HTPC Hardware (MB, RAM, Video Card etc)
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Today at CES, we stopped by SiliconDust’s booth to check out the latest news on the forthcoming HDHomeRun Prime CableCARD tuner. A “pilot production” run is in progress and the Prime is going to Cable Labs next week for certification which takes anywhere from 1 to 3 months. No beta schedule was revealed. Also featured at the booth […]
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Have you held back from purchasing a Ceton InfiniTV 4? Is four tuners not enough? How about six? Through a tweet looks like the rumored InfiniTV 6 has made it into Ceton’s line of MOCUR tuners. @engadgethd slight correction to your gateway media console article. It is actually a Ceton InfiniTV 6 in it 🙂 may want to update the […]
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At CES today Hauppauge officially announced their new Colossus High Definition H.264 Video Recorder. It is similiar to their existing USB HD PVR but is an internal PCI-E card and includes unencrypted HDMI up to 1080i. In the same press release SageTV announced support for the Colossus in SageTV 7.x. We hope to have a hands on with the Colossus […]
Read moreDid anyone miss the memo about 2.5TB hard drives? Oh well, I suppose more is better. It’s funny how long we’ve been stuck at 2TB drives. If you’re in the market for one of these awesome new 3 terabyte drives, keep in mind they’ll require an add-on card it comes with to support booting off it (thanks legacy BIOS). Still […]
Read moreRemember the Kinect on Media Center video we posted a bit ago? Well not to be outdone, some other developers have made an open source software to allow you to use the same Kinect hardware with your PC to control the free XBMC and Boxee software. Called the KinEmote, it’s still more cool than functional, but given the amount of […]
Read moreI’ve used Silverstone HTPC cases in the past (the old LC-10M) and thought it was a great case for the price. Here’s the GD04 reviewed at Anandtech, where the reviewer finds some faults…and the commentors find some faults in the reviewer. Ah, good times. The GD04 is remarkably attractive if you’re into that minimalist look (I am); there’s a sister […]
Read moreYES!! I’ve needed this one! Although upgrading to the highest end HP Home Server last year helped a lot, I still will experience random stuttering during playback that I know is caused by demigrator peaking cycles. Here’s an awesome guide from Damian on how to configure this to run when YOU want it to run. The stuttering would last for […]
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I can’t wait for the day when ALL graphics cards are cooled nice and quietly so we won’t have to be worried about putting a jet turbine engine in our computers. Until that day comes, reviews like ours and this one from SPCR exist to make sure you don’t make that mistake. Here’s two of AMD’s new 6850 cards that […]
Read moreWow, this has really not been a good month for Windows Home Server followers all around. First the announcement that Drive Extender was kaput, and now word that the largest OEM of Home Server devices, HP, has discontinued their entire line and will no longer be producing. Yikes. This also means that there will not be any more software updates […]
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Here’s an interesting case. It was a few years ago when cube cases were all the rage for your main PC, but that really has diminished…but here’s a new offering from the all aluminum fans at Lian Li. It looks pretty slick, but I’m still not sure I could fit this in my home theater. I am speaking of the […]
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