TV Tonic 64-bit has arrived

64-bit users of Vista Media Center rejoice! The makers of the TVTonic plugin has heard your complaints and have released a 64-bit version of their plugin! Go ahead and get your download on and enjoy the Olympics! TV Tonic You asked for it, we listened. Our developers worked around the clock to make the 64-bit version of TVTonic available for […]

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Omaura North America Shut Its Doors

The short and troubled history of Omaura has hit another road block. Chris Morley has officially let the world know that he has ended his relationship with his partners. More information can be found here on his blog post On the bright side, Chris is now free to do what he does best.. develop kick ass media center PCs.  Chris […]

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babgvant swtiches to SageTV

I have been meaning to post this for awhile now but I just never got around to it. babgvant was a pretty active developer for the Vista MCE community and has recently switched to Sage due to their active development cycle. The link I just gave will provide the full rundown. He has already began active development for SageTV with […]

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Live Q & A with Mike Garcen

Our man with the microphone, the ever impressive Mike Garcen, will be on Ian Dixon’s famous podcast for a Live Q&A session. I dare anyone to ask if Mike records "Adult shows" ;). Mike does a great job and I encourage you to head on over and listen to this session. Ian Dixon’s announcement Just remember, I tought him everything […]

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MPAA: Don’t limit our ability to close analog outputs

Everyone’s favorite trade group is at it again! This time they want the ability to shut down analog connections on set top boxes for specific events. The group mentions that this will give the security needed to allow providers to show movies before the appear on DVD. It certainly doesn’t take a genius to figure out that this clearly falls […]

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Life With a Plugin, Episode 13: TVTonic Olympics

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Ok, so I know that I just recently covered TVTonic , but then they went ahead and released probably the coolest and well implemented plugin in all of Media Center–Olympics!! If you haven’t already noticed, Vista Media Center (U.S. only, sorry international folks) now has under it’s Online Spotlight, a central icon for the Olympics. Clicking on that link entered […]

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SageTV 6 On CentOS 5

SageTV CentOS 5 Install Guide

  A while back I mentioned that I was in the process of possibly switching from MythTV to SageTV.  I want to keep the main server running Linux because I feel it is a more stable environment than Windows.  Plus, due to the low OS overhead, it allows me to continue using an older PC.  The down side to all […]

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D-Link DSM-330 DivX Connected Extender

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DivX made its name as the first truly popular way to pirat…err….watch compressed movies over your computer. It caused tons of hassles for those of us who had built lower powered HTPC’s, only to have lip sync or stuttering problems as our poor left over 400MHz CPU’s could not handle it. My how times have changed… DivX is arguably the defacto […]

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