For those on the fence about extenders or stand-alone low power HTPCs the choice just got a lot easier with tuner sharing. One of the features that the Ceton InfiniTV4 was poised to offer was tuner sharing. This would allow you to have your InfiniTV4 in one HTPC and assign tuners to other HTPCs in your home. Unfortunately CableLabs […]
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MissingRemote.com has historically focused on the PC and media streamer segment of home theater devices – mostly because those connected, versatile devices are required to get the most out of your home theater – as CE manufactures move into our space by providing DLNA and content aggregation services in their products it is important for us to include them […]
Read moreThis appears to be a nice alternative for folks who aren’t too particular over the song selection or of FM quality sound. I can’t help but think that once someone hacks this device so that music can be stored on a PC or a portable device other than the one supplied that the lawyers will be out in force soon […]
Read moreIf Ontario does provide a low-power CPU that offers decent performance and actual graphics horsepower, we’ll finally have an Intel Atom and Nvidia Ion alternative in the mini-ITX market. This could make SFF PC market exceptionally interesting… [bit-tech.net]
Read moreIf you’ve been following our news surrounding Blockbuster for a while you won’t be surprised by their Q2 quarterly financial filings. While I don’t like to see any company have financial issues like this, for years Blockbuster has failed to evolve their business model and continued to charge ridiculous prices for movie rentals. It’s not a fair fight: Blockbuster […]
Read morePretty interesting Saturday graphical read on Netflix compared with Redbox if you’re interested. Click through to get the full graphic which is much larger than the below. [Hacking Netflix]
Read moreOur buddy Terry at WGS takes an in-depth look at the latest iPhone app from MyMovies that aims to give you full control of your movies from your iPhone. Pretty snazzy little app which Terry calls a must have for MyMovies users–I particularly like the ability to add movies via barcode scanning! But you can even view trailers. Would love […]
Read moreWhen it rains it pours! Here’s another method of enabling unlimited tuners in Windows 7 Media Center, specifically for you BigScreenEPG users. Since the cat’s now finally out of the bag – I’m happy to finally be able to reveal the ability to do this has actually been built into Big Screen EPG for probably 1.5 years now – […]
Read moreYou think if I begged Niall enough he’d make this for the iPhone?? 🙂 Currently via an emulator until the actual phone is in his hands, but still pretty slick. Similarly to the byRemote Silverlight 4 client for Desktops – all metadata displayed is downloaded as compressed/raw data from the byRemote server on your 7MC machine (so […]
Read moreI caught this video of the Artigo A1100 and am posting it specifically because I worked a bit with the unit. It’s not quite there for performance in HTPC usage as the gang at PC Perspective note, and the fan is louder than it should be, but it’s still a super low powered system you could use for other activities […]
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