Technology of CableCARD; How long it’s been around? Why’s it important?For the full nitty gritty details of CableCARD check out the Wikipedia entry which is fairly thorough. At a higher level, the technology was developed to protect consumers from being forced into having to rent set top boxes (STB) at increasing fees from cable companies (or MSOs) without an alternative. […]
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Not too long ago, we took a look at Fractal Design’s Define R3 ATX chassis and came away impressed. Today, we’re going to examine the R3’s younger sibling, the Define Mini Micro-ATX tower chassis. The Define Mini holds a lot of promise with six 2.5”/3.5” internal and two 5.25” external bays, six fan slots, support for expansion cards up to […]
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Apparently, the backlash from the recent cost increase wasn’t ticking off enough customers. So, Netflix has decided to begin enforcing the streaming limits. Note that these limits were always in place, but Netflix was not enforcing them. However, that seems to have ended on September 1st. I know quite a few people were touting this “bonus” as a bit of […]
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Hauppauge has had a long tradition of delivering tuners and capture solutions to the home theater PC (HTPC) market so it is only appropriate that the legacy continues in the modern era with Hauppauge’s new CableCARD offering, the WinTV-DCR-2650. Offering two tuners, a USB connection to PCs and a tantalizing low retail price in the Digital Cable Tuner (DCT) market, […]
Read moreFor all of you CableCard users that are NFL addicts, check this link out. Apparently you can subscribe to the NFL Sunday Ticket (without switching to DirectTV) on your PS3. I was excited until I saw the price. With NFL SUNDAY TICKET™ you can experience every out of market game each Sunday and you also get the RED ZONE CHANNEL®. […]
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Microsoft has released screen shots of Windows 8 supporting ISO and VHD natively inside of the Operating System. It is going to be built right into the Explorer and will support mounting and ejecting right from any explorer menu. You will no longer have to burn a disc to access the information on the ISO or install any 3rd party […]
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Asrock has demonstrated a marked interest in the HTPC market over the last few years and has assembled a solid lineup of SFF barebones kits specifically aimed at HTPC enthusiasts. We even reviewed one of the early models, the ASRock ION-330 Nettop. The current cream of the crop Asrock SFFs are the Vision 3D line that combine an Intel Arrandale mobile processor with […]
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Soothsayer tech analyst, Philip Swann, says that “idiot TV makers spent an enormous amount of time and money” trying to get people to buy 3D TVs they didn’t want and predicts display manufacturers will give up on advertising on ESPN 3D which will result in the nascent channel’s demise. ESPN’s response to these claims is a little more reasoned. New […]
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Intel has quietly introduced a whole heap of new Sandy Bridge processors, modestly cut the price on some old processors, and even discontinued a few Pentium processors. Most of the new models are simple speed bumps of previous models. There are couple of new low power processors, including the Core i3 2120T and the Pentium G630T, each bringing an extra 100 Mhz, […]
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Mediaroom is Microsoft’s IPTV platform. Mediaroom 2.0 was announced at CES 2010. News about Mediaroom 2.0 has been hard to come by pretty much ever since. There has been speculation about how far Mediaroom would expand beyond set-top boxes and the Xbox 360, and now we have more info about the technical details behind some of the forthcoming Mediaroom 2.0 […]
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