Thursday, time for Ian's Media Center Show Podcast! This week up I'm extremely interested as Andrew Van Til joins Ian. Andrew's better known as Babgvant, and if you follow this site at all, know I'm a HUGE fan & supporter of his DVR-MS Toolbox software which allows you to skip commercials.Show Times: 00:50 Coming up this week 01:48 Email – […]
Read moreCyberLink PowerDVD Ultra Enriches the Quality of High-Definition Video Playback with Support for NVIDIA's Second Generation PureVideo® HD (VP2) Architecture Taipei, Taiwan—-May 17, 2007—-CyberLink Corp. (5203.TW), a world leader in digital home solutions, announces that PowerDVD Ultra-the only retail software to support Blu-ray Disc, HD DVD, and DVDs-now supports NVIDIA's second generation PureVideo® HD (VP2) architecture on NVIDIA's latest […]
Read moreFor the tall price of $1,000, you can get ahold of Pioneer's next gen Elite BR player. It appears to do everything right in the video and sound department, however, no word if it supports 1080p/24 and BD-J. Engadget HD Additionally, this device features an "enhanced version of Pioneer's Home Media Gallery home networking feature," which includes IP networking and […]
Read moreYowza, PCAlchemy has a very HOT deal going on right now! For $199 you can get the Gyration MCE Remote (yes, the nice one), HDHomeRun, a premium splitter and two RG6 cables! Here is the link to the special. You have to act quick, the sale ends on 5/20/2007! Thanks to John for the heads up on this great deal. […]
Read moreSkirge is our contest winner for last week's forum contest :). Due in part to his continuing work on his blog and of course his participation elsewhere in the forum. As the contest rules stated, you have three days to claim your Sage Media Center Key. Congrats and thank you for participating in the forum :). Next week's contest will […]
Read moreNot sure quite how this would work, but quite interesting. Think your entire speed would improve, or would they somehow filter it so only Sling traffic would get the speed boost? EhomeUpgrade Later this year users will get a virtual button added to their PC and cell phone software that "will boost home broadband service speed" for better video quality […]
Read moreIn one of the more obvious articles I've read in a while, CE Pro has some manufacturer insight into the market for HD & Blu-Ray DVDs, which…surprise, surprise, isn't doing so hot. Until everyone learns to get along, this is going to take a while. If you HAVE to have it, I say you cover yourself & just get a […]
Read moreHow "low cost" is $866 is beyond me, but GearDigest seems to think so, and their Day2 build will be a high end system which I can only imagine how much it's going to cost. Oh, and for $866, you get a 200gb hard drive, and that's to store HD shows as well…it's just baffling. Maybe someone else can make […]
Read moreI just got an interesting email from the support folks at Auzentech that I thought might be worth sharing. This is the first I've seen of sound card manufacturers discussing a timeline for supporting HDMI (real full bandwidth HDMI, not just SPDIF pass-through). I'm quite happy as the X-Tension is an add on board that should work with either the […]
Read moreSageTV Media Server software available for Windows® Home Server Platform offering digital entertainment at home and away from home Inglewood, CA (May 15, 2007) — SageTV LLC, a leading developer of digital entertainment and Placeshifting software solutions, today announced support for Microsoft's Windows® Home Server. Everyone's digital media libraries are growing rapidly. Having a convenient, reliable, expandable, always on place […]
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