Tag: Community News

This is old news but I didn’t see it posted here on MR yet.  Pioneer is ending production of its Kuro line of PDPs.  Agruably the Kuro was the standard by which all FPs would judged.    After confirming back in February that they would be exiting the plasma TV business this year, Pioneer have outlined their release and withdrawal […]

I always enjoy reading what Chris has to say, and I must say he’s spot on here. Fuze was great in theory, and it’s sad to see them go…hopefully the lessons learned can be passed on to current/future Media Center companies.   They spent their money and resources on developing a wrapper for Vista Media Center that only slightly expanded […]

Very informative article if you want to learn some of the differences. I’m going deaf, so irrelevant for me, but if you still have your hearing, give it a whirl!   So how much do you have to spend to get a good system in the eyes (ears?) of an audiophile? Definitive recommends $1000 for a home-theater component setup. (In […]

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This isn’t really directly related to HTPCs but I thought that it was a very interesting comparison.  I think it’s worth a look.   The only question is whether or not one can justify the purchase of what can only be described as a very expensive and relatively small hard disk drive. On one hand, both iRam and ANS-9010 are […]

Through some confirmed rumors it looks like there is a new zune on the way to compete with the ipod touch.  One of the few features known as this time seems to be a display with a 1.85:1 aspect ratio.  I’m sure the CIH nuts out there will appreciate that.   Uh. Looks like something is happening — big time […]

Here’s another board that I’d like to get my hands on.  This review only does MPEG2, MPEG4 and 720p video clips but it looks to still be a nice board for an HTPC client system.   Now it’s down to the rear I/O ports. ZOTAC has done an even better job on this board than any previous ITX offering. First […]

I would still love to get my hands on one of these Nvidia ION platforms.  Here’s another article that covers the reference platform.  They run some benchmarks on it, play some games, then run some video clips, followed up with some power measurements.  All in all, not a bad review.   I downloaded and ran the 1080P trailer for the […]

I don’t think this would ever replace the main front end home theater apps such as SageTV, Media Portal, VMC, etc. but i would love to see it as a possible view option to navigate your media within those applications.   A scrollable 3D ribbon displays all a user’s local media, pulled directly from their hard drive, removable USB or […]

XBMC Update Finally a way to easily upgrade your win32 build to the most current 3rd party SVN builds. There is a plan to integrate it into XBMC with a script, so it can all be triggered from within the XBMC UI. But it’s a good start.   [XBMCUpdate]