Category: News

Epson America Unveils Industry’s First 1080p Resolution Front Projector to Break $3,000 Price Mark

LONG BEACH, Calif., March 26 /PRNewswire/ — Imagine the excitement of having a ten-foot high-definition display in your home that lets you, your family, and friends experience sports, movies, and video games in larger-than-life sizes with cutting-edge true 1080p native resolution, the industry's most cutting-edge video signal to date. Epson America today announced a new 3LCD front projector — the […]

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Epson PowerLite Pro Cinema 810 HQV Projector Review

Audioholics, fresh off their website revamp, have posted a review of the Epson Powerlite Pro 810 HQV projector. Surely you would think that the company that developed the industry standard when it comes to benchmarking displays would pass their own tests with flying colours. Of course they did! Backed up by HQV's objective testing was a battery of subjective playback […]

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Kaleidescape Prevails in DVD Ripping Case

Good news for you pirat…errr…legitimate people who love to backup your DVDs. And pretty good news in general for those of us with aspirations of building a super home media server where we can just simply store everything. CE Pro As Kaleidescape CEO Michael Malcolm explains, "The DVD CCA went on a fishing expedition for three years, trying to find […]

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The Media Center Show #101 – Orb’s Ian McCarthy

Thursday, so time for Ian's Media Center Podcast! This week up is Ian McCarthy from Orb, the makers who intend to stream your media across the world to you. Show times 00:54 Coming up this week 01:23 Email on show 100 04:55 Email on Vongo 05:23 New feature "Ask Charlie Owen" 07:07 Charlie Owen on MCMLPad 08:00 Softsled.net 09:38 How […]

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Blu-ray vs. HD-DVD: The War of the Formats

[H] Enthusiast reviews a topic we've often talked about in our forums, the neverending debate between HD DVD and Blu Ray as the format of the future. In the end, they conclude the same as everyone else, there's still no clear winner…but one thing, they do mention that pr0n won't be the deciding factor as it was with Betamax/VHS.

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Xbox LIVE Movie and TV Roster Grows as Multiple New Partners Bring Premium Content to the Online Gam

REDMOND, Wash. — March 27, 2007 — Xbox 360â„¢ just keeps getting more entertaining. Microsoft Corp. today announced that TV series and movies from A&E Network, ADV Films, National Geographic and TotalVid.com will add to the more than 1,500 hours of downloadable entertainment content already available on Xbox LIVE® in the U.S. Further capitalizing on the success it has seen […]

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Microsoft Unveils Xbox 360 Elite

I know you guys have been buzzing about this on the forums for a while now so I'm sure you'll all be happy to hear it's finally coming, the new Xbox360 with some pretty nice upgrades. Now with HDMI & in black, just to name a few of the added perks I'm sure you'll pay more for. Chris Lanier's Blog […]

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HP Exits Media Center Business, Drops DEC Line

I always thought of HP as one of Microsoft's biggest partners, so seeing this news is pretty surprising. I remember when the original Media Center was released, and theirs was basically the poster child of the MCE's. And even since then, HP's been pretty aggressive with trying unique things, and I guess that's continuing, just completely separate from Microsoft (and […]

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Solid-state Samsung drive climbs to 64GB

Ok, so yeah it's a slow news day, but I read this & can't stop thinking about the possibilities within an HTPC. With these getting up to 64gb's now, it's feasible that you could use these as the main & only hard drive in your system, making the steps to a fully silent system that much closer. The Tech Report […]

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Help Test BeyondTV 4.6.1, now with QAM

Oh QAM, what have you done for me lately? Those three small letters have caused such commotion in the Media Center world, that it's good to see BeyondTV tackle it first. Hopefully that will put more pressure on the "others" to add it in as well. Snapstream Blog The big news for this build is support for the HDHomeRun network […]

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