We heard rumors of this new 1.4 specification to cause massive headaches all around. I see a lot of nice features here but nothing that makes me think the integration with HTPC’s is going to be any less of a disaster. Luckily these aren’t scheduled until mid-2010, so maybe by then we’ll finally have a rock solid 1.3 solution to […]
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Last week came news that the ever-so-popular SageTV Extender now supported Wireless-N for streaming HD content, and not a week later Brent has a review up of the entire process. Looks like a simple enough process and configuration. GeekTonic Thats it! Your HD Theater is now wireless (or wired if you want). This works in both Extender mode as […]
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Playing high definition movies within Media Center is tricky, and becomes even trickier if you are an extender user. Even if you get it working, then you lose certain things like fast forward and rewind. Luckily Ben makes use of some available free tools for Media Center, DVRMS Toolbox (from our friend Babgvant) and Yammm (from Mikinho) to almost automate […]
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One of the longest ongoing threads over at TheGreenButton has been with the desire from users to have Multi-Zone audio through their media center. There has never been a supported way in Media Center to do this, but Casatunes has been out for a while and has offered a solution. From the looks of this review, it definitely takes some […]
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Matt found this handy link over from Tom’s Hardware, where the user is attempting to achieve reliable wireless streaming of high definition blu-ray content in their house. Unfortunately the equipment they found is pretty hard to come by, but the good news is that results were quite positive. Tom’s Hardware Fortunately, the Thecus network storage unit includes a separate LAN […]
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