Not a very busy week to start off the new year, but I work with what’s available! I tried watching Cloudy With A Chance of Meatballs….couldn’t finish it. Chuck is great of course, if you like TV Show Blu-rays (don’t forget new Chuck starts this Sunday!). MissingRemote’s Pick of the Week The Final Destination The Final Destination is the […]
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Denon has been around for a long time and have always been known for high quality components. The 4310 continues where their very popular 3-series left off and comes in at a rather hefty $2000 price tag. So no surprise that it comes with every bell and whistle you would ever imagine needing. Audioholics With a full compliment of […]
Read moreFellow 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 […]
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