Remember those days when families spent their evenings in the living room huddled around the TV?

Yep, for many of us those days are all but gone–replaced by hours of surfing the web, emailing, chatting, checking on things at work, blogging and organizing our digital photos or our online music or movie collections.

So you think all this time spent online cuts mostly into what was once our TV time, or our time spent with friends and family?

The Stanford Institute for the Quantitative Study of Society thinks they know the answer, and you may be surprised by the results of their recent study. More on that later.

Regardless of how much TV you watch, it is clear we are all spending more and more of our precious time holed up in the office or stuck in front of a PC. The reason is obvious–the Internet has given us access to–or allowed us to give access to–a vast and diverse inventory of entertaining, interesting, tantalizing, informative, and useful content and done so with convenience beyond almost anyone’s (except maybe Steve Jobs’s) wildest dreams.

But it’s still not easy to bring all that great content over to your girlfriend’s house or share it with the rest of the family in the den.  Let’s face it, real-time family and friends just haven’t been integrated into the system (whoa!  that’s geek talk for 2 people + 1 PC = 1 dull time).

Well, a simple, easy to use, no-nonsense, affordable new high-tech device is changing all that.  It’s called the TVIX Box Digital Multimedia Player and it sells for well under $200 bucks.

TVIX Box M-3100U Digital Multimedia Player with RemoteFor taking digital content into the living room it just can’t be beat. It plays nearly all kinds of video, audio and digital image files on any television or home entertainment system.

Take a collection of digital photos for instance.  Let’s say you want to share them at your next family gathering.  If you’re like most of us you’re limited to just a few options:

  1. Print the photos (costly and/or time consuming)
  2. Leave them on the camera and pass it around (yuk!)
  3. Gather around your PC (and watch the attention fade . . .)

Three lousy options.  Sure, you can get technical and come up with some other ones, but instead let’s look at the same example only using TVIX Box’s new M-3100U Digital Multimedia Player.

  1. Plug the device into any USB port on your PC.  It detects like any mass storage device.
  2. Copy and paste your photos (all or some, as you wish) to the TVIX Box just like you would from any folder to another
  3. Unplug the device from the PC and plug it into the TV (it works with pretty much any TV)
  4. Pick up the remote (included) and press play!

It supports custom play lists, shuffle mode, DVD menu’s–the works.  Now you can expereince all your digital media together with friends and family, in the living room, on the big screen.

To get more information or purchase a TVIX Box M-3100U visit the TVIX Box online store at www.tvixbox.com.

And last but not least, according to the report released by the Stanford Institute for the Quantitative Study of Society, time online is much more likely to cut into time with family and friends than it is to cut into TV time.

But with a little effort we can save that time, and luckily the TVIX Box is here and downloaded media is finaly ready for prime time.

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