Tag: Community News

Pretty interesting article from Sean Alexander, not the most frequent blogger but they’re often well thought out when they do come out.   In the past two years, the industry has seen rapid adoption of H.264 as an HD-ready alternative for consumer electronics and web-based experiences.  Many articles have been written regarding the pros/cons of the H.264 licensing terms which […]

Ben got it right "Oh man this sucks"   Oh man this sucks — just got word that Ceton has once again delayed the release of its InfiniTV 4CableCARD tuner. [Engadget HD]   While disappointing, it happens. I’m more concerned with Ceton procuring reliable parts then rushing to production.

Antec Fusion has been around for a while, and is a quality case which I know many people have used. Here’s a nice review of it as a refresher.       When we first took a look into this chassis, we wondered how hard it would be to install an optical drive. Antec probably figured this may be an […]

The wait for SageTV V7 should be over soon as Brent is reporting that the public beta starts tomorrow.  The change log is long so it’s definitly worth a full look.  Highlights include a new UI and BDMV/ISO support on the PC.   Probably on the most-requested list for SageTV developers is a re-write of the user interface.  The SageTV […]

Another day, another version of Mythtv is now available.  🙂  This one expands on the new UI rewrite that was done in 0.22 and adds some new features like MythNetVision.  One thing that I noticed in the announcement on the Mythtv website related to 0.24: If all goes according to plan, MythTV 0.24 will bring a new MythUI OSD, a […]

I’m sure most of us here are already using a lot of the plugins on this list, but it’s a nice starting point for newer users who may not be aware of some of these options. Due to the popularity of our (fairly outdated) top five plugins post here at Hack7MC let’s take a look at some of the new […]

  VLSI Solution has today announced VSIDE – the Integrated Development Environment for VSDSP Processor Family. [NeonDrum]  

  Selectable Output Control is a technology mandate promoted by movie studios to protect the “early” distribution of movies over cable television. It’s a battle over the video outputs on the back of your cable box or DVR. Who gets to control which outputs you can use—the movie studios or you? On May 7, 2010 the FCC decided that the […]

More choice is good. Now the wait is on for the first reviews and how it stacks up against the Ceton card.   What you’re looking at here is a picture of the board that makes the new HDHomeRun CableCARD tuner work. You might notice the four squares on the right, those are the tuners, yes there are four — […]

Any article with "WTF" in the title has to be good. When it’s the HD Guru looking at what a display has to go through to get THX certified, and what that means – even better.   THX certification assures buyers a high quality high definition display. TV makers can’t pass the rigid specifications by using low quality LCD or […]