Long time home theater information staple Audio Video Science Forum just suffered a massive setback today: AVS Forum Community: On the morning of August 11, AVS Forum suffered a major failure in the database and backup storage. As such, we have no choice but to recover from August 2nd. This represents tens of thousands of lost posts and new threads for […]
Read moreA couple of weeks ago, I went to an extender (Xbox 360) on one of my TVs in my house. My server is a Q6600/4GB/2600XT/3GB that should suffice for a multiple extender setup. Within the first few minutes of setting everything up I noticed that panning scenes would hiccup and stutter pretty badly. I left it as is for a […]
Read more64-bit users of Vista Media Center rejoice! The makers of the TVTonic plugin has heard your complaints and have released a 64-bit version of their plugin! Go ahead and get your download on and enjoy the Olympics! TV Tonic You asked for it, we listened. Our developers worked around the clock to make the 64-bit version of TVTonic available for […]
Read moreThe short and troubled history of Omaura has hit another road block. Chris Morley has officially let the world know that he has ended his relationship with his partners. More information can be found here on his blog post On the bright side, Chris is now free to do what he does best.. develop kick ass media center PCs. Chris […]
Read moreEngadget has gotten their hands on the Vista TV Pack and does a little walk through of the new features. For those of you running VMC this is a must read.
Read moreI have been meaning to post this for awhile now but I just never got around to it. babgvant was a pretty active developer for the Vista MCE community and has recently switched to Sage due to their active development cycle. The link I just gave will provide the full rundown. He has already began active development for SageTV with […]
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Today, Life With a Plugin is going down a slightly different path and we’re looking at a plugin for SageTV. In particular this plugin works only with the popular SageMC STV for SageTV. Since Mike looked at every Netflix plugin possible for VMC, I thought that I should take a quick look at installing and living with the Netflix addon […]
Read moreOur man with the microphone, the ever impressive Mike Garcen, will be on Ian Dixon’s famous podcast for a Live Q&A session. I dare anyone to ask if Mike records "Adult shows" ;). Mike does a great job and I encourage you to head on over and listen to this session. Ian Dixon’s announcement Just remember, I tought him everything […]
Read moreEveryone’s favorite trade group is at it again! This time they want the ability to shut down analog connections on set top boxes for specific events. The group mentions that this will give the security needed to allow providers to show movies before the appear on DVD. It certainly doesn’t take a genius to figure out that this clearly falls […]
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Ok, so I know that I just recently covered TVTonic , but then they went ahead and released probably the coolest and well implemented plugin in all of Media Center–Olympics!! If you haven’t already noticed, Vista Media Center (U.S. only, sorry international folks) now has under it’s Online Spotlight, a central icon for the Olympics. Clicking on that link entered […]
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