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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When I initially saw the announcement from Elgato that they have released the HDHomeRun under their own brand name I was immediately curious as to what this was all about. After all, the SiliconDust HDHomeRun has been one of the most popular tuners for home theater PC (HTPC) users since 2006. What Elgato is offering is the 3rd revision to […]
Read moreWe reviewed one of the first ASRock Core systems, the ION 330 which was based on the Ion platform and was not the fastest system in the world. It’s great to see ASRock stay behind the product and continue to improve it, this time up with Intel’s Sandy Bridge platform. The ASRock Core HT HTPC is a fantastic system which […]
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We know by our recent poll that a lot of you readers are Blu-ray ripping fiends. Well, what do you do when you are presented with titles such as Lord of the Rings Extended Edition which are split into two Blu-ray discs per movie? Damian (aka dbone1026) over at MediaSmartServer.net has shared his adventure and documented his method for achieving […]
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If you’ve been eyeing the dual-sided Boxee Box remote control for HTPC use, D-link is bringing the remote plus an RF USB dongle to market for $50. This plus Boxee’s promise of a client software update in the near future hopefully means the PC platform will be on a roll again instead of the recent stagnation that has occurred. Boxee […]
Read moreIf you remember the days of TweakMC back in the Vista Media Center era you will remember it was a great utility for customizing Media Center. Enabling the DVD Library which was disabled by default. Fixing overscan issues, you name it, TweakMC did it. A member over at the Windows Experts Community (formerly The Green Button) has found the original […]
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