Thanks to bjterry62 for finding a couple of great news articles on AMD's upcoming chipset, the 690G. As he mentions in his forum post, the 690G is expected to have HDCP and H.264 acceleration making this a dream board for Media Center PCs! ExtremeTech article: The 690G chipset is made up of the AMD RS690G north bridge and the AMD […]
Read moreAs you can tell, we have a new navigation system in place of the two popular and recent forum post sections that were there before. So? What do you think? :). We are inching ever closer to MissingRemote Version 2.0. We aren't ones to do a bunch of fixes and release them all at one point. As we come up […]
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Those of you who have used MyMovies I'm sure have used AnyDVD, and will happy to know they've got a new beta version out. It's a great program that allows you to rip & store your OWNED 😉 DVDs to your Hard Drive. I heard if you put in a Netflix DVD it makes your computer explode. Here are some […]
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Pardon the brash google-translation, but the jist is this is another 5.1 speaker in a single speaker. I've never heard one personally, but always was skeptical of these. Anyone have experience? Sound faces to the remote control operator, “the my beam (MyBeam)” adjusting to function and the room, being automatic, it does, sound field adjustment it is the new product […]
Read moreYou all know what this is, Ian's infamous podcast 🙂 This week up he's talking to the European Development Center guy at Microsoft. So check it out! Show Times 00:32 Coming up this week 01:02 Questions regarding Show #94 03:13 Winner of Forum thread of the week 03:48 Next weeks winner gets Pamaela Pro + mcePhone Bundle 04:10 New Forums, […]
Read moreTaipei, Taiwan—-February 15, 2007—-CyberLink Corp. (5203.TW), a world leader in digital home solutions, today released CyberLink Software Encoder 1.1, for enabling real-time MPEG-2 TV recording via Windows Vista Media Center. CyberLink Software Encoder 1.1 offers native 64-bit support for PCs using the Windows Vista operating system. Benefits include: – Better multi-tasking with less loading on system resources – Access to more memory […]
Read moreBeing the die hard HTPC fan I am, I don't have a TiVo in my house for a couple of reasons. My wife will like it better then the HTPC I will find out I like it better then the HTPC.. scary.. The goal of this release is to bring S3 up to the same feature set the S2 has. […]
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I was asked recently by some friends, "Why is concurrent sessions so important that you cry about it every time we talk about Vista?" (you can imagine, the friends I speak of are MVPs or MVP-related. For those unaware of the issue I'm referring to, there was a hack for Windows XP that allowed you to have a feature that […]
Read moreThe Atom C.5 loudpseaker is the lowest priced member of the Paradign monitor series. Not to say they are cheap, it will still cost over $800 to outfit a complete home theater. The monitor series is known for their high efficiency which suggest they should play louder with less power. I was pretty surprised to see the reviewer rave about […]
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It's not fair, the author of the Onkyo review used my trickle down tech intro. Ok, it's not mine, however, it is true that budget receivers have many features that only a year or two ago would have cost you a great deal more. Feature wise, at least in my opinion, the Onkyo gets it right. They include an automated […]
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