So today I was doing a bit of stress testing of the frontend system to make sure that it was ready for me to put back into use. It turns out there were still a couple of bugs to work out. You may recall from this blog post that I ended up using Fedora 15 with KDE as the desktop […]
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Take three very different media streamers head-to-head-to-head and you are bound to find at least one that might meet your needs. The Apple TV, the Roku family of streamers, and the Sony BDP-S580 Blu-Ray Player represent a disparate collection of media streamers I would not normally expect to see pitted against each other, particularly the inclusion of a Blu-Ray player. […]
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Hightech Information System Limited (HIS) is claiming a first with the release of the Multi-View+Sound, a USB 3.0 to HDMI adapter. It promises HDCP-compliance and 1080p support, and even DirectX 10 and DirectX 11 support for gaming. It does pipe out 2.1 and 5.1 sound, but it’s not going to provide bitstreaming for your DTS-MA and TrueHD soundtracks. The best […]
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About a week ago we pointed out an article about Matcha.com, a new content aggregation site that is looking to make its mark by building a social media-infused recommendation engine around its linked content. At the time we noted that Matcha.com’s interface and layout would serve it well for the inevitable transition to mobile app deployment. In the meantime, there […]
Read moreWell, it turns out that I’m a moron. Apparently everything was pretty much working for me already. I had all of the pieces, I just didn’t put them together correctly. After days of work I finally have LIRC recognizing my remote inputs properly. Basically what happened is that I configured the startup script for LIRC to load the correct driver […]
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With the holiday shopping season in full effect, the Internet is awash in gift guides. These gift guides are ostensibly prepared to help us find the right gifts for our friends and family, but let’s face it, we really use them to get a final rundown of the year’s best tech gadgets and make our own Santa wish lists. At least we […]
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So there you were Thanksgiving evening, the turkey carcass forgotten at the table, the football games done, and a house full of family overstaying their welcome, and you needed a movie to pacify the increasingly cranky kids that everyone was trying to ignore. If you pulled up YouTube in search of a movie rental then you had the opportunity to […]
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Today Verizon has announced plans to release their Fios TV services to the Xbox 360 platform. Users will have to subscribe to the Fios Internet and TV services in order to gain access to the service on your xbox. Another interesting fact is Verizon will sell a triple play package that includes, TV, Phone and Internet services for $89.00. As part of […]
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The idea of being able to take your content wherever you go is one that has taken off since the launch of Slingbox–which supports connecting your set top box to their specific device, and then being able to control and stream that signal to your computer (or phone or Boxee Box) from anywhere in the world. Monsoon Multimedia is aiming […]
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As previously noted, I’m working on upgrading the server in my house, which currently runs Windows Home Server (v1). While I don’t plan to use Windows Home Server 2011 for anything but backups, this guide should assist others who are thinking about how to upgrade WHS to WHS 2011, particularly migrating all your data out of the drive pool. This […]
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