For those Canadians out there. macnn The tax may have a significant impact for online stores such as iTunes and Canada-based Puretracks, which will have to factor the amount both into future and past sales. The new tax would be retroactive to January 1st, 1996 and would effectively cover all sales and subscriptions from such services since their beginnings, which […]
Read moreLooking for a way to network your HTPC in the livingroom without running an ethernet cable? This may help you out. xtreme computing Today for review we have MSI’s homeplug implementation. That is a network device that uses your existing home power lines and sockets to create a fully functioning network.
Read moreThis won’t be out for another year or so, but obviously they must be concerned with the way PS3 has sped up the adoption of Blu-Ray. Smart House Microsoft, according to insiders at Toshiba owner of the HD DVD patents, claim that Microsoft is working on a brand new Xbox that will incorporate not only a new HD DVD drive […]
Read moreWhat do you guys think? Is it time for some forum changes or do you like it how it is. As always we appreciate your input :).
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Final results re. price/performance are on hold, pending the results of soon to be reviewed competing beamers. Projector Centeral Despite the modest looking improvements in the specifications, the HC6000 is clearly a better projector than the HC5000, which itself was an outstanding product. If you were looking at them side by side without knowing the specifications, you could not be […]
Read moreIt looks like the studios are not as entrenched in the format wars as we thought…. Floppyhead Due to licensing agreements, Blu-ray exclusive movies in North America are being sold as HD-DVDs in other parts of the world, and vice versa.
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Placeshifting is a term that has been around the Media Center enthusiast world for a while now. Although not perfected, it has certainly come along way in the past couple of years. Programs like SageTV and Orb, and hardware like Slingbox and Hava have allowed you to take your TV whereever you may roam. I am fortunate enough to take […]
Read moreGenerally the weekend affords us HTPC enthusiasts the opportunity to catch up on a few of life’s simpler pleasures like listening to music, maybe catching up on some recorded shows or catch up on the recent DVD releases. I never made it to the theatrical release of Transformers so I decided to go to my local RedBox and rent it. […]
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The best comment I can give to this is at least it’s cheap, but I still think the false publicity Ricavision has pushed through the Internet is enough to frustrate a lot of users and is really creating a bad reputation. So maybe the Sideshow remotes are having technical issues…ok, but then why not the universal + MCE remote?? Chris […]
Read moreMost HTPC users have always preferred silence over performance when it comes to choosing hard drives. But what if you could have that silence while at the same time using less power? The Tech Report gives us a fairly lengthy review of Western Digital’s new GP (GreenPower) hard drives. Tech Report The GreenPower is the quietest desktop drive we’ve ever […]
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