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PCAlchemy Announces the Launch of Avideus.com and Avideus Products for the Digital Home With the launch of Avideus.com and the new Avideus Products for the Digital Home, PCAlchemy is greatly expanding its ability to bring new and innovative products to the consumer. The Avideus product line consists of a wide range of digital home products, from the small form factor […]
Read moreAnother week, another Media Center Show! Check it out, always a good listen. The Media Center Show This week I am talking Home Theatre with Dave Evans from Anywherecool.com. We talk about Windows Media Center in a home theatre and how to connect it up, including speakers, cables, remote controls and we also talk about whether to self build or […]
Read moreThe folks over at Hardware Secrets have put together a guide for troubleshooting a PC that won’t start. The problem of a suddenly dead PC seems to crop up every now and again so I thought that this article might help someone in the future. Some sage advice from the article below… Hardware Secrets Check if the main […]
Read moreA regular reader, Grant P., sent me an email asking for some help on a Wikipedia effort to document the capabilities of each HTPC software package available. This is an effort that takes the combined effort of a lot of folks who are intimately familiar with each software package. I think this is a great idea and hope everyone that […]
Read moreMicrosoft is banking on digital downloads for its XBox system and appears to be OK with letting Blu-Ray just pass it by. GamesIndustry Going forwards, digital downloads is really where it’s at," Lewis told GamesIndustry.biz. "More and more people’s ongoing and ever-increasing downloading of music and movies is becoming the de facto. I think that’s going to happen in very […]
Read moreI love the Ultimate Media Center contest Microsoft hosts, as you get to see really true dream Media Center setups. Well, Ian’s running a contest of his own for the little guy, big or small, matters not! The Digital Media Lifestyle It could be a big multi-room installation or a small neat single PC setup , anything that you have […]
Read moreChris nailed the proverbial nail on the head when he said Microsoft is not in talks with the Blu-ray association. As confirmed by Reuters, Aaron Greenburg said they are not in talk and will concentrate on the digital download experience instead. I think this is a very "head-in-the-sand" approach from Microsoft. Digital disitribution is not where its at for the […]
Read moreA couple of Q’s for you all. 1. Are you able to customize the order of channels in the guide? I realize you can renumber them but that doesn’t mean I want to do that :). I was hoping to have position independent of channel number. 2. Is there away to assign short cut keys to a third party program […]
Read moreGotta hand it to Ian & his phenomenal timing. Hot on the heels of the data corruption bug affecting Windows Home Server, Ian gets his microphone in with one of the biggest supporters of it to discussit, as well as how to avoid it. Can’t wait to listen! Show Times: 00:50 Coming up this week 02:00 Email – Home setup […]
Read moreAs I delve in WHS more and more, you can be sure you will see more news from WHS. One that caught my eye is the data corrpution bug that can affect a lot of different programs. We Got Server has the list and it is quite scary to see alot of Microsoft’s programs on that list. I hope they […]
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