Engadget has a nice compairion of TiVo Premiere versus Windows 7 Media Center. It makes a pretty compelling case for WMC if you’re PC savvy. Although TiVo and ReplayTV were the first DVRs on the market, Microsoft’s software actually powered the DISHPlayer Satellite DVR in late 1999. So here we are over 10 years later and while TiVo and Microsoft […]
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Christmas came early this year, at least for those of us eagerly awaiting Ceton’s once fabled InfiniTV 4 Quad CableCARD Tuner. The Ceton InfiniTV 4 arrived at my home yesterday (Wednesday, August 4th) a little after lunch. I knew it was coming so I planned ahead and decided to head home for a late lunch. My plan was to take […]
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OK, my home is not the wild but one of the first pre-order units have arrived. Many thanks to Ceton for providing an early pre-order unit. Check back tomorrow for the full review.
Read moreSageTV’s *.13 rev of the V7 beta just arrived. They fixed a whole bunch of issues and adding a few new features. Go get it! New features: -Category view in the Video Browser, with options to edit categories and also parental ratings for imported videos -Merged SageTVTranscoder with latest public version; should resolve many transcoding issues; we also added […]
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8/10 UPDATE: The unit arrived this morning! Absolutely beautiful. Haven’t had a chance to play with it much yet, but thought I would share the picture! A bit of a history lesson–I have been putting off buying a new HDTV for quite some time. When I first moved to the bay area about 4-5 years ago, I bought a used […]
Read moreComing in at $350 and $699 I’m not sure that either player really warrants the cash outlay unless you really need discrete analog outs. To 3D or not to 3D, that is the question. Sorry to go Shakespeare on you, but I’m skeptical as to whether 3D is the next big thing on the horizon. Samsung is one of […]
Read moreLots of good releases this week including some classics being released such as Breakfast Club and Fargo. Splinter was a fun gruesome fest, as was the classic Kalifornia. Honestly wasn’t too big a fan of Bull Durham, but there are out there so it’s out on BD now as well. Oh and Charlie’s Angels, how could I have missed that. […]
Read moreWhile I love ShowAnalyzer, I have to admit being a little intimidated by all of the settings with obtuse names available for creating custom scanning profiles. Now thanks to Ben, we can all tune like pros. If you you’ve ever used any automatic commercial skipping technolog you know that it isn’t 100 percent accurate. We remember our old ReplayTV […]
Read moreI hope that they will produce a version that is compatible here in the USA. Currently the do not have the proper tuner. I have created a poll on the AC Ryan to help AC Ryan get a feel for the amount of interest here in the USA. Please take a moment and vote. http://www.acryan.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=81&t=7070 It is with great […]
Read moreComing to a Redbox [hopefully] near you! It’s really no surprise that Redbox is going nationwide with its $1.50 Blu-ray rentals, at every step along the way of its Hollwood dealmaking, the company has pointed out its aim towards procuring a supply of high definition movies, and now the day is finally here. The high definition disc packing kiosks currently […]
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