Disneyland–the happiest place on earth–and the home of some of the most cutting edge in technology for the home? Apparantly so! I recently was invited to tour the brand new attraction located in the Tomorrowland of California’s Disneyland Theme Park. According to the Disneyland.com webpage : Experience how incredible your family’s life can be with the latest technologies in Disneyland’s […]
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Ok, so I know that I just recently covered TVTonic , but then they went ahead and released probably the coolest and well implemented plugin in all of Media Center–Olympics!! If you haven’t already noticed, Vista Media Center (U.S. only, sorry international folks) now has under it’s Online Spotlight, a central icon for the Olympics. Clicking on that link entered […]
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DivX made its name as the first truly popular way to pirat…err….watch compressed movies over your computer. It caused tons of hassles for those of us who had built lower powered HTPC’s, only to have lip sync or stuttering problems as our poor left over 400MHz CPU’s could not handle it. My how times have changed… DivX is arguably the defacto […]
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I recall the days when the government passed a bill back which forced the cable companies to play fair and allow for users to access the entire library of channels with the use of a Cable Card. The idea was simple: Cable Companies have a monopoly on regions and services for cable television, and were essentially forcing users to rent […]
Read moreIan covers a plethora of topics and brings in an expert from HP to discuss the latest Power Pack release for Windows Home Server which fixes the nasty data corruption bug. Show Times: 00:50 Coming up this week 01:37 Email – Which Extender has the best WAF 03:45 Email – Media Center on Windows Server 2008? 04:10 Ed Bott on […]
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Video podcasts within your Media Center simply make SENSE! It makes so much sense, that even Microsoft developed their own application to let you enjoy some online programming, for free–Internet TV Beta. That being said, Internet TV really is more of a "push" technology, with very little customization. As opposed to TVTonic, which is geared entirely around full user control […]
Read moreI would go off into some sarcastic saying about how maybe finally the Ricavision remote might ship…finally….after a looooong delay. But hey, I’m just happy to see Microsoft make good on the promise of Sideshow…finally. Sign up for the open beta if you want to play with it. Windows SideShow Team -Browse the TV Guide and schedule recordings. Browse Recorded […]
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HP has always been involved in Media Center, since the early days of their z-line of PC’s which really wanted to be placed into the living room. Times have changed, and things are different at HP, but with the introduction of the Media Smart line of products they have shifted gears in how they attack the market. HP initially released […]
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You may have recently seen or heard about a new upcoming device from ZeeVee called the ZvBox. The idea behind it is simple–connect your computer to the box via VGA, and connect it directly to the coax TV cable from any room in your house. Then tune to the Zv channel and you will see a high resolution of your […]
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It was recently announced, that the Media Center world has been lucky enough to gain a few new online spotlight programs, including the Olympics & the Queensberry Fight Network. Being a large fight fan, I was excited to see what the Fight Network had to offer, so that’s why I’ll be covering it first. Having never heard of it, I […]
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