Tag: Hardware

I was going through some of my older news emails and noticed I missed on of Benchmark Reviews’ articles on the Thermaltake DH101 HTPC case. Benchmark Reviews Not too long ago, Benchmark Reviews featured a Guide: How to shop for your first HDTV in which we revealed that digital HDTV’s would soon be a forced standard in slightly more than […]

If you are in need of an addition DCT (digital cable tuner) for your CableCard ready PC, you can now check out Sont Style for a new tuner OR a $199 refurbsihed tuner. This is $100 off the standard $299 which makes it a lot better of a deal and even cheaper then Hauppauge’s upcoming HD-PVR. Product Link  A couple […]

Here’s an outsiders take on a good HTPC.  It’s definitely a decent hardware choice but it’s interesting to see no video playback benchmarks for an HTPC specific article…  Oh well.  Go take a look anyway. Tweak Town While hardcore make up a percentage, it’s not the biggest out there; office systems make up most of the PCs out there today, […]

I wonder if they counted the Maxtor line in the 1 billion? PR Newswire Consider this: the 1 billion hard drives Seagate has delivered equates to approximately 79 million terabytes, able to store 158 billion hours of digital video or 1.2 trillion hours of your favorite music.

http://registration.hauppauge.com/webstore/hardware2.asp?product=hd_pvr Get it while the getting is good. I can only imagine that demand will be rather high! There is absolutely no mention of what software it supports at this point! I would think that initally you will only get support for Hauppage’s own software. SageTV and BeyondTV shouldn’t be far behind though. Update: Brent Evans has confirmed that BeyondTV and SageTV […]

This unit may not be the strongest HSF candidate out there but if you’re in the market for a low profile cooler this may be just the "ticket". Techpowerup The OrigenAE C10 heatsink is a low-profile heatsink meant for HTPC systems (like the OrigenAE S10V) and other low-profile cases. It is only as wide as the 70mm on the front […]

El Reg Compares 4 – 1TB Hard Drives Hitachi, Samsung, Seagate, and Western Digital. It is what is. Not done from an HTPC viewpoint  Reg Hardware In the last 12 months or so, the price of the Hitachi has fallen to £159 which pitches it squarely against the Seagate ST31000340NS Barracuda ES.2 and Western Digital’s WD1000FYPS RE2-GP. Hitachi uses five […]

Anymore it seems that the only PSU reviews out there are for units capable of lighting up Mayberry.  For HTPCers, though, there probably isn’t quite the need for those 1KW monsters so a look at something in the 300 – 400W range is always a welcome read.  (On a side note: will I be sued for using the word ‘monster’ […]

Taipei, Taiwan, March 21, 2008 – Catering to the new era in multimedia technology, ASUS, producer of high quality audio and visual solutions, has announced the new ASUS Splendid HD1 video enhance card. This astounding piece of hardware is able to increase picture quality for HD content to deliver sharper, more vividly colored visual outputs. It can even enhance lower […]

From the looks of it they are employing the same principal behind the Ionic Breeze for use in computers and such. I wonder if it will also make the office smell fresh and clean? Thorn.com Solid-state fan uses a proprietry technology which is based on the principle of electro-aerodynamic pumping. Electro-aerodynamic pumping is based on corona discharge which is the […]