Author: jennyfur

Will be interesting to see how users respond to this.   Great news for Hulu fans. Hulu has officially announced the upcoming availability of Hulu Plus (currently available via “preview invite”). The $9.99/mo Hulu Plus service will provide subscribers with a complete archive of all shows available through the service in 720p HD video. In other words, if you’re interested […]

Pretty basic stuff for most of us here, but useful to pass along to someone you know who may not be as technologically savvy.   Buying the right HDTV is actually much harder than walking into a store and laying down some plastic—and certainly much harder than it should be. But there are quite a few things you can do […]

This thing really does look like something out of Star Trek. Not sure I’d want to use one.   The Cyclops universal remote would fit in so well in someone’s Star Fleet quarters, I’m surprised it doesn’t have a replicator button on it. Fortunately, you won’t have to wait for the far-flung future to own one. [Gizmodo]  

I’m sure most of us here are already using a lot of the plugins on this list, but it’s a nice starting point for newer users who may not be aware of some of these options. Due to the popularity of our (fairly outdated) top five plugins post here at Hack7MC let’s take a look at some of the new […]

Competition for MonoPrice perhaps? I wonder how good the quality of their cables will be.   With AmazonBasics, the online retail giant is jumping headfirst into the consumer electronics space with its own private line of low-cost accessories. The products are all packaged in "frustration free" packaging, and include HDMI cables, Ethernet cords, and blank DVDs, to name a few. […]

Nice price for a dual card that’s Win 7 compatible.   Designed for Windows 7 and compatible with Windows XP / XP Media Center 2005 and Vista (32 and 64 Bit), AVerTVHD Duet is a new PCI Express ATSC (over-the-air) / ClearQAM digital cable tuner from AVerMedia capable of recording two channels at once — up to 1080i HD resolution […]

Well, it seems more and more stuff keeps getting added to the xbox 360 dashboard while the extender portion gets no love. Just announced at E3: Last.FM support. Seeing as how development on the only Last.FM plugin I know of for VMC died quite awhile ago, this is welcome news.   Microsoft and Last.FM are making sweet, sweet music on […]

I’ve been using TVersity for awhile now to view unsupported video on my Xbox 360. Looks like now they have support for a lot of popular video sites. PlayOn might need to watch their backs.   TVersity has stepped up their game and has added access to many of the top video sites on the Net [full list]. According to […]

From the author of the vmcNetflix plugin. You’ll need the PlayOn digital media server software however, which after the 14 day trial runs out will cost you $40.   vmcPlayIt is an add-in for Microsoft Windows Vista Media Center which provides a front-end interface to the PlayOn digital media server software for Vista Media Center PCs and Extenders.  The PlayOn […]

Pretty sweet looking device. Be sure to click on the "hands-on" review link from Gizmodo as well for more info, images and video.   This has got to be bar far one of the most impressive pieces of hardware I’ve seen in quite some time. The Touch Book, by a small California startup called Always Innovating, is designed to work […]