Free TIVO Cookie Cutter

Free from Tivo. A TIVO cookie cutter, what a great gift! 🙂 I would never buy one, but heck if they are gonna give me one what do i have to lose.   Provide us your contact information in the form below and we’ll send out your very own TiVo® cookie cutter for Free! And, then send us photos of […]

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How to Stream Audio & Video in your Home

This certainly isn’t the most comprehensive article on media distribution options but it does hit a couple of options for products to buy.   But while more and more PC users are turning to their computer to collect and store all of this digital content, sitting around the desktop in your den isn’t the most comfortable way to enjoy it. […]

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Monster Cable Bullying

This is a page on the site for a mini-golf course that happens to be named Monster Mini-Golf.  As they seem to do a lot, Monster Cable sued them.  But they didn’t buckle and they’re fighting back.  They need all the publicity and press and help they can get.    So now….it’s on to trial!As you might expect, it’s going […]

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New Sage Beta 6.5.3

New Beta for Sage is out!   Among the interesting features, Sage now supports 720p youtube videos, multithreaded transcoding, and a slew of other bug fixes. I’ll be sure to test drive it tonight!    Core Updates 1. Various improvements to SageTVTranscoder and SageTVPlayer (for HDPVR support and other bugs encountered in 6.5.1/2) 2. Movies that have the ‘Premiere’ attribute […]

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SageTV Extender Connects to Playon

This is a pretty big find, SageTV just confirmed that the HD Theater connector will connect to a playon server. This is not terribly surprising because in stand alone mode, the extender supports connecting to a UPnP server. No need for a PS3 or 360 to get connected :). What is playon? PlayOn enables consumers who own a PLAYSTATION 3, […]

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myTV christmas special – tis the time to be jolly

  Purchase myTV anytime between December 1st – 25th and you’ll automatically be entered into a boxing day draw for a brand new Seagate Barracuda 7200.11 1500GB harddrive. We will also randomly pick out one new customer per day who will receive a full refund on their payment – as in, you’ll get a completely free license to myTV to […]

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Sling.com Opens Its Doors

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It was only a matter of time before a Hulu competitor showed up to the TV portal race and Sling did it in a big way :). Sling Media has partnered with several providers including Hulu (NBC & Fox) to bring a pretty big lineup of content to its portal. The official press release can be found here and lists […]

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Ars Ultimate Home Theater PC Guide: 1080p HDMI Edition

Not a bad article which covers several aspects of planning a HTPC install.   It has been over three and a half years since the HTPC has gone mainstream. Today, the HTPC front-end is fairly well established, with a slick interface and a compact, living-room-friendly form factor, and it’s reliable enough that you rarely notice it’s there. Toss in working HDMI for […]

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Public Service Announcement: MSI DIVA + CableCARD

Chris Morley has a public service announcement regarding CableCards and the MSI DIVA platform. In short, it won’t work with CableCards unless you are an OEM.   he MSI motherboard has the table built in for the AMD/MS OEM partners to put in their CableLabs information to enable playback of digital cable content including encrypted QAM content.  However, this table […]

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