It was about 7:30 pm last night, give or take a couple of hours, and I was hard at work attempting to wrap my feeble mind around the shroud of mystery that surrounds home automation. Deep in its bowels I toiled for well over 10 minutes while I read the manual of the Intermatic Master Controller and how to assign […]
Read moreMSI is getting in on the HTPC/HDMI action. It’s not a silent card and so it has a small fan, which is hopefully nice and quiet. MSI’s R4600 HDMI’s entire series has native HDMI output to allow direct connection of your pc with hi-def TVs, monitors and projectors. Supporting full HD at a resolution of 1920×1080, this card presents […]
Read moreWhile these cases are too tall for my own taste, many people must like them, since there are a lot of similarly "large" HTPC cases. However, what immediately stole my attention was the 4 bay, hot swap, RAID cage on the front of the PC-C34F. Very interesting design choice. I’m wondering about cooling, vibration, and overall noise now. The […]
Read moreI for one have been waiting for this! Even tho I’m using a IR-BT adapter that an avsforum member made for the PS3 in the home theater, so my Harmony 1000 could control the PS3 too. However, it can’t turn on the PS3 when I hit Watch Movies (have to push the PS3 on/off button), nor it will turn it […]
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BoxeeTV is a new home theater type software, but they have gone a different route in the ways they began distributing. They launched with an initial alpha version for Linux, Apple, and AppleTV’s, and shunned us Windows users. That didn’t bother me as I wanted to get my hands on it, until I remembered how terrible I was with Linux. […]
Read moreIf you’re in the market for a new HTPC case, techspot did a roundup of some nice ones. One of the greatest challenges a HTPC faces is fitting in with the rest of your living room equipment, and this burden is placed at large on the case. Besides good looks, the case must operate at a reasonable volume and […]
Read moreAmazingly useful article if you’re considering an SSD as an OS drive for any application. I spent about three weeks working on my review of Intel’s X25-M SSD. Most of that was research and writing and re-writing to not only review the product but also to talk about the rest of the SSDs in the marketplace and their deficiencies. […]
Read moreI would like to take a minute to thank CyberEstore.com. Their continued support allows us to keep this website operational and deliver the best damn news and commentary the web has to offer. Artistic license aside, CyberEstore has a great selection of HTPC related goods including cases and tuner cards. Not only that they carry a wide range of other […]
Read moreI love these types of articles, and it’s always interesting to see how other websites approach this ever popular HTPC biz we so love. I will examine each of these in more detail in the following pages. You may be somewhat surprised to see the motherboard so low on the list. Most of the time you’ll see that as […]
Read moreNot sure how much more I really need to say, a fairly amusing list depending on where in the "geek" spectrum you fall. I could *only* identify with 5 of the 10 listed…wonder how the rest of you score 😛 It’s tough enough to find decent geeky shows on TV these days; think of how much worse it would […]
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