Hauppauge, MaxLinear to produce TV tuners for netbooks

Well, if you’ve had the desire to convert that netbook into an HTPC, you’re in luck now! Hauppauge is working on a tuner that would be specifically designed for this usage…because everyone loves watching TV on a 10" screen using a very underpowered system. Have to wonder how much multi-tasking will be possible… Liliputing Semiconductor company MaxLinear is teaming up […]

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Sonos CR200 review

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There was quite a lot of press when this fancy new Sonos remote was announced, so it’s good to see not very long pass before the actual unit is released into the wild. The guys at Engadget got their hands on one for review and put it up to the test–it’s a nice remote, but current Sonos users can probably […]

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Epix lands first carriage deal

If you’re like me and have no idea what Epix is, apparantly it’s a premium TV service that offers who knows what content. Apparantly it has enough content to make it appealing to Verizon’s FiOS which continues making its services the most attractive out there–if you can get it. Hollywood Reporter The Wall Street Journal had reported early Tuesday that […]

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Windows Home Server Power Pack 3 Review

Power Pack 3 for Windows Home Server is promised to bridge the gap even tighter between your Media Center systems and your Windows Home Server. It has a number of features for doing so, and in addition to that it also brings full support for Windows 7. The Digital Media Zone The other big part of Power Pack 3 as […]

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Audioholics $750 Receiver Comparison Guide

Another good comparison guide for receivers from Audioholics.  I’m mad they don’t have my favorite brand in there, Onkyo, but they don’ t have any new receivers at this price point.   There are surprising variations even among the most notable and well established groups. While we expected Denon and Yamaha to be nearly identical, they most certainly were not. […]

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7 Tips to Downsizing Your Electronics

I know this definitely affects myself with my teeny tiny apartment…hopefully you people in large houses don’t have to worry about such things as small spaces for your theater. 🙂 Electronic House How many drawers are you currently using to store your CDs and DVDs? You can clear that space completely by storing your media digitally on the hard drive […]

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Is the Coraline Blu-ray the best ever video presentation?

UltimateAVmag.com goes out on a limb to declare Coraline on Blu-ray the best video presentation in 2009, and perhaps even ever.  They go on to rate both the video and audio presentations on the disk a perfect 10.  Could this be your next demo disk?  To make it even sweeter, it is family friendly demo material.   Every intricate feature […]

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Lian Li PC-V351 – HTPC Chassis

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Here’s a link to a review from a german site on a new Lian Li HTPC-case, which brings back the good old cube case idea, which was really popular about 5 years ago. It actually looks pretty decent next to the stereo receiver IMO. Hopefully the google translator did a good job here. HT4u.net Nevertheless, it is at this point […]

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