Month: July 2007

AMD Offers the Ultimate HDTV and DVR Home Theater Experience for Notebook and Desktop PCs

SUNNYVALE, Calif.–(July 9, 2007)–AMD (NYSE: AMD) today introduced two new solutions that offer high-definition television (HDTV) viewing and digital video recording (DVR) capabilities on desktop and notebook PCs. With the launch of these two new multimedia products, AMD continues to blaze a leadership path in video capture that bridges the analog and digital HDTV worlds. With the external plug-and-play ATI […]

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Getting my HDTV to work with my PC

A FAQ to help you understand your HDTV options with an eye to HTPC usage. What is my HDTV’s native resolution? Don’t confuse "native resolution" with resolutions an HDTV set can accept. HDTVs can usually accept all formats of digital TV but they are up/down converted to the native resolution(s) of the TV. CRT based HDTVs – (both direct-view and […]

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Verizon Under the Wire; Dodges CableCARD Deadline

Interesting development, I’m curious how Verizon customers feel about this. Are they content with it since there’s really not much cable card devices now, and then they have all those digital channels to look forward to (*cough* in 2009), or just mad that they get to stall even longer? Connected Home  It’s been interesting to watch the clock run down […]

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Sharp Announces First Blu-ray Player

Sharp has announced their first Blu-ray player and it looks to be a doozy. Expect support for HDMI 1.3, 1080p24f and a quick start option that will take less then a decade for you to get your Blu-ray lovin. Blu-ray.com An interesting feature is a Quick Start option which will have the disc playing in a matter of seconds, very […]

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CableCard: Velocity Micro Does It Right

With HP off and on with their CableCard support, it seems as though Velocity Micro is the only outfit in town willing to get it right. Although I don’t agree with their case choice, they are now offering a $1600 single CC tuner system. Its not ideal, but it does come with a couple of gigs of ram and a […]

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Cable firms to raise set-top box rates

I didn’t see this one coming, lol. Cable companies, in an effort to make even less friends, have announced this which I hope will simply encourage more people to use cable cards, which in turn will hopefully make the process a little more user-friendly. Or just stick it to the cable companies and get satellite. Yahoo News They say the […]

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SAMSUNG LN-T4061F 40″ 1080P HIGH DEFINITION LCD TV

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$1500 is a lot for a 40" LCD, but at 1080p, and the slickness of Samsung, this thing is definitely drool-worthy. TweakNews That brings the amount of HDMI connections to three which should cover anyone’s HD home theater system needs. As you can see, you have your standard VIVO connections, your PC hookups along with your legacy standard coaxial cable […]

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Using an Xbox360 HD DVD Addon on a PC

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Nice to see an article like this, since the player is fairly affordable, and not a bad way to add HD-DVD to your HTPC. Of course, it does have the requirement of HDCP, so you Vista users will be somewhat limited depending on your video card…but I just checked prices, and you can pickup an HDCP-compliant card for not too […]

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