THIS CONTEST HAS ENDED!! THANKS TO ALL FOR PARTICIPATING!!! The prizes and giveaways continue, this time up, courtesy of the fine folks at SageTV, their awesome HD300 Theater Media Player! We took an in-depth look at the HD300 back in August and this thing is just awesome. This little box can connect to any TV in your network and […]
Read moreRemember when we used to need to convince average consumers to buy the Barracuda IV hard drive for HTPC usage from Seagate over WD or Maxtor? Well fast forward 8 years, and now Seagate is really trying to take over everyone. For a light 1.4 BILLION dollars, this is pretty big. There’s quite a bit more to this deal than […]
Read moreSamsung has done an excellent job of making some of the best looking HD displays on the market, and with almost no bezel and 1.2″ depth the UN55D8000 may be the sleekest HDTV available this year. As an edge-lit LED LCD there are trade-offs in price and performance for the form factor, but you’ll have to check out the review […]
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Wireless video transmission–it just sounds like asking for trouble, doesn’t it? Even under the best of circumstances, sending 1080p compressed video via 802.11n doesn’t seem like such a great idea. A number of you have probably even tried to do this with varying amounts of success. Now, imagine trying to wirelessly send uncompressed 1080p video at 59.94 hertz (Hz). If […]
Read moreAnother week of not a lot of super star picks here. If you like kung fu, Ip Man 2 I’ve heard many good things about. Street Kings 2 has Ray Liotta in it…he was in Goodfellas, so that has to count for something right? Eh…onto the easiest pick of the week EVER… MissingRemote’s Pick of the Week The King’s […]
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Inspired from our friend Brent over at Geek Tonic, I have put together a 2011 Spring/Summer TV Guide Listing. The spreadsheet shows all new tv shows, all finales, mini series, made for TV movies, anything that might peak your viewing intrests. View Fullscreen The guide is ever evolving and updated, if we missed something leave a comment and we […]
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The Ceton InfiniTV saga continues. Just this past Thursday, Amazon began selling the InfiniTV 4. As of Friday morning, the card was ranked over 1,000 in the Amazon electronics category. By Friday evening, the card had rocketed into the 200 range and fluctated between the 200 and 300 range over the weekend. Currently, the card stands ranked at 255 and […]
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MissingRemote forum member, Soitjes, posted to let us know about a new application named Digital Home Server (DHS). The application has been conceived to unify media playback, applications, widgets and home automation tasks into an interface that is simple, designed for touch control and can run on any size screen. DHS runs on Windows 7/Vista/XP and is completely free […]
Read moreJust wanted to take a moment to announce the winner of the Amulet Devices Voice Remote Control contest….sbrown23!! Congratulations! You will be receiving an e-mail from me which I’ll need some info within 48 hours.
Read moreLast week during the second day of Mix11 Microsoft announced the opening of the Kinect for Windows SDK. While this might not mean much right now, the possibilities are endless. Adding Netflix Kinect like support for Media Center or integrating Kinect home automation like features posses some really interesting features. If you are a developer and would like to join […]
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