Anandtech’s preview of ATI’s newest Radeon HD 4×00 series confirms what we’ve been hearing all along. The Radeon 4×00 series finally supports proper 8-channel LPCM over HDMI Bring on the mid-range Radeon HD 4650 version! AnandTech All of AMD’s Radeon HD graphics cards have shipped with their own audio codec, but the Radeon HD 4800 series of cards finally […]
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Ok ladies & gentlemen…as has been implied by our fearless leader, I have in my possession some fabulous extender devices: The D-Link DSM-330 Connected device, and the upcoming HP Media Center Connect Extender (c’mon, you didn’t think I would do a webinar without seeing the thing, did you?). So…with that being said, I’m taking each one through its paces, and […]
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Welcome to another edition of The Daily Button. Today’s edition is brought to you by Cyberestore.com. You can click on this banner at the top of the site, or simply click through this link . Cyberestore.com has the Fusion 7 Dual Express on sale for $139 dollars. The Fusion 7 is a dual QAM/ATSC tuner that allows for recording two […]
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The folks over at EngagetHD have a picture gallery up of the slick looking HP MediaSmart Connect extender. It can be a DLNA compliant extender for just about any source, or it can be an Media Center version 2 extender. It’s a sexy beast, and also subject of the upcoming webinar HP and Microsoft are holding. Our very own Missing […]
Read moreLowtech was a bit shy when he submitted this news story :). At any rate, this is a good comparo of budget CPUs from AMD and Intel. Legion Hardware Never before have we had both companies releasing such powerful processors at such bargain basement prices. While AMD may be loosing the performance war, they still have a number of very […]
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The goal of today’s tip of the day is very simple! All we want to accomplish is to rip a Blu-ray disc to your hard drive for playback with the program of your choice. One thing to note, media center programs such as VMC or SageTV will natively playback Blu-ray discs. A bit of a pain in the butt but […]
Read moreElectronic House When you bought your home theater you thought about screen resolution, refresh rates and HDMI ports. You discussed audio options with the A/V guy, networking options with your neighbor and furniture with your wife. What you likely didn’t plan for were ways to protect your new equipment from your children and your children from the equipment. Here are […]
Read moreSanta Clara, CA – June 16, 2008: Auzentech, Inc. (www.auzentech.com) reveals today its non-downsampling, HDMI 1.3-native, PCI express audio combo card: Auzen X-Fi HomeTheater 7.1. The Auzen X-Fi HomeTheater 7.1 accepts video from either an internal or external connection, mixes it with digital audio, and outputs the combined video and lossless multichannel audio via a single HDMI™ 1.3 port. Moreover, […]
Read moreIf you haven’t caught our upcoming site preview, take a gander at this thread . I release a few screen shots that should get you guys salivating :). Reply #2 and 16 have the screenshots. On the advertising front, we have a couple of new advertisers with us. The banner position is taken by Cyberestore.com , they have a nice […]
Read moreIt is amazing what can happen over the weekend. Get some yard work done, and of course have lots of time to evaluate and re-evaluate what direction I want to take for this whole digital home aspect. I am somewhat tied to the Microsoft platform because of my investment into CableCards. I would like to say QAM and OTA could […]
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