Tag: Community News

In case you’re interested in which online video services are around today, here’s a round up of those expected to make it long term.   With more than a dozen services competing for the same eyeballs, a shakeout is pretty much inevitable, though. Here’s our guide to eight contenders with the best prospects for long-term survival. Amazon Video on Demand, […]

Big change was to take step back to the 6.4.8 demux.  Which is unfortunate, becuased the newer version make comskip much more accurate for me.  Although, it was at the price of stability.   We’re (still) in the Release Candidate stage for V6.5. We regressed the demux back to the V6.4 version which should resolve the stability problems some people […]

For those trying to keep up with todays tuners, here’s a USB offering from ASUS that does ATSC and QAM.   At $50-$60, it’s at about the same price as its competition. I also liked the ArcSoft TotalMedia software that came with the tuner. However, there’s a wealth of free and open source software available for use as well as […]

Always sad to see a major chain fail, especially one that employs over 30,000 people.  Still this may be a chance to score some deals on HT equipment.  I’ll be on the lookout for a medium sized flatpanel for the bedroom.   Liquidation sales begin as early as Saturday, January 17, 2009, and will last as long as it takes […]

Not to get everyone’s hopes up again, but has anyone else seen this?   Aw, snap! Just over a month after DirecTV went and killed its totally promising HDPC-20 tuner, in flies this. DISH Network is apparently gearing up to unveil some sort of HD-capable DISH-to-Windows Media Center liaison, with current test setups involving a modified ViP 211K receiver attached […]

If you’re like me, you’ve upgraded the hard drive in your HTPC a few times and now have some spares laying around with no way to connect them.  In that case, you need to get yourself an external enclosure.  Today Club Overclocker is reviewing a new offering from Vantec.   Vantec shows once again that they build some pretty awesome […]

Are you wondering if W7CM will work on a Atom powered netbook? James puts it through a few tests to see.     My next task was to test out the new music wall and try to play some music. This is where it turned south. Apparently, the music wall uses a lot of resources. When I first started playing […]

For those of you that want to test out the Windows 7 Beta but still want to use Vista or XP as well, this is a nice, easy to follow guide for setting up a Multi-Boot Windows system.  I haven’t tested it (yet) myself and there are a couple of commands that may look intimidating, but but follow the guide […]

What doesn’t SageMC do? It can now be used from touchscreen just like the custom Media Center installations, take that Microsoft! 😉   The SageMC Touchscreen Interface plugin adds a control bar to SageMC intended to provide touchscreen users with the following touchscreen buttons::  Back, Home, Stop Play/Pause, Skip back/fwd, Skip back2/fwd2, Record, Sleep, and Fullscreen. Also, in the Video […]

GBPVR may not be the sexiest in the world but for a free peice of software, they have a VERY stable PVR experience. Brent @ Geek Tonic has the scoop on the latest update. Below is a msall part of the change log.   fixed a couple of problem with multi-record (recordings that could continue recording after they were supposed […]