Today was a big renewal date for the Media Center MVPs across the world. I was honored to receive my 5th consecutive MVP award for Media Center, and am also proud to share this day with my friend and occasional-MR-contributor Andrew Cherry. Also an MVP but not up for renewal yet is our very own Mikinho. Congratulations to all the […]
Read moreHere are the podcasts from this week, lots to choose from. Enjoy! The science behind viewing 3D images in different applications, the latest technological developments, and your questions. Guests: Dave Gregory of Galaxie Entertainment and Greg Le Duc of Le Duc Design Group [Home Theater Geeks 25] Now that episode 200 is out of the way we can get back […]
Read moreWow, I can’t remember any other week with this many Blu-ray releases of which I barely recognized any of them. I saw Beautiful, that was a pretty entertaining and messed up movie. But the pick is obvious… MissingRemote’s Pick of the Week Hot Tub Time Machine Plot is simple–4 buddies enter a hot tub only to be transported back in […]
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The question has been posed more times than I can count, and part of the fault lies on the HDMI specification itself which took computer manufacturers seemingly forever to figure it out. The holy grail of getting Blu-ray from your HTPC to your home theater was always being able to bit stream HD audio formats, such as Dolby TrueHD and […]
Read moreSilverstone has been making HTPC cases for the longest time, and they’re always a pretty solid option. They make some that are roomy enough to handle any specs you’d want to throw at it. And at $140 it’s not an unreasonable asking price either, although no volume knobs or VFD displays…if that sorta stuff interests you. Today we look at […]
Read moreLooks like eMachines is jumping on the SFF Nettop bandwagon. Priced at $299, doesn’t seem like an awful idea. And with decent enough specs, HDMI and an Nvidia graphics…maybe it can do the HTPC duties. Inside the small HTPC is an AMD Athlon II NEO CPU, GeForce 9200 graphics, and 2GB of RAM. In addition to HTPC duties, eMachines says […]
Read moreShocking….another extender device 🙂 But hey, it’s Friday. HTPCs and media centres are growing in popularity as our houses become far more linked in terms of media. However, these systems can still be too expensive for some, or too big, too complicated; what’s a guy to do? One option it seems is to get yourself a network media player. […]
Read moreAnother solid receiver offering for only $600, and seems to have a plethora of features if you’re in the market. The RX-V667 handles legacy signals with kid gloves via a new high quality video processing with precise deinterlacing, motion adaptive and edge adaptive deinterlacing and multi-cadence (incl. 3-2 pull-down) detection. Again this feature set is typically not found in sub […]
Read moreHere are the podcasts from this week, lots to choose from. Enjoy! The guys talk about their recent trip to the Southeast Linux Fest in Spartanburg, South Carolina. Many tvs and Blu-Ray DVD players now do Netflix streaming. [MythTVCast – Episode 21] Encoding and ripping…. DVDFab HD Decrypter and XviD4PSP are your free picks for archiving your discs! What is […]
Read moreI’ve been to the Disneyland House of Tomorrow, and this looks like an extension of that with even more cool stuff. CIO got to take a full tour and posted some neat photos. Microsoft’s full-scale model home of the future may seem like science fiction, but interactive bedrooms, dishes that charge cellphones, sensors that notify you when plants need water, […]
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