Tag: Community News

Rumors of a native Media Center driver for the HD PVR have been circulating since before Fiji.  As we all know that never happened – talking about the driver here, Fiji just shouldn’t have happened ;).  Looks like it might not be vapor after all because GeekTonic is reporting that Windows 7 Media Center users won’t have to rely on […]

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Driver updates aren’t news that often, but AMD/ATI video cards have consistently taken a PR beating in the community when it comes to H.264/AVC profile L5.1 support.  Looks like AMD finally added the feature to Catalyst 10.4 for all the l33t bittorrenters and x264 archivers out there.   ATI Catalyst – Video enhancements H.264 Level 5.1 support ATI Catalyst can […]

The guys over at The Digital Media Zone sure like to talk.  Looks like Adam (Entertainment 2.0) and James (Seen in 3D) have started up another podcast – this time about movies.  I’ll let them explain the details:   Welcome to the first episode of The Movie Podcast. This show is for all of your content junkies out there. Each […]

Vail, WHS v2, is available for public testing.  I installed yesterday but haven’t played with it much yet.  Have you tried it yet?  Let us know what your thoughts are, I’ll be adding mine tonight.     Windows Home Server V2 (Vail) Part 1 April 26, 2010 — Matthew Glover ITS HERE! Your first chance to see the new public preview […]

This is going to cost me for sure. Whre is a good place to get a decent sized touchscreen? How long before someone mods a coffeee table or sticks a display in a wall using non OEM setups.   After a long wait of almost a year, Microsoft has announced this week that the Touch Pack for Windows 7 is […]

Late last night (or early morning) Travis Bell released themoviedb v2!  If you are not familiar with tmdb it is an open, community driven, movie database.  Chances are you’ve used it one way or another, either directly or via any number of the tools that use it for metadata and artwork. Travis has been working on v2 for quite some […]

Well I remember reading about Ryan’s initial implementation of Winscape in Jan 2005 Popular Science.  Every few months I’ve checked his blog and to my surprise Uncrate featured the latest edition today.   I’d rather have a "real" view of a beach or skyline but that isn’t happening anytime soon so a very cool project, worth checking out.    After lots of […]

For the last 2 years I’ve said the next TV I buy will hopefully be OLED.  Maybe I’m dreaming but this is hopeful.  Too small to be practical but double that I’ll have a nice primary PC monitor.  Too bad the my favorite part of the article is: "let’s just assume they’re prohibitively expensive."  If you really want to get […]

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