What with all the hubbub going on yesterday about Windows Media Center Edition 2005, it's appropriate that Voodoo also announced their new MCE-based product, the Vibe (we have no idea why it's not called the Xvibe, or something). With their own version of Microsoft's Media Center Extender for Xbox (which uses your Xbox as an MCE server console of sorts, displaying and controlling your MCE server remotely) they've managed to take the home theater PC out of the living room, put it somewhere else, like under your bed with your other computers. This way it's only your Xbox that makes all the fan noise and takes up the space. And it makes a whole lot of sense when you think about it, since who wants a full-size PC sitting in their living room? But then again, why pay $5,000 for one of these when for way cheaper you could do something similar wirelessly? Sure, you don't get the Xbox Media Center console aspect, but you know, you take the good, you take the bad.
