Not a bad article which covers several aspects of planning a HTPC install. It has been over three and a half years since the HTPC has gone mainstream. Today, the HTPC front-end is fairly well established, with a slick interface and a compact, living-room-friendly form factor, and it’s reliable enough that you rarely notice it’s there. Toss in working HDMI for […]
Read moreChris Morley has a public service announcement regarding CableCards and the MSI DIVA platform. In short, it won’t work with CableCards unless you are an OEM. he MSI motherboard has the table built in for the AMD/MS OEM partners to put in their CableLabs information to enable playback of digital cable content including encrypted QAM content. However, this table […]
Read moreIf you were on the fence about purchasing AnyDVD for your Blu-ray ripping needs, you will want to get your pruchase in before the end of the year. Starting in 2009 Slysoft will be moving to a yearly subscription fee rather then unlimited lifetime upgrades. If you purchase now, you can still qualify for lifetime upgrades. Not only that, they […]
Read moreTI decided to do some spoof videos to show what life would be like without engineers in the world and why you should thank them when you see them. I think the videos are worth looking at for a second. Thank an Engineer For making our lives safer, more productive and fun [Texas Instruments]
Read moreThis isn’t really HTPC related but most of you are probably familiar with Guitar Hero. I wanted to post this because it was just really cool. Watch the video and be amazed. Combine the popular video game Guitar Hero with high-speed industrial hardware and a real-time OS and what do you get? An entertaining demonstration of machine vision capabilities […]
Read moreYou’ve heard news recently about 3DTV development. Now’s your chance to influence the industry. Take this survey and have an input. As incentive, they’re giving out a bunch of prizes as well. As exciting as this is, there has been very little input from experienced S-3D and traditional 2D gamers about this technology, and MTBS believes it is the […]
Read moreOverclockers club has a prebuilt HTPC from Asus for review if you don’t want to build your own. While they still run it through your standard system benchmarks, which aren’t really applicable for HTPCs, they atleast test out video playback. Take a gander. Asus, one of the world’s largest consumer computer hardware manufacturer, which also makes their own, custom designs, […]
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The HD 100, SageTV’s previous generation of extenders, was widely regarded as one of the best in the industry for commercial PVR programs. The HD Theater is the next generation extender from SageTV improves upon the old one in a few areas. Same $200 price point Advanced codec support (H.264 up to 1080p). No mention of container support. Let me […]
Read moreCome and get your fresh hot Media Portal release. Get it while its hot.. Come and get it. This release was 100% bug fixes. Its a snoarer of a release but should stabilize things before the final release hits before Christmas. What can the community do? We need your help to find and fix still existing issues in MediaPortal […]
Read moreSupport is still preliminary and rather buggy but if you have the hardware requirements and don’t mind using code that is not yet released, Mythtv can use the new Nvidia accelleration that was recently released. That’s one big advantage of open source applications. Quick turn around times for new features. With NVIDIA providing a header file in the driver […]
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