Aaron Ledger, Author at Missing Remote

Ceton Announces New Retail Partners and Instant $100 Rebate for Purchases Made Before June 30

June 6, 2011 Aaron Ledger

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 […]

Poll Analysis: What size is your primary HTPC Case? (connected to your primary display)

May 30, 2011 Aaron Ledger

Hopefully, you were able to participate in our poll last month, What size is your primary HTPC Case? (connected to your primary display). If not, shame on you! All kidding aside, let’s take a look at the results and see if there’s anything interesting we can learn from them. Please note that this article will make use of some new features […]

Windows Home Server 2011 Available at Newegg and Amazon

May 28, 2011 Aaron Ledger

If you’ve been awaiting the system builder copies of Windows Home Server (WHS) 2011 to become available, you no longer have to wait. Both Newegg and Amazon are currently selling the software. If you’re the daring sort, you can even upgrade an old MediaSmart WHS box, read about Mike’s experience if you haven’t already. So now that WHS 2011 is […]

Panasonic Claims Engineering Triumph Over Black Level Rise

May 27, 2011 Aaron Ledger

If you recall, in the past two years, Panasonic has had an issue with their plasma panels where the “black level” (aka minimum luminance level) has risen over time as the panels aged resulting in reduced contrast. CNET is now reporting that Panasonic has revealed that they’ve licked the problem for good with all of their 2011 panels which is […]

GPU Comparison

May 25, 2011 Aaron Ledger

Selecting a graphics processing unit (GPU) (aka video card) that has exactly the right feature set for your home theater PC (HTPC) can be a time consuming task if you’re starting your search from scratch. In the ever-changing landscape of home theater and HTPC, AMD, Intel and NVIDIA respond by implementing new features in their GPUs to keep up with […]

Tips and Tweaks – How to Optimize Performance of Media Storage Drives

May 24, 2011 Aaron Ledger

If you have disk volumes that are devoted to holding large media files such as recorded TV or other large video files and you are looking to squeeze a little bit of extra performance out of the drive, there is a tweak we’d like to share with you. The result won’t necessarily be detectable in an immediate improvement in some benchmark […]

Scythe Kozuti Low-Profile CPU Cooler

May 23, 2011 Aaron Ledger

Scythe just introduced what appears to be an attractive new option for SFF HTPC use in their low-profile CPU Cooler named Kozuti that only stands 40 mm tall. The cooler uses an 80×10 mm PWM fan to keep both height and width of the cooler under control. The fan airflow can range from 6.0 – 24.82 CFM with a corresponding […]

New Intel Sandy Bridge Parts Priced and Available

May 22, 2011 Aaron Ledger

Today, Intel has updated their price book with the new line of Sandy Bridge-based Pentium-branded parts and also some of the new Core parts. A quick search on Google Shopping reveals some of them even being available for purchase. Of particular note for HTPC enthusiasts looking for something inexpensive and efficient is the Pentium G620T which has a TDP of […]

Verizon FiOS VOD Going Over-the-Top?

May 20, 2011 Aaron Ledger

Verizon showed off some new innovations in its Flex View VOD service and revealed that they might take the service over-the-top to both subscribers and non-subscribers outside of FiOS service areas. Verizon also showed off a Roku channel that would be one way to consume Flew View VOD content. If Verizon ends up following through, it will be interesting to […]

Samsung to License RealD Technology Bringing Full Resolution 3D Using Passive Glasses

May 16, 2011 Aaron Ledger

This year, we’ve seen a big push from LG to promote 3D LCD panels utilizing inexpensive passive 3D glasses. The tech known as film patterned retarder (FPR) has a drawback in that it cuts the resolution of the image in half. Under a new license deal with RealD, Samsung will be integrating active shutter technology into LCD panels and utilizing […]

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