Microsoft has reduced the price of its most popular edition — Home Premium — to $119.99 for upgrades and $199.99 for full retail copies. Both price points are $40 less than Vista’s original Home Premium price. From June 26 to July 11, while supplies last Microsoft will offer special preorder pricing. It will be offering in the U.S. […]
Read moreOK, I know this is UK only, but this is a pretty ingenious idea. This TV maker is basically ignoring all the fancy UI and technology and just will record your shows onto an SD card, which then you can toss in anywhere. Of course, this is helped by the UK’s fairly well populated free-to-air television content, but still pretty […]
Read moreI’m not sure how I feel about the two largest MSO’s going in on something…you can almost rest assured consumers will be the least considered in this money making scheme. I doubt anyone is truly surprised though, it was only a matter of time before the big boys did something to compete with the buzz that is Hulu. Engadget Today, […]
Read moreBelkin is not the first to release powerline networking, but this still remains a highly sought after technology for many folks dissapointed with their wireless capabilities. I’d wait to see a review before jumping in on this one, but it’s good to see the technology has not yet died off completely. WeGotServed Because of its high Gigabit speeds and consistent […]
Read moreThe folks at Boxee have been hard at work. In addition to the very popular add-in challenge which just wrapped up, there are a ton of new features upcoming! A lot of you folks might be most interested in the public alpha (finally!) of the Windows version. I’ve been using it for a while now, and aside from the occasional […]
Read moreLuxa2 is an HTPC-specific division of Thermaltake that just started selling HTPC cases and accessories in the last few months. The LM200 that is reviewed here is one of their first offerings. I personally like the looks of it. Internally this case is pretty bare. I have not seen a case design so simple yet so effective. The horizontal […]
Read moreSilverstone has been in the HTPC case business for a long time now. Although this case isn’t exactly new, Benchmark Reviews took the LC10B-E for a spin. HTPC cases, as well as HTPCs themselves, can be customized to fulfill various roles. As I mentioned in the intro, there are some situations in which a small, book-size Atom ITX system […]
Read moreCouldn’t test it yet, but could be the solution to enable concurrent session under Vista SP2. [?]
Read moreVia and Arcsoft have teamed up to deliver a platform that will allow you to pass full bitrate LPCM audio to your AVR. This will allow any Dolby Digital TrueHD or DTS-HD Master track to be decoded by Arcosft TMT and then passed with no compression or down sampling to your audio reciever providing the exact same audio experience as […]
Read moreAfter getting EventGhost up and running to integrate PowerDVD 9 with SageTV, I took a look at Hulu Desktop. Integration was pretty straight forward as all of the keyboard commands were available in the software. I’m too lazy to write a plugin, so instead I pulled all the relevant XML from my save file, and you can just copy/paste it […]
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