When I built my house around 4 years ago, I wired for a home network and 5.1 surround sound in my living room. While that is better then none, if I would have planned it out a bit better I would have included a few more drop points to ensure I would have to use wireless for my HTPCs. EH […]
Read moreThe FCC has approved HD Radio for the rest of the radio stations in the US. The big benefit for most of us is simply an improvement in the quality of the audio. However, now radio stations will be able to embed multiple streams in the same frequency. You should be able to get things like traffic, weather and artist's […]
Read moreBBspot has Friday's laugh of the day for us. BBspot Chairman and CEO of the RIAA Mitch Bainwol said, "This change allows us to focus on our goals of ridding ourselves of annoying artists and consumers completely. The Internet has made this possible. In the days before the Internet only a few artists and industry insiders hated the RIAA, now […]
Read moreRight from the very start, we all knew that Apple TV would be a dud. And now that a few reviewers have gotten their hands on it, its pretty obvious that Apple really fell down flat on this one. They were much closer with the mac mini then this stinker. After Steve's tirade on DRM, its pretty obvious that his […]
Read moreGet your latest version of SageTV here: SageTV V6.1.6 Release Notes 3/20/2007 RELEASE CANDIDATE 5 Core Updates 1. DVB frequency updates for Sweden 2. Fixed various bugs related to not using an always increasing clock. The most notable one being when SageTVClient would disconnect from the server whenever it did a significant clock change. 3. Added property optimize_metadata_mem_usage which defaults […]
Read moreThere are a lot of early players getting into the online movie rental market. Movie Gallery, owners of Hollywood Video, have announced the plan to enter the market before the end of 2007. This service is aimed to compliment their existing B&M stores. I personally like the choice of renting online or from the store. However, they really have not […]
Read moreI am glad to see industry leaders get together to form an association to help stear and develop IPTV standards. We don't need 20 different standards in different countries that will require different equipment depending where you. Let the service do the talking. Hopefully this will allow consumers not to get tied down to hardware and mini-monoplies. tvover.net The group […]
Read moreChris pointes out that Charlie Owen, a member of the MCE Team, got in a little hot water for pointing out some of the features that maybe in the next version of Vista MCE. The blog post in question has since been wiped clean with the only evidence of it at a ZDNET blog. Nothing to interesting really but he […]
Read moreTHe Matrix Trilogy coming to HD DVD has to be one of the biggest announcements yet for the HD DVD team. On May 22nd, two box set collections of the Matrix trilogy will be hitting stores. However, it won't be an exclusive, Warner plans on releasing a Blu-ray version once the specs for BD Live are finalized. Expect to pay […]
Read moreCharlie Owen has a post in his blog welcoming questions about Windows Media Center and the MCE Team! Here is you chance to ask a MS employee about whatever is on your mind! Since this post there has also been a couple of follow up response to questions posed to him. Retrosight Blog Leave your question as a comment for […]
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