Do you remember when we posted about Hauppauge’s Digital Cable Tuner (DCT) product back in January? We found out that it was a dual-tuner USB model and speculated that the price would come in around $150. Well, it turns out we were off a little. Hauppauge has posted about its soon-to-be released DCT named WinTV-DCR-2650 on their Facebook page. The main […]
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It was pretty hard not to see this coming. Netflix has today announced that the $10 per month one out at-a-time DVD rental plus streaming option will no longer be available. The new plans are A) $8 per month for one DVD at-a-time, B) $8 for unlimited streaming and C) Combine both A and B for $16 per month. So […]
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Today, the folks over at Remote Potato have released their latest application: Remote Potato HD for the iPad. Last night, I was given the chance to do an early review of the latest product. For over a year now, I have been using Remote Potato to do remote scheduling and managing of my series recordings. Prior to the release of Remote […]
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Not that long ago it was a significant challenge to build a small and quiet home theater PC (HTPC). Mini-ITX was an option, but case selection was limited and more importantly the form factor was held back by the lack of decent integrated video performance and the power/heat dissipation requirements of the processor (CPU) and graphics (GPU). With both of […]
Read moreI have to agree with most of what Brent says in his editorial on what Google hopes to do with SageTV – especially the points on AllVid. Whatever they have in store for us, I’m looking forward to reviewing it 🙂 It’s been three weeks since Google gobbled up the tiny Home Theater PC company, SageTV. The tech blogs, mainstream […]
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Have you tried to hide all of your component when you mount your TV to the wall but how will you get IR signal to all the hidden equipment? Well now you have another option from a company called Sewell. They use an unused CEC channel on the HDMI cable to send the IR signal through the cable you are […]
Read moreDo you love Russel Brand so much and wish there was a movie where basically he just plays himself for a full 90 minutes? Then you’re in luck, as “Arthur” is just that, where he plays a rich heir to a lot of money who falls in love with some poor girl. If you only kind of enjoy Brand or […]
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As the cellular phone has continued to improve its feature offerings, so too have companies attempted to find a home for that product within the connected home theater. Over the years we have seen universal remotes, video docking stations and a number of other devices which aim to capitalize on the popularity of those mobile devices. XtremeMac sure is hoping […]
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A lot of us at Missing Remote are fond of the Microsoft Security Essentials anti-virus software. Not only is it free, it does its job without chewing up unnecessary resources and hides in the background until it is needed. In the HTPC environment, we can decrease the impact to the system and disk performance even more by defining a few […]
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Unless you closely follow news announcements you probably have never heard of Viako, but they’re a company in Korea who are aggressively taking on the HTPC market. Although no current US distribution, the products themselves look very attractive, so it’s good to hear that they can actually perform as well. The package contents on the otherhand are anything but a […]
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