Tag: Community News

Adam and Josh from the Digital Media Zone started up a Stack Overflow style site for some Home Theater Q/A.  I think Adam said it best in his intro, so I’ll let him explain:   This isn’t your typical discussion forum.  Most questions have definitive answers, not opinions and so you don’t find the bickering and flame wars that you […]

I’m still a fan of 3D stuff.  I think that the big thing will be that content creaters need to create good content in order to make it take off.  Here’s a look at what Nvidia is doing on the hardware side of things.   But 3D gaming was just a foot in the door for NVIDIA’s 3D Vision product […]

I don’t know if anyone else out there is looking forward to 3DTV but I think that it could be a very cool thing if content creaters use it properly.  It is expected to be the main focus of CES in 2010.  We’ll have to wait and see.  Until then, read this article.   And it seems a certainty that […]

  Panasonic’s PT-AE4000 looks like the same big, grey shoebox the brand has been touting as a projector for the last three years. Indeed, there’s no visible difference between this and the outgoing PT-AE3000, but for good reason – it’s a shoebox with a remarkably successful lineage and exquisite picture quality. […]   A worthy successor I’ve been impressed by […]

Looks like Redbox may be getting some competition soon?   The chain, which is slashing its store count by nearly a quarter in 2010, hopes to bolster its brand by installing fleets of DVD-dispensing machines in mundane locations such as supermarket lobbies, and the $1-a-night fee is certainly head-turning. A partnership with cash register company NCR is an attack on Redbox, as the kiosks are […]

Just in time for Christmas we have a new Haali MKV splitter.  The release notes only claim support for TrueHD, but DTS-MA seems to output correctly as well. For everyone looking to store HD audio without transcoding to FLAC, this looks like what we’ve been waiting for. Go get the bits and let us know how it’s working for you.  […]

I just noticed that Core AVC 2.0 was officially released. I only have my netbook handy but I installed it on there and w/ an Ion GPU I am impressed.   After 9 months of work the CoreCodec Team is proud to release CoreAVC 2.0. 2.0 features the following:* Supports Windows 7* 32/64 bit Support* NVIDIA CUDA GPU support* Supports […]

Sporting lowered power consumption and a slight speed increase Intel’s latest rev of the Atom looks like a winner for the websurfing netbook crowd.  But unfortunatley there isn’t much for those searching for the perfect passive ITX build.   The integrated GMA 3150 graphics hasn’t been used by Intel before, it’s a 45nm shrink of the GMA 3100. It’s technically […]

Just installed on my Asrock Ion330 and its working a treat !!!   The testing process is winding down, and we are happy to present XBMC 9.11 Release Candidate 1. Assuming there are no major show-stoppers, we expect that this will be the last pre-release before final [http://xbmc.org/]  

  Targeting HTPC aficionado’s, Enermax rolled out its Aurora Micro Wireless keyboard. The Aurora Micro is absolutely an interesting product for the average cough potato alright (me included). Not only is it the best HTPC keyboard’s we’ve seen in a while, it’s also reasonably priced (for this kind of quality). When you search this product you’ll be able to spot […]