If you can’t put in a 5.1/7.1 surround system a soundbar is a great way to make a big step up from the TV’s speakers without breaking the bank or pulling wire. To test the soundbar state of the art and explore the breadth of offerings, we rounded up four models. Customarily in such comparisons, we pit similar products […]
Read moreInteresting development in the Media Browser world as they’ve gone the route of MyMovies–core functionality remaining 100% intact and free, but any new features being "unlocked" via a key only to those donators. No word on what the minimum donation to receive a key is, but some nice additions well worth supporting the developer. MB Trailers – a replacement for […]
Read moreHuman Target almost made my pick of the week, mainly because it was the MissingRemote community which turned me on to it after a bad first experience, and now it’s one of my regular shows. Robin Hood is the newest big release coming out, but having not seen it and being iffy on its worthiness, I had to go with […]
Read moreThere is a lot to like in Panasonic’s plasma line-up this year. For those not interested in 3D, but want Netflix the G series is an affordable way to get an excellent TV. The 50-inch TC-P50G25 is a THX-certified, 1080p plasma TV: It features Panasonic’s 600Hz Sub-field Drive to improve motion resolution, as well as the new Infinite Black […]
Read moreThe new Vision 3D HTPC series was built for delivering amazing 3D game, movie entertainments as well as daily office jobs. Its sleek, stylish look doesn’t means it has to sacrifice function. Instead, it’s remarkably smart. ASRock Vision 3D is a multi-tasking system which brings the unparalleled performance to the real world! Plus, it’s also the first HTPC supporting […]
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If Ferrari stopped manufacturing sports cars, would that mean that cars in general are dead? That’s the question posed to me today as I learned from confirmed sources that Niveus Media–the creators of arguably the most luxurious high end media center PC’s you could imagine–has announced to their dealers that they will be discontinuing manufacturing of all of their consumer […]
Read moreSorry for the day late on this, but that just means more podcasts for you all! Lots of good variety this week in our roundup of podcasts, so enjoy! Are you ready for football? If the North American variant is not to your liking, you’ll probably want to skip ahead because between true 5.1 finally arriving on Monday night, Sunday […]
Read morePerspective is an interesting thing. I use ProMonitor 1000s across the front of my home theater so it’s easy for me to agree with the reviewer’s overall conclusion (that they sound really good), but I wouldn’t classify anything Definitive Technology makes as "budget". The first thing that impressed me was how much they reminded me of the much larger […]
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The public beta of Adobe Flash Player "Square" is now available for download. For you Linux users the beta was available for download some time ago but was later removed. I’m not a fan of Flash based websites but I’m a huge x86-64 fan boy so I couldn’t resist installing. So far seems to work very well on Windows and Linux […]
Read moreJust over two weeks after beta1, the next pre-release version of Dharma is ready for testing. [XBMC Dharma Beta 2]
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