Author: Alan Cooke

Engadget CES bits of interest

These are some of the CES highlights that I thought were of interest from Engadget: http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/07/hauppauge-intros-wintv-hvr-950q-usb-tuner-with-clear-qam-support/ – Hauppauge intros WinTV-HVR-950Q USB tuner with Clear-QAM support http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/07/whoa-dinovo-mini-has-a-hidden-ps3-compatibility-switch/ – Whoa — DiNovo Mini has a hidden PS3 compatibility switch http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/07/panasonic-gets-official-with-wirelesshd-transmission-system/ – Panasonic gets official with WirelessHD transmission system http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/07/comcast-panasonic-showing-off-portable-dvr/ – Comcast, Panasonic showing off portable DVR http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/06/samsung-intros-spinpoint-m6-500gb-standard-height-laptop-drive/ – Samsung intros Spinpoint M6 […]

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NVIDIA at CES 2008

PC Perspective, those lucky bastards, are at CES this year and have coverage of Nvidia’s ’08 plans. Of interest to me is the IGP that will offload 100% VC-1, H.264, and MPEG-2. PC Perspective Specific graphics details on this part are still sketchy, but I am betting that it features 2 ROPS and the full 16 stream processors. The most […]

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Driver Heaven review of the Gigabyte GA-G33M-S2H

I had High hopes for this review seeing as I have the AMD version of this board. But it comes with Intel Integrated graphics and of course they have no idea on how to review an HTPC designed board. Not one test on video quality or performance with 1080P content. But with Intel integrated graphics and no hardware acceleration I […]

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Hauppauge intros PCIe card for $49

I would call you crazy if I thought a tuner card that can do analog, OTA HDTV and QAM would be priced under $50. Well, Hauppauge, famours for the tuner cards has done it. What remains to be seen if they bring stable drivers and good image quality to the table. One of these cards and a SageTV license would […]

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AMD’s Strategy for Bringing HD to the Masses

ATI is doing their part to get the word out about HD. Giz has a short interview with AMD’s CTO about their 2008 plans. Not mentioned is their upcoming IGP that supports UVD.  Gizmodo The Puma mobile chipset, due out in Q2 of this year, is able to play the Transformers HD DVD (intense MPEG-4 AVC) and still have 40% […]

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Alan’s Building Log Episode #2

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As I mentioned in Episode #1 , I spent sometime integrating the XPS 420 and accessories into my home theater. I decided to snap a couple pictures from my build log to show. Other then that, I really dhaven’t spent much time on my HTPC except to watcha few music videos from Yougle . I had intended to use the […]

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TGB @ CES: A Discussion with Jessica Zahn

Jessica Zahn, a program manager at MS for the Media Center team sat down with TGB to discuss a range of Media Center topics. Nothing too much of susbtance except that DVD streaming will be a reality. We have no idea when, but Jessica confirmed it is already working. TGB Xbox 360 Media Center Extender Move on, there isn’t much […]

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CES Bits Today – 1080i Capture Card!

First up, let me point you to a SageTV thread that has a couple of interesting tidbits but are lacking serious details. In this post, Andy (Opus4) states that Sage is at the Echostar booth. I wonder what Sage has up their sleeve, perhaps a partnership with Echostar? In the Echostar booth (Central Hall 9021) there’s a technology demo with […]

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CES 2008

There is just so much damn news coming out of CES I just can’t cover it all. Engadget has well over four pages of posts and it is only the first day. So rather then list of the individual sights, I will send you to a few sites that has lots of coverage. Chris Lanier’s Blog – He has some […]

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