If 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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Introducing TunerSalad! (aka I need more tuners…) Now that the Ceton InfiniTV 4 has been released, are four CableCARD tuners just not enough? The My Channel Logos (MCL) Development Team has answered your prayers (well complaints). Before showing off how easy the MCL Development Team has made it, let me emphasize three things: TunerSalad is only for personal, non-commercial use. […]
Read moreWith the evolution of some power supplies being able to be near silent, I figured we would not see any new completely fanless PSU’s coming out. I was wrong. Seasonic follows the likes of Antec and FSP which discontinued theirs and has released a completely fanless PSU for your system. As always, make sure your system has adequate cooling for […]
Read moreGotta love a new technology like 3D, which lets manufacturers play around some with specs and offer lots of firsts…with lots of caveats. This one is particularly glaring considering just the overall lack of 3D content versus how many Blu-rays in 1080p you probably own. But still….less than $1k for 3D, not awful. The downside is that you’re looking at […]
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