Fellow MVP Pete Stagman has written up a helpful how-to on how to manage your blu-ray collection in Windows Media Center. Nothing overly complicated but a great starter course for anyone just getting started in the HTPC world. NEDMug Ok, so once you have the Software installed as shown above. You can place the BD disk you want to rip […]
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The announcement is set to come at CES, which is very soon. Very interesting considering we haven’t heard a peep about this but curious to see what it is exactly. For now, just enjoy the teaser. More non-information over at the SiliconDust forums .
Read moreIts a shame that cable rates keep getting increased, especially considering the economic hardships we are all suffering. Glad all of us have the option to not pay for a DVR STB. Yes, a late deal was struck between Fox and Time Warner Cable, but that deal involves Time Warner paying Fox more for the right to carry its stations. And guess who’s paying […]
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Intel DH55TC & Core i5-661 (Clarkdale) Review The family of processors code-named "Clarkdale" has sparked a great deal of interest since its existence and some basic performance information spread out across the web in late September. Teasing home theater PC (HTPC) enthusiasts with incredibly low power usage and built in HD codec bit streaming all packaged together with enough […]
Read moreIf you’re into XBMC and want to go for a passive SFF HTPC build, your odds of success just went up. Anandtech is reporting that XBMC is going to get full hardware acceleration support for the Crystal HD. Thanks to the efforts of Scott Davilla, the XBMC developers and Broadcom there’s now full support for the Broadcom Crystal […]
Read moreAdam and Josh from the Digital Media Zone started up a Stack Overflow style site for some Home Theater Q/A. I think Adam said it best in his intro, so I’ll let him explain: This isn’t your typical discussion forum. Most questions have definitive answers, not opinions and so you don’t find the bickering and flame wars that you […]
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QNAP TS-219P Recently released from QNAP the TS-219P is the new addition to the two slot NAS family. Read on to see if it will fit your storage needs. Introduction Previously, we took a look at the TS-209 Pro II NAS from QNAP and found it to work very well. Today we will take a look at the […]
Read moreI’m still a fan of 3D stuff. I think that the big thing will be that content creaters need to create good content in order to make it take off. Here’s a look at what Nvidia is doing on the hardware side of things. But 3D gaming was just a foot in the door for NVIDIA’s 3D Vision product […]
Read moreI don’t know if anyone else out there is looking forward to 3DTV but I think that it could be a very cool thing if content creaters use it properly. It is expected to be the main focus of CES in 2010. We’ll have to wait and see. Until then, read this article. And it seems a certainty that […]
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Looks like a nice little update from the XBMC Gang….I wonder when they’re going to change their name seeing as they are no longer just a mod for your XBox, but a fantastic Media Center application that’s free to all. Engadget The so-called Camelot build is now available for download on Windows, OS X and Linux, with the most […]
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