Year: 2009

For those trying to keep up with todays tuners, here’s a USB offering from ASUS that does ATSC and QAM.   At $50-$60, it’s at about the same price as its competition. I also liked the ArcSoft TotalMedia software that came with the tuner. However, there’s a wealth of free and open source software available for use as well as […]

Always sad to see a major chain fail, especially one that employs over 30,000 people.  Still this may be a chance to score some deals on HT equipment.  I’ll be on the lookout for a medium sized flatpanel for the bedroom.   Liquidation sales begin as early as Saturday, January 17, 2009, and will last as long as it takes […]

Not to get everyone’s hopes up again, but has anyone else seen this?   Aw, snap! Just over a month after DirecTV went and killed its totally promising HDPC-20 tuner, in flies this. DISH Network is apparently gearing up to unveil some sort of HD-capable DISH-to-Windows Media Center liaison, with current test setups involving a modified ViP 211K receiver attached […]

If you’re like me, you’ve upgraded the hard drive in your HTPC a few times and now have some spares laying around with no way to connect them.  In that case, you need to get yourself an external enclosure.  Today Club Overclocker is reviewing a new offering from Vantec.   Vantec shows once again that they build some pretty awesome […]

Are you wondering if W7CM will work on a Atom powered netbook? James puts it through a few tests to see.     My next task was to test out the new music wall and try to play some music. This is where it turned south. Apparently, the music wall uses a lot of resources. When I first started playing […]

For those of you that want to test out the Windows 7 Beta but still want to use Vista or XP as well, this is a nice, easy to follow guide for setting up a Multi-Boot Windows system.  I haven’t tested it (yet) myself and there are a couple of commands that may look intimidating, but but follow the guide […]