The products in today’s quicky review are the Zalman CNPS8700 LED low-profile all copper CPU cooler and the Zalman VF900-Cu VGA cooler. Both heat sinks are radial-finned heatsink coolers made for the quiet computing enthusiast. Or in our case :), the HTPC enthusiast. Zalman has been well known around these parts because of their CNPS7000 series of CPU coolers; lets see if they […]
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I recall the days when the government passed a bill back which forced the cable companies to play fair and allow for users to access the entire library of channels with the use of a Cable Card. The idea was simple: Cable Companies have a monopoly on regions and services for cable television, and were essentially forcing users to rent […]
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With the latest beta release of SageTV 6.4.6 along with a beta version of the HDHomeRun software and firmware, it is now possible to natively tune QAM channels. This means that the artificial 68 channel limit imposed by the previous mapping method is no longer an issue. For those with a HDHomeRun that would like to pursue native QAM […]
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Well, it’s official. I now have a Mythtv frontend running under Windows. It’s not all peaches and cream though. Right now it’s just the frontend software running. I don’t have any plugins going, and the backend is running on my linux server. The frontend is now working well enough that I have it connected to the tv and the AV […]
Read moreIan covers a plethora of topics and brings in an expert from HP to discuss the latest Power Pack release for Windows Home Server which fixes the nasty data corruption bug. Show Times: 00:50 Coming up this week 01:37 Email – Which Extender has the best WAF 03:45 Email – Media Center on Windows Server 2008? 04:10 Ed Bott on […]
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Welcome to another exciting episode of my life. When last you saw, our daring young hero (me) was struggling to get video drivers working under Linux that would actually allow video playback in Mythtv to run smoothly. We’re talking your run-of-the-mill, standard def content. After struggling with it for a week, I decided to move on to Virtualization so that […]
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Video podcasts within your Media Center simply make SENSE! It makes so much sense, that even Microsoft developed their own application to let you enjoy some online programming, for free–Internet TV Beta. That being said, Internet TV really is more of a "push" technology, with very little customization. As opposed to TVTonic, which is geared entirely around full user control […]
Read moreWelcome to another edition of the world famous Daily Button. Thanks to our sponsor cyberestore,com for making this happen. You can check out cyberestore for your tuner card needs (HDHomeRun or Dual ATSC\QAM Fusion 7 tuner?), or your HTPC case needs . Along with all of the HTPC goodness, they also have accessories such as reasonably priced cables, coax connectors, […]
Read moreAMD/ATI has realeased updated drivers for their line of graphics cards. The new Catalyst 8.7 drivers include lots of bug fixes, but the list of known unresolved bugs is still lengthy in the Release Notes . This may solve problems for you as there are a number of fixes to areas of HTPC concern such as HDMI, 1080i/720p resolutions, extended/cloned […]
Read moreThe WHS team has released Power Pack 1 :). Nothing too major in this first pack but the nasty data corruption bug got fixed and a few performance tweaks are kicking around. Other notables include X64 support, backup of shared folders and more efficient power consumption. Link As many know, Power Pack 1 provides a range of new enhancements, including […]
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