Thoughts on building a high-def ready HTPC

Just kicking around some ideas for what would be an ideal next gen optical format (HD DVD and/or Blu-ray) ready HTPC. This is of course somewhat hypothetical as, alas, I don't have the hand's on knowledge… yet. This is culled from what I know from informal testing, user reports, and decoding performance benchmarks available on the web. Feel free to […]

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AMD ATI TV Wonder Digital Cable Tuner

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PC Persective has collected a few slides that ATi was showing at CES about the ATI TV Wonder Digital Cable Tuner. Nothing much we haven't seen in the past few days. However, it is another useful resource:) From the article: Most of the information that could be provided to us was shown in these slides, but I wanted to reiterate […]

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Experience 1080p HD content now

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Now let me first say, all this article is basically, is a bunch of pretty, high quality images. BUT, if you're curious as to what 1080p content looks like, and are too lazy to download a trailer on your own, it's at least a fun read. (And the Bikini HD DVD screen caps are very…..special? :-P)     Read…errr….see the […]

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Why I Won’t Buy Apple’s iTV

Dave Zatz puts his $0.02 into how he feels about Apple's new product, iTV, and doesn't pull any punches. I'm curious to see how it fares, but I think how poorly the original FrontRow software did in the market is a sign that maybe this just isn't the market for Apple. First off, early reports pegged this device at a […]

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The Media Center Show #90 CES Part 1

Ian's an absolute machine. Guy flies to Vegas for CES, stays a few days, shoots right back to England, and puts out a Media Center Show, right on schedule, without any delay. Bravo! This time up is some CES news, so check it out!  Show Times: 00:40 Coming up this week 01:36 Pictures from CES 02:00 What I saw and […]

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Microsoft And Broadcom Team Up

LAS VEGAS — Jan. 8, 2007 — Today at the 2007 International Consumer Electronics Show (CES), Microsoft Corp. and Broadcom Corp. announced a joint effort to support a hardware and software reference design for more cost-efficient HD DVD playback. The new platform uses Microsoft® Windows® CE 6.0 and Broadcom’s BCM7440 system-on-chip solution, allowing consumer electronics manufacturers, original design manufacturers and […]

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