Using the Linksys PLK300 Powerline AV Network Kit

With the invention of BD-Live in your players to Netflix in your television sets, the reasons for needing internet in your home theater is no longer limited just to the HTPC fanatics. If you have a larger home or just one with terrible wifi connection, here’s a nifty alternative that has actually gotten much better than when it first came […]

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Thursday Podcast Roundup, December 3rd

Sorry for the lack of news this week, pretty rough as my car totally died. BUT, no way I was going to leave you to the weekend without some great home theater podcasts to entertain you! Enjoy!   Seen in HD Episode 14 – Watchmen review, BD Audio: To enhance or not Full of turkey, Seen in HD returns for […]

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Plasma TV “Burn-In”: Fact or Myth?

Nobody knows TVs like the HD Guru® so it’s great to see him point the microscope at burn-in.  Check out the myth busting, and find another reason to give your plasma a hug when you get home.   HD Guru® continues to receive reader email asking whether modern plasma panels have “burn-in” problems. Given the amount of misinformation still spewed […]

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Replacing the VFD in an Ahanix D4

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I have an older Ahanix D4 case housing my main HTPC, one of the main reasons I bought this case over some of the completion was that it was one of the few full ATX cases with a parallel port (LPT) based Vacuum Florescent Display (VFD) at the time.  Recently the display started to fade and some pixels have gone […]

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Weekly Podcast Roundup November 25th

Hey Everyone, to get you ready for all those long roadtrips for Thanksgiving I decided to post the weekly podcast roundup a bit earlier. Drive safe and hopefully your family doesn’t mind listening to these sexy podcasts!   Seen in HD Episode 13 – More Black Friday, UP review and more This week on Seen in HD we prepare for […]

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Two new Media Center apps – Stocks and Twitter fun

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Two new MCE plugins have been released for your enjoyment, one for monitoring your twitter and the other for managing the stock market.   TheDigitalLifestyle Two new Media Center apps have been released in the last couple of day from OABsoftware. Media Center Twitter is a twitter addin for Windows Media Center that enables you to tweet and keep up […]

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Free Day is January 7th, 2010!

Maybe this should just be sent to the Hot Deals section but I thought this was kinda cool.  For those of you that like to build your own electronics, SparkFun is basically giving away upto $100 worth of stuff (per address) to people on Jan 7th.  All you have to do is pay for shipping.  Sounds like a great deal […]

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