Amazon today introduced the Kindle Owner’s Lending Library which allows Kindle owners to borrow one e-book a month directly from Amazon with no due dates or late fees. Now I know that e-books are not the type of thing we usually cover here at Missing Remote, but this is an interesting announcement even for us media mavens because of how […]
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A lot of great things have been released recently from Plex and this is just one more thing. The team over at Plex have released an App for Google TV integrating the great features of Plex into Google TV. With the new App you can do all the usual thing you can normally do with Plex, streaming media, accessing your […]
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One feature that some Media Center users would love to take advantage of is Apple AirPlay. There are already some Windows based AirPlay receiver applications and one of those is Aerodrom. The same developers of Aerodrom have now released a Media Center Add-in that integrates their Aerdrom application and brings it into Media Center adding the ability to play media […]
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MythTV is complicated to setup. MythTV only runs under Linux. MythTV is only for people who like to tweak their setups all the time…These are some of the stereotypes surrounding MythTV. While this may have been true at one point things have gotten much easier lately. One of the things that has gotten a lot of recent attention is building […]
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Building on the announcement about the latest line of Barracuda’s from yesterday, I managed to find a few reviews of the 3TB model. Everyone seems pretty impressed with this 3 platter monster’s performance. However, it’s currently being advertised at nearly $300, so I think most people around here (myself included) will be waiting for the price to drop a little. One […]
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I think we can officially say that ABC has embraced the future of streaming media over the Internet. First they buy up a stake in Hulu, then they sign a deal with Netflix. Now Netflix and Amazon both get a bit of ABC’s streaming love. ABC has extended their deal with Netflix, adding more shows along the way. At the […]
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Sony has suffered through several years of rocky financials. One of Howard Stringer’s primary goals when he became CEO of Sony was to restructure the company to become competitive against more nimble international competitors. Sony’s TV division has been one of the biggest drags on the company’s bottom line, and it looks like it is finally starting to get the […]
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Drive Bender was released a couple of weeks ago, making it the first commercial add-on to bring drive pooling back to Windows Home Server. The original WHS Drive Extender was sorely missed in WHS 2011, but it had its fair share of issues, so any third-party solution looking to bring that same kind of low-level functionality has to be approached […]
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Plex started life as a media center style program based on XBMC for the Mac. Plex is aiming a bit higher now. Over the last few days, while I was preoccupied with piles of Halloween candy, Plex was rolling out a series of updates to their growing lineup of applications. First out of the gate was myPlex. MyPlex is a […]
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Yet another announcement I’ve been anxiously awaiting! My multi-platter 1TB drives have been begging me–practically laughing at me–to upgrade them to 1.5TB or 2TB models. But, I have refused to purchase anything with more than 2 platters or anything that spins at less than 7200rpm. As a result, I’ve been suffering from feelings of size inadequacy for some time now. […]
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