This is pretty funny/sad considering how large HP is, yet how they haven’t been able to do what smaller companies have/are doing. I wouldn’t personally buy an HP system, but having a big player like that support a technology is always helpful. Chris Lanier Well, that might not be the exact reason. According to commenter Tony, he purchased an HP […]
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Looks like after years of being the only player in town, Gyration finally has some competition. Would be curious to pit the two head to head to see which is king for controlling your HTPC from across the room…Alan??? 🙂 Engadget The Air Mouse attempts to bridge the gap between mouse and remote control with a touch-sensitive scroll-panel (instead of […]
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With all the changes to the HDMI standard, I’m not sure how much one should get excited about spending the fortune on a new receiver with the latest standard…but nonetheless, it’s still a pretty impressive receiver at a reasonable price. Gizmodo At this $800 price point you won’t see an array of four HDMI inputs—there are just two HDMI inputs, […]
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As UMPCs become smaller, lighter & more affordable, it’s a natural transition to want to use them in a Media Center/Home environment. If you consider how much fancy remotes cost, the cost of a full blown UPMC really isn’t that much…and with software like this, soon it’ll be even more powerful. Chris Lanier Mirage will allow two-way control of Media […]
Read moreThursday, woooot! Time for Ian’s show. Windows Mobile up this time, see how it interacts with your Media Center. The Media Center Show This week Steven Hughes a Windows Mobile MVP joins me to talk about Windows Mobile devices. We talk about Windows Mobile 6, mobile devices and how to get your Media Center content on to your mobile device. […]
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July 1, 2007 — Vista View introduces the Saber DA-1N1-I TM TV Tuner card. This card fills the need for a high quality Combo TV tuner with hardware encoding that Vista and Media Center enthusiasts have been waiting for. The Saber DA-1N1-I is a low profile combo tuner. It combines two high quality tuners on one small card. The Saber […]
Read moreThe Tech Report has an excellent review of the Radeon HD 2400 and 2600 series, they include metrics important to HTPC users including tests of the decoding abilties, HD image quality, power consumption, and noise. The Tech Report The Radeon HDs may have good reason for consuming a few more CPU cycles and a little more power than the GeForces in […]
Read moreInteresting to say the least. But with so many people already owning DVR/PVR’s in their homes, are consumers really asking for something like this that will increase the cost of the unit? TV Squad Pause TV would most likely use flash memory, although it could also be hard drive based. A TV tuner and flash memory would be integrated into […]
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Have $900 to drop on a remote control? I’m not sure high end customers like that would think about Philips…but who knows! Pretty nifty remote, but I still can’t get over that price. Gizmodo No worries, the TSU9400 is equipped with 2.4GHz wireless capabilities to operate your home theatre without line-of-sight. The 64MB of onboard memory will remember all of […]
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Not the sexiest box in the world, but this isn’t the final version. And plus, I think you’d take it when compared to the more expensive S3. But my question is, if this thing retails at less than $300, who would buy the S3 anymore for $600+?? Gizmodo A tipster sent us these spy pics of what he says is […]
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