Tag: Community News

Competition for MonoPrice perhaps? I wonder how good the quality of their cables will be.   With AmazonBasics, the online retail giant is jumping headfirst into the consumer electronics space with its own private line of low-cost accessories. The products are all packaged in "frustration free" packaging, and include HDMI cables, Ethernet cords, and blank DVDs, to name a few. […]

I would love a controller like this for Windows Media Center that lets you browse the internet in a 10′ interface.  Most of my web surfing is from my favorites / bookmarks, no keyboard needed.   The remote control has many similarities to Nintendo’s Wii game controller, which is now familiar to millions of children and adults. The uWand contains […]

Okoro Media Systems is releasing a new 64Bit HTPC with 4TB of Hot-Swappable storage and a SSD drive for the OS. They are also giving away a "Cherry Red" HTPC with a Blu-ray drive, 2TB of storage, and 64GB SSD drive to one lucky winner. Visit www.okoromedia.com to enter.   Okoro Media Systems Releases 64Bit BX300 Digital Entertainment System Okoro […]

For those using SageTV on Windows 7 theres a new beta demuxer that works with the OOTB Microsoft video decoder.  Good news for us, bad for Cyberlink and ArcSoft; but they’ve been treating us badly so I don’t feel too bad :). Even if you’re not using 7 there’s good stuff there, so get installing.    Here is a new […]

Microsoft dropped the 360 update today that adds full game downloads, overhauled Netflix support with support for full browsing and party mode, and a few other small improvements.   [Xbox.com]  

Logitech definitely seems to (finally) be stepping up their game and bringing something to market that might actually "compete" with Universal Remote’s offerings on a more affordable scale.  I was actually considering shelling out the big bucks for a Universal Remote setup, but this Logitech might actually sway me.   The device ships with an IR blaster and two "mini […]

To anyone who has the money to blow on this speaker, let alone an entire 5.1 setup…  Wanna adopt me?  In all seriousness, clearly, this is not aimed at the home audio/video afficionado, nor even home theater builders.  Impressive, nonetheless.   The Ultimate is a rather large speaker–each one consists of six, seven-foot tall panels. Each Ultimate houses a total […]

James over at SlySoft just posted an update to Reclock.  For those who don’t know Reclock is an alternate sound renderer (and one of my favoriate HTPC addins) that amoung many other features enables exclusive mode access to the audio device using WASAPI, which makes it the best way to get noise off your PC.   1.8.4.6 – 03/08/2009 * […]

Another good comparison guide for receivers from Audioholics.  I’m mad they don’t have my favorite brand in there, Onkyo, but they don’ t have any new receivers at this price point.   There are surprising variations even among the most notable and well established groups. While we expected Denon and Yamaha to be nearly identical, they most certainly were not. […]

UltimateAVmag.com goes out on a limb to declare Coraline on Blu-ray the best video presentation in 2009, and perhaps even ever.  They go on to rate both the video and audio presentations on the disk a perfect 10.  Could this be your next demo disk?  To make it even sweeter, it is family friendly demo material.   Every intricate feature […]