Here’s a review from HDGuru on a LG Smart TV device designed to upgrade your television to a “smart” tv. The guru seems to love the picture quality and only notes the price as a big caveat, but a glance over at reviews on Amazon are much less flattering. You get the expected HDMI output, plus optical for those inclined […]
Read moreHere’s a bummer. Replay TV has finally killed their EPG download. I was an early adoptor and had given my old units to my dad and mother-in-law. It was pre-announced some time ago, but today my dad complained. It’s not supposed to go off until the 31st, but I guess if you have everything up to that date, it must be […]
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SecondRun.tv received an update over the weekend, bringing one of the more ambitious Windows Media Center plugins in recent memory up to version 2.6. The new features enhance the Movie and TV Show Views that were added with the 2.5 release and focus on improving and expanding the search funtionality built into SecondRun.tv. The most obvious change is the new optional […]
Read moreThis is one of the first reviews I’ve seen of the brand new Roku 2 unit that offers a fairly nice supply of features starting at $60. We reviewed the original Roku XDS previously and liked it. Roku 2 hardware is by far the most elegant they’ve ever produced… and how far its appearance has evolved from off-the-shelf components and […]
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At the end of May, Intel introduced new Sandy Bridge architecture Pentium-branded chips that offer great performance for HTPCs on a budget. Things are about to get even cheaper with three new 35W T-branded parts (Pentium G530T, Pentium G630T and Core i3-2120T) . The rest of the non-T parts coming are Pentium G630, Pentium G860, Core i3-2125 (with HD3000 graphics), […]
Read moreFor our MythTV users (I’ve got a system running myself) check out this three part blog on adding Ceton InfiniTV support to your MythTV 0.24 system courtesy of developer Ron Frazier. With the pending release of the SiliconDust HD Homerun Prime, I was getting pretty excited about getting a cablecard tuner for MythTV. However, then something wonderful happened…Ceton decided to drop the […]
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We have been providing a Q&A thread at Missing Remote to help answer questions regarding the Hauppauge Colossus. Now that the Colossus has been out for several months, we think it’s a good time to provide a review. For those unfamiliar with the Hauppauge Colossus, it is an HD-capable video capture device that can be used to capture all types […]
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When the orginal Mac Mini was announced back in 2005, it immediately became my model of what an HTPC should look like. I’ve completed two HTPC upgrades since then, and each time I have tried my darndest to justify the extra expense to go with a Mac Mini instead of my usual homebrew. Not as fun, but way sexy. This year’s models […]
Read moreA bit of a teaser subject line, but Computer World has an interesting article comparing the cost of DRAM to NAND. Seeing that MLC NAND has crossed the .50/GB barrier, how much longer till we see a 1TB SSD for $100. Anyone out there brave enough to predict a date? Mike: Could make for a good MissingRemote contest!
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In the past year several companies have avoided the “media player” conversation instead opting to focus their efforts on wirelessly streaming their HDMI signal from their laptop directly to their HD televsisions. What Veebeam and Brite-View have done well, each with their own pros and cons, is now where Warpia is attempting to compete with their StreamHD SWP120A unit. Leveraging […]
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