When home theater computers first came to market almost 10 years ago, the television tuners that were available were few and far between, all internal, and featured a whopping single tuner. How times have changed. Now, dual tuners are a given and hybrid tuners seek to accomplish the duty of one-size-fits-all for all customers. The Elgato EyeTV Hybrid is one […]
Read moreNow this is pretty cool if you watch a lot of streaming content and don’t want to hassle with finding a 10′ friendly version of each site. It’s good to see Apple sticking behind the AppleTV. Keep in mind, there are plenty of items such as the Brite-View or Veebeam that we’ve reviewed on MissingRemote that can do the exact […]
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Have you ever wanted to know more detailed information regarding your television tuners within Windows 7 Media Center? There is a lot of information that is stored within the operating system that is accessible via the 10′ Media Center user interface with just a few buttons. And it’s SUPER SIMPLE. While watching a channel press the following buttons on your […]
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If you’re looking for your next ultimate GPU that is silent, it appears there will be a plethora of choices in the market. Anandtech brings us pictures of several displayed at Computex. The graphics card pictured here is actually a single-slot ZOTAC model with an NVIDIA GT 430 that is completely passively cooled and of all things, PCI! I’m shocked […]
Read moreAfter weeks of 15 or 20, here we have over 50 new Blu-ray releases!! So I hope you’ve been saving your nickels! 🙂 There are a lot of good films to choose from here. If you are feeling silly there are some Adam Sandler classics like “Billy Madison” and “Happy Gilmore” which were great comedies, assuming you like Sandler. I […]
Read moreI love what Microsoft is doing building an entire ecosystem based around the Xbox360, I only wish that Media Center was included. Here are the new features Microsoft announced at E3, with voice-powered search and a variety of streaming sources outside the US. Microsoft confirmed the recent rumors and announced a new streaming TV implementation for the Xbox 360 today […]
Read moreVLC is an amazing media software that can playback virtually any file you can throw it’s way. I often defer to it when I’m having some subtitle difficulties. Some nice improvements with V.1.1.10 – Rewrite of the pulseaudio audio output module – Removal of the font-cache re-building on the freetype module on Windows – Numerous updates and fixes on the interface and […]
Read moreI hope other companies see things like this and can understand just why Netflix is so beloved by consumers. Not only do they provide an awesome service at a great price, but they’re not trying to nickel & dime their customers at all. Are there people taking advantage of the Netflix streaming limits and sharing accounts? Probably. But I guarantee […]
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We’ve been curious about the sudden slew of retailers popping up over the weekend offering aggressive pricing on InfiniTV 4 digital cable tuners. Ceton has just answered our questions with a press release detailing their new authorized retail partners including D&H Distributing, Micro Center, the Microsoft Store, Newegg and Velocity Micro. The big reductions in price from new retailers can be explained […]
Read moreOnce upon a time, Microsoft had a service called Xbox Live Diamond. It was a short-lived, and rather pitiful, discount card program for Xbox Live Gold subscribers. Sounds like we might be getting a new take on Xbox Live Diamond that could actually offer some true value. The Xbox 360 already offers IPTV funtionality with Mediaroom integration for interested service […]
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