Pretty good insight from a head honcho at Best Buy…well, at least it was until he tried to claim that the new 3D glasses were fashionable. Twice He added that most TVs next year will be embedded with some type of an IP-enabled feature, giving the family room, bedroom or den “the third screen everyone talks about.” And the Best […]
Read moreWe talk about living room PC’s all the time, but this is a completely different interpretation of a living room PC. From the looks of these pics, it looks like a tiny little family has moved into this warm and cozy computer living room and set up their home. The PC Living Room (or is that Living Room PC) […]
Read moreThese new mini htpcs start at $1295.00. Okoro Media’s new miniature Quantum series Media PCs Rosemont, IL (PRWEB) September 28, 2009 — Okoro Media Systems, a manufacturer of Digital Entertainment Systems for the A/V market, introduces the availability of the 2010 Quantum mini Digital Entertainment Systems OMS-Q100 and the OMS-Q200. The 2010 Quantum minis are small Digital Entertainment […]
Read moreHey guys. I’m still trying to decide what to do with my development system that crashed a few months ago. Until I figure that out I thought I would test out a couple of Mythtv based Linux distributions. So over the next few weeks I hope to do some installs of Mythdora, Mythbuntu and LinHES/Knoppmyth and report back on how […]
Read moreew Desktop Model Features up to 8TB Capacity, Energy Efficient Marvell 800Mhz CPU, 256MB of DDRII Memory, and Support for 2.5" and 3.5" Hard Drives Taiwan, Taipei, October 2009 – QNAP Systems, Inc., a leading manufacturer of world class NAS servers, NVR Video Surveillance Systems, and Network-based Video Players today expanded their Turbo NAS lineup with the addition of […]
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ASUS AT3N7A-I Motherboard Review Few platforms have been as anticipated by the small form factor (SFF) HTPC community as Nvidia’s ION. Combining the low power Atom CPU with a full featured mobile integrated graphics processor (IGP) capable of Blu-ray 1080p hardware decoding and multi-channel lossless audio seems like the perfect solution for those looking for a low power, but […]
Read moreDanimal1969 let us in on this little (yet SUPER important) news announcement which is very relevant to our little world here, as for the longest time we have been unable to smoothly play back Hulu or other flash-based content on ION and other low-powered units since the hardware accelleration was not working properly. Good to hear everyone worked together to […]
Read moreNow this gets me excited and some definite thinking outside the box! And who would have guessed it would come from Sony? Just think about the power mess that could be avoided with such a technology! I think it’s still a whiles away, but still good to imagine of things to come. Crunchgear The system is still in experiment stage, […]
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I think this definitely classifies as drool-worthy. No word yet on when it hits the states, but you can almost count on it not having as many features as this one announced in Japan. Gizmodo Toshiba’s first TV with the PS3 Cell processor it helped develop has seriously kick-ass specs. For starters: The 55-incher’s LED backlighting divides the 240Hz […]
Read moreThis is another one of those things that will probably happen, but I’m not all that excited. But I am not opposed to improving the overall features of our displays, especially if the cost is minimal–similar to how Blu-ray players now all seem to include online video technology integrated. i4U According to research firm Gigaom 3DTV shipments are set to […]
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