Display Calibration Poll Results Last week, we polled MissingRemote readers regarding the calibration status of their displays and here are the results. While the majority of you have calibrated your displays to some degree or another, roughly 25% have not and approximately 25% of you have either calibrated by viewing content or using settings found online. Almost 40% of you […]
Read moreGood list of films this week. Apocalypse Now comes out with it’s 154th release (j/k), but it doesn’t make it any less of a great movie as it’s been all these years. Psycho gets itself an anniversary collector edition as well, and then some Harry Potter releases on Blu-ray as well. MissingRemote’s Pick of the Week Predators ** So […]
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Following Pioneer’s exit from the plasma display panel (PDP) market Panasonic moved from also-ran to market leader by delivering the right mix of performance and value to the full range of plasma buyers. Ultimately the Pioneer Kuro failed to find the right balance between features and a price that enough buyers were willing or able to pay, so while […]
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Interesting extender media player here, pretty sure it’s the first supporting HDMI 1.4. Will be interesting to see this in action when it finally comes out…price tag of $230 might scare some off though. WD TV Live Hub Media Center is a high-definition network media player with a 2.5” HDD built-in and with Gig-Ethernet functionality that is designed to satisfy […]
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Lately I have started playing games on my Home Theater PC. Sitting on my couch and playing video games on my 42" tv is absolutely great. It’s comfortable, the screen’s big, I can kick my feet up. All around excellent. To play games I use a Logitech Rumblepad 2 for playing the game and a Logitech diNovo Mini for communicating […]
Read moreHere’s a good writeup from the FCC’s meeting today, and good news that there’s still desire to improve (versus abandoning) CableCARD. Those include ensuring that operators support accessing switched digital video by retail devices, prohibiting box price discrimination, requiring the option of consumer self-installation of the cards, giving consumers information on the cost of retail vs. leased boxes, making it […]
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Here’s the roundup of podcasts in the past week…Enjoy! This week’s podcast gets started with some of the best comments left after the last episode, before we delve into our (very different) opinions of the initial Google TV efforts from Logitech and Sony. After that, Cisco tries to get into HDTV-based videoconferencing and the Windows Phone 7 launch brings some […]
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Yesterday I posted a mod from a Nintendo 64 chassis being used for an HTPC. Well in browsing over the AVSForum I saw this super clean mod from Gmanhdtv where he uses a not-so-old Sony Blu-ray player and mods an HTPC into it, while still utilizing the original Blu-ray drive itself! Great work! I have always liked the clean […]
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SageTV V7 Installation Guide If you are new to SageTV getting it installed and everything like ISO playback and HD audio/video playback working can be bit of a challenge; so when I needed to do a V7 install a few days ago I decided to document the process to hopefully make it easier for everyone to get the server […]
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