Tag: Community News

MSI is getting in on the HTPC/HDMI action.  It’s not a silent card and so it has a small fan, which is hopefully nice and quiet.   MSI’s R4600 HDMI’s entire series has native HDMI output to allow direct connection of your pc with hi-def TVs, monitors and projectors. Supporting full HD at a resolution of 1920×1080, this card presents […]

While these cases are too tall for my own taste, many people must like them, since there are a lot of similarly "large" HTPC cases.  However, what immediately stole my attention was the 4 bay, hot swap, RAID cage on the front of the PC-C34F.  Very interesting design choice.  I’m wondering about cooling, vibration, and overall noise now.   The […]

I for one have been waiting for this!  Even tho I’m using a IR-BT adapter that an avsforum member made for the PS3 in the home theater, so my Harmony 1000 could control the PS3 too.  However, it can’t turn on the PS3 when I hit Watch Movies (have to push the PS3 on/off button), nor it will turn it […]

If you’re in the market for a new HTPC case, techspot did a roundup of some nice ones.   One of the greatest challenges a HTPC faces is fitting in with the rest of your living room equipment, and this burden is placed at large on the case. Besides good looks, the case must operate at a reasonable volume and […]

Amazingly useful article if you’re considering an SSD as an OS drive for any application.   I spent about three weeks working on my review of Intel’s X25-M SSD.  Most of that was research and writing and re-writing to not only review the product but also to talk about the rest of the SSDs in the marketplace and their deficiencies. […]

I love these types of articles, and it’s always interesting to see how other websites approach this ever popular HTPC biz we so love.   I will examine each of these in more detail in the following pages. You may be somewhat surprised to see the motherboard so low on the list. Most of the time you’ll see that as […]

Not sure how much more I really need to say, a fairly amusing list depending on where in the "geek" spectrum you fall. I could *only* identify with 5 of the 10 listed…wonder how the rest of you score 😛   It’s tough enough to find decent geeky shows on TV these days; think of how much worse it would […]

Microsoft Just started the third annual home design, Something made more for Companies than for individuals HTPC hobbyists. a good place to look to see how the top end homes are using HTPC and Home Automation   Microsoft has announced the 2009 Windows Media Center Ultimate Install Contest, the third iteration of the industry design contest that promotes Windows Media […]

If you’re a Home Theater PC enthusast or just trying to learn more about them, you’ll find this episode of the HTPCentric Podcast worth a listen. I joined some Media Center and SageTV users on a roundtable where we discussed and debated the merits ofthe two HTPC software programs throwing in many great things (and a few pet peeves) about […]

Lee David Jones has a really great article up on TheDigitalLifestyle website that basically pits Media Portal HTPC Software (free) against the ever powerful Windows Media Center. I hadn’t used Media Portal in years, so it was great to see how much they’ve grown since then.   To compare the two, I’d say that MediaPortal is on par, if not […]