</a> for
CableCard support once it starts shipping.<br /><br />[Via <a href="http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=28923">The
Inquirer</a>]</div><h6 style="clear: both; padding: 8px 0 0 0; height: 2px; font-size: 1px; border: 0; margin: 0; padding: 0;"></h6><a href=http://www.ricavision.com/pages/product_extria.htm>Read</a>*|*<a href="http://hdtv.engadget.com/2006/01/12/ricavisions-crazy-decked-plix-extria-viiv-media-centers/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent link to this entry">Permalink</a>*|*<a href="http://hdtv.engadget.com/forward/580570/" title="Send this entry to a friend via email">Email this</a>*|*<a href="http://www.technorati.com/cosmos/search.html?rank=&fc=1&url=http://hdtv.engadget.com/2006/01/12/ricavisions-crazy-decked-plix-extria-viiv-media-centers/" title="Linking Blogs">Linking*Blogs</a>*|*<a href="http://hdtv.engadget.com/2006/01/12/ricavisions-crazy-decked-plix-extria-viiv-media-centers/#comments" title="View reader comments on this entry">Comments</a><br /><br /><p><map name="google_ad_map_21-580570"><area shape="rect" href="http://imageads.googleadservices.com/pagead/imgclick/21-580570?pos=0" coords="1,2,367,28" /><area shape="rect" href="http://services.google.com/feedback/abg" coords="384,10,453,23" /></map><img usemap="#google_ad_map_21-580570" border="0" src="http://imageads.googleadservices.com/pagead/ads?format=468x30_aff_img&client=ca-pub-3546992251556849&channel=22&output=png&cuid=21-580570&url=http://hdtv.engadget.com/2006/01/12/ricavisions-crazy-decked-plix-extria-viiv-media-centers/" /></p>
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<br />How much do we love <a
href="http://www.engadget.com/search/?q=VIIV">VIIV</a>-based Media Center excess? We love it lots and lots, so <a
href="http://www.engadget.com/search/?q=Ricavision">Ricavision</a> gets a gold star for bringing joy to our faces and
lots of juicy specs to the table with their new Plix Extria. Ranging in price form $3000 to $5000, the Extria packs in
up to 2.5TB of storage, but at CES they were showing off a 1.2TB version, which was holding four 300GB SATA HDDs. The
box was powered by a Dual Core Pentium D 3.2 Extreme Edition, had an Intel VIIV 975 ATX chipset, a 7800GT 256MB
graphics card from NVIDIA, 2GB of RAM and tuners galore: dual NTSC, 2 S-Video in ports, and an ATSC tuner, with a free
upgrade available to <a
href="http://engadget.com/2006/01/06/atis-ocur-worlds-first-cablecard-hdtv-tuner-for-vista-pcs/">ATI's OCUR</a> for
CableCard support once it starts shipping.<br /><br />[Via <a href="http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=28923">The
Inquirer</a>]</div><h6 style="clear: both; padding: 8px 0 0 0; height: 2px; font-size: 1px; border: 0; margin: 0; padding: 0;"></h6><a href=http://www.ricavision.com/pages/product_extria.htm>Read</a>*|*<a href="http://hdtv.engadget.com/2006/01/12/ricavisions-crazy-decked-plix-extria-viiv-media-centers/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent link to this entry">Permalink</a>*|*<a href="http://hdtv.engadget.com/forward/580570/" title="Send this entry to a friend via email">Email this</a>*|*<a href="http://www.technorati.com/cosmos/search.html?rank=&fc=1&url=http://hdtv.engadget.com/2006/01/12/ricavisions-crazy-decked-plix-extria-viiv-media-centers/" title="Linking Blogs">Linking*Blogs</a>*|*<a href="http://hdtv.engadget.com/2006/01/12/ricavisions-crazy-decked-plix-extria-viiv-media-centers/#comments" title="View reader comments on this entry">Comments</a><br /><br /><p><map name="google_ad_map_21-580570"><area shape="rect" href="http://imageads.googleadservices.com/pagead/imgclick/21-580570?pos=0" coords="1,2,367,28" /><area shape="rect" href="http://services.google.com/feedback/abg" coords="384,10,453,23" /></map><img usemap="#google_ad_map_21-580570" border="0" src="http://imageads.googleadservices.com/pagead/ads?format=468x30_aff_img&client=ca-pub-3546992251556849&channel=22&output=png&cuid=21-580570&url=http://hdtv.engadget.com/2006/01/12/ricavisions-crazy-decked-plix-extria-viiv-media-centers/" /></p>
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