I’ve been using Windows Home Server since it first launched and was quite interested to see Microsoft building on the basic concept by expanding the line with Windows Home Server 2011, Windows Small Business Server 2011 Essentials and Windows Storage Server 2008 R2 Essentials. All three operating systems share their Windows Server 2008 R2 roots and easy to use Dashboard […]
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Media Browser will be changing their metadata XML file name to movie.xml with the next release, codenamed Apollo. The change comes in response to a change made by My Movies in their most recent release. I hadn’t noticed the change in the My Movies version 4.02 release notes, but the My Movies team has decided to start encrypting their own […]
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To date, 3D TV technology hasn’t really done anything for me. Even aside from the fact that my TV isn’t ready for an upgrade, the idea of wearing glasses to watch TV does not appeal, and the idea of convincing my family to wear special glasses while watching TV appeals even less. Perhaps LG will start a trend with their […]
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Towers as big as the Antec P280 aren’t usually the kind of cases that we highlight here at Missing Remote, but Antec’s Performance One line has always been about combining enthusiast-class hardware with silent computing performance; probably a big part of why they have been a favorite with our friends at SilentPCReview.com. Certainly, the P280 would make a fine home […]
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There was a time when I wouldn’t have given a speaker bar a second look, but I know the quality of these speakers has improved over time and there are times and places where full surround sound speaker sets just do not work out. Samsung has a package that they would like to pitch for those times and places with […]
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I know a couple of people who have purchased HornetTek cases for their iPhones, but I was not aware that they also made a line of PC accessories and media streamers. The HornetTek Fantasy is not a networked media streamer, but rather an HDD streamer, similar to the Seagate GoFlex Cinema except that you attach your own external USB hard drive. […]
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LG is going to have an exciting booth at CES this year. We heard recently about the 55″ OLED TV they are planning on showing at CES 2012, and now comes word that LG is also going to be showing off an 84″ 4K 3D LCD TV. As with the OLED TV, showing off a TV at CES is absolutely […]
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Seven LCD panel manufacturers, including heavy-hitters such as Samsung, Sharp, and Hitachi, have reached a settlement that will see them paying out $553 million in response to price fixing allegations made in class action lawsuits brought by eight state attorney generals. The companies allegedly conspired to keep panel prices inflated from 1999 to 2006 with monthly meetings among executives to […]
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Sydney Finkelstein, a professor of strategy and leadership at the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth College, has helped the New York Times put together a list of the worst CEOs of 2011. Included on that list is none other than Netflix CEO, Reed Hastings. Coming on the heels of a ForeSee report about Netflix’s customer satisfaction ranking taking a […]
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I have become a bit of a fan of AirPlay over the last several months. I have to admit that there is something undeniably cool about starting Pandora on my iPod and pushing the stream out to my receiver with just the touch of a virtual button. Google TV users who want to get their device in on the AirPlay […]
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