Most people in the HTPC community have a preferred media center application that handles 80% to 90% of the capabilities desired. Unfortunately, integrating an outside application to add functionality to your main front end and get to 100% seamless integration is not always easy. This is where automation tools can help. Automation tools are a class of software applications […]
Read moreBrent’s got some great information on the terms of service for the recently released Hulu Desktop application and what it might infer for the future. Apparantly as long as it’s for Personal Computers, you’re fine, but unfortunately that doesn’t leave much hope for extender users. So I’ll take that to mean we won’t see Hulu officially supported by Extenders […]
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UPDATE 8/20/2009: This guide has been confirmed working on Windows 7 and will place the shortcut to Hulu in your Extras Library. Click the Comments post for user tips on getting the icon on your start menu. If this article sounds familiar, it’s because I have previously written a similar article on integrating Boxee into Media Center . With […]
Read moreVery nice, works with the MCE remote and takes about two seconds to add to the VMC/Win7 menu using the Media Center Launcher Configurator utility. –Nino [Hulu]
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When Hulu started shutting down Boxee and other addins that utilized its service for a 10′ experience interface, people assumed one of the following–either the big content providers were uncomfortable blurring the line for television shows on their computers via a remote interface, or that they were working on something themselves and wanted the market to themselves. For better or […]
Read moreThis is a rather light review as it omits any reference to the noise factor of the author’s build. The author did mention his disdain for the included imon software but not a whole lot else. On the other hand there are lots of nice pictures of the case scattered around the article for folks to check out these pics […]
Read moreI know this has been available for ever from non MS plugins but now its available directly from Microsoft. Been dying to post this since I heard it was coming. Just had to wait for someone else to post it first. For Windows Vista users, more than 12,000 movie titles and television episodes are now available to be streamed […]
Read moreIt’s been a while since we’ve seen an Entertainment PC that offered a built-in audio amplifier (not sure why that never caught on?). In any case, Okoro Media Systems is announcing the availability of the OMS-AX100 that features the Intersil D2Audio 5-channel, 100 watt per channel audio amplifier so users can connect their home stereo speakers directly to the device. […]
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Halcyon (IPA: /ˈhælsiÉ™n/), a term that originates from the Greek myth of Alcyone, is used most often to mean golden or marked by peace and prosperity. I can’t really draw a relation between HTPC cases on Halcyon but the term golden just might fit with what they have in store for the HTPC chassis world. Founded by a guy with a […]
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The answer has been asked by many and presumed by even more, but ask the folks at Microsoft and they still stand strong around the Extender platform. With Linksys announcing their discontinuing of their Extender products, it leaves us guessing what’s to come, since Linksys was one of the original Extender partners for Microsoft. Are they simply discontinuing a 2 […]
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