Tag: Media Center Programs

This announcement from WinDVD is not to surprising considering all the crack announcements in recent weeks. As the article mentions at the end, are we in for a crack-and-upgrade cycle everytime someone circumvents the AACS copy protection. Digital Trends The update is required for customers to be able to view AACS-protected Blu-ray or HD DVD content-and that doesn't apply just […]

Media Portal, the largest Windows OS media center program project, has just included a web interface in the latest svn builds. Media Portal We're pleased to announce that we're working on a webinterface for tvserver3. With the webinterface you can control your tvserver over the internet using a normal webbrowser. You can view the tvguide, schedule recordings and more. So […]

I know you guys have been buzzing about this on the forums for a while now so I'm sure you'll all be happy to hear it's finally coming, the new Xbox360 with some pretty nice upgrades. Now with HDMI & in black, just to name a few of the added perks I'm sure you'll pay more for. Chris Lanier's Blog […]

Oh QAM, what have you done for me lately? Those three small letters have caused such commotion in the Media Center world, that it's good to see BeyondTV tackle it first. Hopefully that will put more pressure on the "others" to add it in as well. Snapstream Blog The big news for this build is support for the HDHomeRun network […]

Over at theGreenButton, Jessica Zahn, from the Microsoft e-home team, finally was able to get an answer for those of you wondering about any upgrade plan Microsoft has in store for your V1 Extenders, and it's not a wonderful thing, sorry. I still give props to Jessica for having the courage to post this, as I know a lot of […]

Get your latest version of SageTV here: SageTV V6.1.6 Release Notes 3/20/2007 RELEASE CANDIDATE 5 Core Updates 1. DVB frequency updates for Sweden 2. Fixed various bugs related to not using an always increasing clock. The most notable one being when SageTVClient would disconnect from the server whenever it did a significant clock change. 3. Added property optimize_metadata_mem_usage which defaults […]

Either way, the voice of this video is an absolute horrible idea. I love the idea of this application, but the video is ridiculous. I had to stop it at 12 minutes because it was getting absolutely ridiculous. That being said, there were some neat features of this app, but since the site's down due to digg, we'll have to […]

Lifehacker has a fairly high level overview with some nice screenshots of Media Portal. It's quite a powerful, and absolutely free Media Center application, so you should check it out if you're evaluating a system. Aside from its core functionality, MediaPortal has a robust set of installable plugins you can use to extend its functionality. For example, there's Last.fm integration, […]

Doing a comparison of any Linux project and a proprietart software is sure way to get the flames going. In fact, John even took the time to respond to this article with a blog post of his own. This time DVRPlayground is back again to answer some of the questions posed by the readers. From the article: For instance, if […]

If you are still on the fence on deciding to upgrade to Vista MCE, EH has a detailed a few of the new features that can be found. From the article: Instant On Windows Vista includes a special HotStart mode that instantly starts movie, TV or music playback without requiring the full operating system to boot up. This allows you […]