We saw the news last week about that ban on large TV’s being sold in California be removed, but a lot of people fail to take into consideration power issues when deciding on a TV. Just as an example, I had a small 20" LCD but it has an integrated DVD player, which consumes 30 watts! Just imagine what your […]
Read moreImpractical, but awesome To get rid of the mess of wires from his many videogame consoles, PopSci reader Brian De Vitis decided to repurpose his R2-D2-shaped cooler. The engineering student modified its legs and repainted it to look more realistic. Then he stacked the motherboards from the eight consoles on shelves inside, added a sound system, and rearranged the […]
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Here’s a quick and dirty "review" of the S1Digital P500 Media Center. In fairness, it really is more of an overview than an intense review, but it gives you a good overview of what’s included. S1Digital has built a great reputation for themselves and looks like it’s continuing on with this one. Electronic House The thing is dead quiet. […]
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I honestly don’t recall hearing about their first generation products, but apparrantly they sold well enough to support a version 2.0. From what I can tell, it’s basically an LCD TV with a PC built inside of it. Pretty cool idea and I’d be curious to see some reviews of it, but I doubt I’m the only one that saw […]
Read moreSome good tidbits for newbies and experts the like. Sometimes it’s the most obvious things we forget about. I know I’ve been guilty of a few of these in the past. Electronic House Buying the least expensive gear and finding out it doesn’t have the features you need, like discrete control codes (on and off, for example) or enough inputs […]
Read moreHere’s some actual real world testing of the upcoming 1.19 ATI Firmware which brings with it support for Copy Freely. Apparantly this works like a charm with Verizon FiOS but could the claims against Time Warner be true? A little birdie told me that most of the Comcast stuff is respecting copy freely just like Verizon…so hopefully Time Warner joins […]
Read moreHave you been eager for bitstreaming your blu-ray discs in your HTPC but can’t see yourself spending several hundred dollars on a sound card to do it? Well, you’re in luck (at least come November) as Anandtech has a preview of the next generation of ATI Graphics cards which will include Bitstreaming the HD formats, along with a variety of […]
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In the market for an affordable 42" television? Then you are probably considering Best Buy’s Insignia brand of LCD’s, which apparantly have improved in their overall quality and performance. Of course do your research on others available, but this model looks like a very solid display at a Sub-$800 price. i4u A feature called DCM Plus leverages the L42X’s […]
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No real surprise here but it’s good to see Intel continuing to innovate on the video chip side of things. This obviously has some non-HTPC’s in mind, but I can see the technology being spread across all lines of their products. Engadget Intel’s making a big TV push here at IDF, and a lot of it centers around the […]
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Damian from MediaSmartServer.net got his grubby hands on one of the first C-200’s out there and took it for a test drive. Not surprisingly, the thing is pretty awesome, but the display is pretty useless. A tidbit he shares, the C-200 CAN bitstream high definition audio! Pretty impressive. MediaSmartServer This is probably one of the first things people ask […]
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