I’ve never been a regular user of XBMC, but I happened to be up late last night testing an XBMC install for a special project and noticed a message on the RSS ticker announcing a feature freeze for “Eden”. Being otherwise occupied, it took me until today to follow up on the XBMC blog. Sure enough, XBMC 11.0 “Eden” is […]
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Its been awhile since Roku released the Roku 2 and we have even seen the odd review pop up, but every so often we need someone to take a device for a super detailed spin before we know if it is right for us, and that is just what the folks over at AnandTech have done with the Roku 2 […]
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Amar Kota has released an update to the ESPN3 addon for windows media center. In addition to restoring the ability to watch games in full screen the update also enables support for streaming content from Watch ESPN (if you are on one of the lucky few carriers to have this service). So head on over to madeformediacenter.com and download the update, and be sure to […]
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Always ready to expand their influence into the living room, Microsoft is getting ready to stream Pay TV content through the Xbox live Service. From the available reports, the service will run similar to the HBO Go app, were subscribers will have to prove they subscribe to the station through their cable provider (ie FIOS or Comcast). Kids around […]
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‘Tis the season of updates. Fresh on the heels of the updates to My Movies and Media Browser comes an update to Media Center Master, one of the more popular metadata editors that serve to complement those media management programs so well. The basic version of Media Center Master is available for free, but one of the best features of the premium […]
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Media Browser and My Movies, two of the most popular media management plugins for Windows Media Center, have received updates. The My Movies updates are relatively minor pre-release updates consisting primarily of bug fixes and small feature updates, but the updates are spread across all of the major current My Movies products. My Movies for Windows 7 Media Center and My […]
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Some of our recent enclosure reviews (SilverStone TJ08-E, Fractal Design Define Mini) have featured external USB 3.0 ports requiring a connection to a 19-pin header required by the USB 3.0 specification which poses a problem for most motherboards to date. While SilverStone was kind enough to provide an internal USB 3.0 to USB 2.0 adapter with the TJ08-E, it would […]
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So far, we have reviewed three chassis from Fractal Design, the Define R3 ATX, the Define Mini Micro-ATX and the Array R2 Mini-ITX, and have been impressed by their build quality and aesthetics. Today we are reviewing a chassis in their Core line which aims to provide a unique combination of design, features, cooling performance and value. The Fractal Design […]
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Streaming live TV to a tablet is nothing new. Cable companies, individual networks, and 3rd-party hardware developers such as the Slingbox have all brought apps to the major tablets that allow for streaming live TV on mobile devices. Evidently Comcast has decided that they should get in on the act too. Comcast’s Xfinity TV started life as Comcast’s online VOD […]
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Like the OCZ combined product, the SSD hard drive cache is probably not very interesting for the average HTPC deployment since a video stream probably isn’t hot (i.e. the same data is not being read over and over again); but, if you could use the same device to cache a Network drive, and assuming the caching algorithm uses some intelligent read-ahead (e.g. […]
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