Omaura and MissingRemote.com have teamed up to give away over a $1000 in cases to anyone anywhere in the world (see rules for details) . All you have to do is WOW the judges with an entry describing how winning an Omaura case will change your life. Easy right? Text? Video? Artistic dancing while reciting poetry? All are valid entries! […]
Read moreFinally a cable box my parents might actually be able to use. Yahoo! News After more than two years of promises and delays, Comcast Corp. has finally begun the commercial rollout of its first cable set-top boxes that run TiVo’s digital video recording technology.
Read moreArs Technica has an article on the New Harry Potter DVD also having the movie encoded for your computer and portable devices. This could help make movie libraries on PCs legit. ArsTechnica At the DVD Forum conference in Universal City, CA, Warner Home Video announced that it will release the new Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix DVD […]
Read morePC games have been stagnant outside of WOW. For the first time in a long time, there is a whole slew of games that interest me. FloppyHead The line-up of games just released or to be released over the next month is impressive. Release after release of high profile titles for the PC is slated that exceed anything on the […]
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This week up, Ian’s got Nial Ginsbourg (pronounced like the river Nile ) up for interview. If you’ve ever seen the "BigScreen" applications and wondered in amazement how he makes such cool MCML apps….well, keep wondering. But at least you can listen to the aussie speak a little about the development world. Show Times: 00:50 Welcome to the show 01:38 […]
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Antec has been known for years as being a great company to provide quality cases and power supplies, which are as great for gamers as they are quiet for Media Center users. They have come to embrace the Home Theater PC audience slowly, but have developed a product line dubbed "Veris ," which they’ve tied together their current HTPC […]
Read moreAnybody want to check this out? Ehomeupgrade Who says you can’t watch Joost on your TV? Fishtank, a member of The Green Button community, claims to have developed a working plugin that pulls Joost IPTV content into Media Center for viewing (via CL).
Read moreVia Chris Lanier, a new HDHomeRun will be making its way to market soon. This time they have support planned for DVB-T and DVB-C. The competition will be a little stiffer this time around with a pretty large market of DVB-T cards already on the market. Brent Evans According to Nick at SiliconDust, MCE & MythTV support have been confirmed […]
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First off, let me thank Omaura for sponsoring this contest. They are new to the HTPC chassis world, but they are starting off with a bang by designing some of the nicest cases we have seen yet. If you are planning a HTPC build in the near future, I would encourage you to check these cases out. Head on over […]
Read moreThe time may have been closer to a dark and stormy morning with a few rain drops here and there but it didn’t lend itself to the type of dramatic weather and timing this particular story required. A doorbell rang out disturbing this other wise toddler quiet household. We weren’t expecting anyone. Puzzled, I opened the door and to my […]
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