Did the InfiniTV 6 news not interest you? Are you out of PCI-E slots? How about a USB version? Along with the InfiniTV 6, the InfiniTV 4-USB has made a showing at CES. Hopefully we’ll have some pictures for you in the next day or two. So what do you think, does a USB 2.0 InfiniTV 4 interest you? Update: […]
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Have you held back from purchasing a Ceton InfiniTV 4? Is four tuners not enough? How about six? Through a tweet looks like the rumored InfiniTV 6 has made it into Ceton’s line of MOCUR tuners. @engadgethd slight correction to your gateway media console article. It is actually a Ceton InfiniTV 6 in it 🙂 may want to update the […]
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At CES today Hauppauge officially announced their new Colossus High Definition H.264 Video Recorder. It is similiar to their existing USB HD PVR but is an internal PCI-E card and includes unencrypted HDMI up to 1080i. In the same press release SageTV announced support for the Colossus in SageTV 7.x. We hope to have a hands on with the Colossus […]
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The H10.ODD is a microATX fanless HTPC-centric chassis brought to use by HDPLEX Inc. If the name HDPLEX (no relation to OSX Media Center Plex) sounds familiar, it should. We helped spread the word a little over a year ago HD Plex Announces Fanless, Heatpipe-cooled All-Aluminum HTPC Enclosures. I was curious then and jumped at the opportunity to review one […]
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Disclaimer: This is a fairly worthless utility Update: Ceton has informed me that the reason the current InfiniTV4 driver sets their network interface to Public is due to a potential tuner discovery issue. Ceton is looking into how to safely change it to private. I’m going to keep the tool available to allow users to reset the InfiniTV4 interface back […]
Read moreEd Bott’s blog on How to update Intel drivers automatically reminded me that I’ve been meaning to write a blog on Intel Management Engine Interface (MEI) and why you should install it. I’ll keep it short and simple. If you are using an Intel 5 Series Chipset (H55\H57) paired with a compatible Intel Core i3 or i5 for onboard graphics […]
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This is neither new news (it was released last week) nor HTPC news but I thought it was worth mentioning nonetheless that “Microsoft Security Essentials v2” is available for download. Microsoft Security Essentials (MSE) v1 was my preferred anti-virus application and v2 makes significant improvements without adding bloat. I know many HTPC enthusiasts prefer to ignore anti-virus protection on their […]
Read moreThanks to ianjohnson over at TheGreenButton for letting us know. TheNerds.net is selling the HDPVR for about $68 after shipping- http://www.thenerds.net/HAUPPAUGE.Hauppauge_HD_PVR_Video_Recorder.1288.html I don’t know why it’s so cheap, but I bought two. The site says they have about 30 in stock.
Read moreI’m always happy to see posts from Pete and value his opinion. This blog post is no exception–very informative and worth the read. We’ve been using Windows Media Center as our home’s main DVR for several years now. We have basic cable service, and over the past few months, my cable company has started to switch some of our channels […]
Read moreI was determined last week to hold off on any Black Friday purchases but thanks to Aaron (swoon) I ended up buying The Lord of the Rings Blu-ray box set from Target.com. Or so I thought… It was an incredible deal at $7.99 + S\H + tax, especially as it was not advertised as a Black Friday deal. There were […]
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