Ian Dixon is always hard at work putting together great information for the Media Center Community. Most recently, he put together a video showing how to setup an HP Windows Home Server. The value added software that you get with the HP server such as photo sharing and iTunes software really make it a smart investment over a DIY WHS […]
Read moreElectronic House has published a great article about the various audio formats. Electronic House Believe it or not, there was a time when surround sound was a novelty. Here’s a look back at its origin, advances and latest hi-def formats.
Read moreI am very happy to announce that after bribing every Microsoft employee on up to Bill Gates himself, I was awarded a 2008 Microsoft MVP Award for Vista Media Center. I would just like to say thank you to Microsoft for this fine award! I hope to keep MissingRemote.com full of great guides and useful information for the Media Center […]
Read moreThis is the news I have been waiting for, a member of the Australia MCE community has released a plugin that will allow you to cusomtize the VMC start menu. The plugin will allow you to add two custom strips and add a tile to the currently pre-isntalled strips. This will allow me to move alot of my favorite plugins […]
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Recently I’ve been pondering more and more what makes a good HDTV set. I pulled out my excellent Oppo 981HD and found that I should recalibrate my TV, however my quite basic 3 year old LCD TV is not able to save essential things like contrast and brightness per input. It groups the inputs. All the standard definition (composite, s-video, component #1) inputs […]
Read morehttp://registration.hauppauge.com/webstore/hardware2.asp?product=hd_pvr Get it while the getting is good. I can only imagine that demand will be rather high! There is absolutely no mention of what software it supports at this point! I would think that initally you will only get support for Hauppage’s own software. SageTV and BeyondTV shouldn’t be far behind though. Update: Brent Evans has confirmed that BeyondTV and SageTV […]
Read moreWhen I mentioned a couple of weeks ago that we would have start our quarterly systems guide, I really meant that these are the types of guides that suck the very soul out of me. I have changed scope so many times that I want to throw my half finished document off a cliff and go from there. So I […]
Read moreGood news for WHS users! A public beta of the forthcoming Power Pack 1 is set to hit the public in may. Power Pack 1 includes the fix to the possible data corruption bug that can affects a small set of users. We Got Server Should you wish to be part of the public beta in May, visit http://connect.microsoft.com/WindowsHomeServer to […]
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One of the oft-promoted, but rarely used portions of Vista’s Media Center is their Online Spotlight applications. If you have no idea what I’m talking about, it’s because it’s fairly well hidden. From the Media Center start menu, it’s under Online Media, and then Explore. Kinda jumps out at you, eh? But given the history of it, along with even […]
Read moreHauppauge has gone and made the HD-PVR all official like with its very own product page. Below you will find the specs for what is considered the Holy Grail of the DIY HTPC builder. This will have a huge impact for HTPC software, such as SageTV, that choose to support this software. No longer will you have to go directly […]
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