Paul Thurrott takes a look back at Windows XP Media Center. Looks at the highs and lows of Windows Media Center and what all the different updates brought and where we are today. This retrospective focuses on the XP versions of Windows Media Center as well as related products of that era, including Media Center Extenders and Portable Media Center. […]
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Often a good wireless keyboard/mouse all-in-one separates a good home theater PC (HTPC) experience from frustration. Unsung when functioning properly and abused otherwise, it is critical to select a device with good range and a feature set that matches the expected use–which if it includes anything more than casual typing a larger keyboard is the way to go. With up […]
Read moreIn the last podcast I mentioned that I’d heard some talk that Intel was working on a fix for the UAC work around requirement for better refresh rate precision with Sandy Bridge GPUs, but hadn’t figured out how to reproduce it yet… Well I found a semi-public driver that might just be the key. Taking a look at the screenshots […]
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I recently attended a conference where one of the more exciting sessions I sat in on was a demonstration of the Kinect for Windows SDK. The applications being discussed in this demo were in no way Windows Media Center related, but it did occur to me at one point that would be a neat use for Kinect. Evidently I was not the […]
Read moreBest Buy’s Insignia brand televisions are probably not on the top of many Missing Remote readers’ wishlists, but Zatz Not Funny! has caught wind of at least one model that might bear keeping an eye on. The Insignia cTV is due to launch at the end of July. The television’s distinguishing characteristic is that it will be the first television to launch […]
Read moreJust did the drawing for the Fractal Designs Define R3 Chassis and the winner is RKWRIGHT! RKWright, you should have received an e-mail from me by now and have 48 hours to get in touch with me. Thanks to everyone who participated and good luck with our future contests!
Read moreNo word on price on this passively cooled Atom system, but the form factor looks pretty good. The D525 processor is not the most powerful in the world, but these guys like it in spite of it. The Arctic Cooling MC001-BD Entertainment Center is built around the Intel ATOM D525 processor, which is a dual core design which operates at […]
Read moreHDNation takes apart a Samsung 8000 HDTV and shows you every part and layer of the screen.. They try to tell you about every part as they are doing the dissection. Check it out The shipper dropped this Samsung 8000… we dissect it and show you what’s inside! HDNation
Read moreOnce upon a time I was a Netflix subscriber and life was glorious. Then we had some friends over for dinner and they commented that they were Blockbuster Total Access subscribers. At the time, Blockbuster was offering a similar DVD by mail program, but with the added benefit that you could return the mail delivered DVD to your local store and […]
Read moreI’m hoping most of you reading this are familiar with MissingRemote.com, we are a website that caters to most of the folks on AVS here, and we do blogs, reviews, news and the like. Thanks to our readers we have been growing lately and have the opportunity for someone who is interested in writing for the website. This is a […]
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