HTPC Hardware (MB, RAM, Video Card etc)
Sub has been pretty damn near legendary of his support in capture cards (including one of the first to support HD-PVR) and extenders such as Hauppauge’s MVP. He has taken this skill and extended this to the Popcorn Hour Extender. In this case, the Popcorn Hour acts as a GB-PVR client\extender and will stream most anything you throw at it […]
Read moreFor a mere $450, Acer is rolling out a Blu-ray capable HTPC/mini-tower. For this price, you get a nicely equipped unit with a GeFroce 8200 motherboard (8-channel audio, hardware decode of H.264 and VC-1 CODECS). This is a pretty could entry price for a client-HTPC or DVD/Blu-ray library with a couple of HDHomeruns :). Engadget Acer promises full 7.1-channel audio […]
Read moreInsideHW It’s rare occasion to have on test, on the same month, new generation products from two big rivals (nVIDIA and ATI). This is really good news because ATI had some serious delays with R600 and that is one of reasons why it was so indifferently received on market. ATI realized that now must roll up its sleeves to catch […]
Read moreWith a title like this, I was expecting Intel’s newest IGP to suck the hind tit. Chris’ testing shows a different story. Some initial testing shows a 28% CPU usage playing back H.264 content. The DG45 will be available in mATX and mini-ITX :). Good news for client HTPCs :). Morley Digital Just to be sure, I did test the […]
Read moreThe buzz around the latest VMC beta certainly isn’t encouraging and EngadgetHD is reporting, not from official sources, that DirectTV support is not expected until 2010. To make matters worse, Hauppauge’s HDPVR is not slated for support until the same time frame. The last piece of good news is that the Beta package will be released to OEM installers only. […]
Read more[H]ardOCP is reporting price drops by AMD. However the page they are linking to is dated April 28,2008. Not sure if the prices are new/old or if the date just wasn’t updated on the web page. Direct Link to AMD Psuedo-confirmation: The prices for at least the few I checked on the list are lower on the list that current […]
Read moreNow stop me if you have heard this one before! What do you get when you cross a tuner card and a video card? Yah, I have no idea! I wonder what it is? Just when you think the All-In-Wonder is dead, ATI drags it from the depths of despair and add HD to the title. The AIW of years […]
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Anandtech’s preview of ATI’s newest Radeon HD 4×00 series confirms what we’ve been hearing all along. The Radeon 4×00 series finally supports proper 8-channel LPCM over HDMI Bring on the mid-range Radeon HD 4650 version! AnandTech All of AMD’s Radeon HD graphics cards have shipped with their own audio codec, but the Radeon HD 4800 series of cards finally […]
Read moreLowtech was a bit shy when he submitted this news story :). At any rate, this is a good comparo of budget CPUs from AMD and Intel. Legion Hardware Never before have we had both companies releasing such powerful processors at such bargain basement prices. While AMD may be loosing the performance war, they still have a number of very […]
Read moreInsideHW "Factory overclocked graphics cards are not novelty anymore. It’s become more and more frequent practice that manufacturers launch parallel models with clocks determined by nVidia or ATI, and models with (more or less) raised clocks. It happens very often that factory overclocked graphics card reach maximum clock at lower value than “default” card would. So, that whole situation starts […]
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