Media Center Programs
I noticed this the other day as I migrated my main HTPC over to Windows 7, and shame on me for not even thinking twice about it. Part of the reason is that I prefer to just use 7.1 LPCM instead of passing through the bitstream, but unfortunately with HDMI and Windows 7, I have yet to figure out how […]
Read moreQuite an insightful and seemingly open Q&A discussion with two investors who recently caused some news by investing $6 million in Boxee. Great to get their thoughts on a number of topics, including Hulu and Netflix, as well as traditional content. I think they have the perfect attitude to go along with Boxee for success. Video Nuze We believe Roku […]
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Sorry folks, no Hulu or Netflix in this top 5 list…yet. I know the Boxee folks have been hard at work, and great plugins are just going to make it easier for people to migrate over. Some great apps on this list, some more useful than others IMO, but all pretty high quality. Mashable With the Pandora app for […]
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Here’s a great little compilation of DLNA-compatible software titles and some brief comparison items for each of them. Tube Centric The list contains objective and subjective information on the these Media Servers as compiled by tubeCentric.tv staff. The Ease of Setup column attempts to give a "scale of 1 to 10" rating of how easy the Media Server was […]
Read moreSome FANTASTIC news for Boxee fans all around, as they have quickly closed a Series B round of funding. The funding is impressive in this climate, but no doubt the investors saw the immense growth that Boxee has accomplished with such a small budget. This should guarantee the continuation and improvement for quite some time–which hopefully will result in more […]
Read moreBacking up is critical in every situation where it’s possible, but especially in your HTPC-app where you spend so much time configuring, tweaking, adjusting and in this case obtaining and setting up all your television recordings. Here’s a nice little guide on how to cover yourself if you’re a SageTV user. GeekTonic If you use SageTV as your home media […]
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We recently saw some newly released plugins for the Apple HTPC-application Plex, and today comes the announcement of a new version. Still not version 1.0, but a lot of fixes in this build from 0.8.1. to 0.8.2. Head on over to the Plex blog for the full list. Plex Blog We’ve targeted two major causes of user interface delay […]
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Anyone out there using Plex? It looks pretty slick from what I’ve seen, unfortunately I don’t have a Mac and I doubt a netbook with Hackintosh would do it much justice. Anyhow I digress, for those who ARE using the software for Mac, there are some new plugins to make your life easy. A lot are designed by the same […]
Read moreWell, the wait is over at least for those of you with MSDN or Technet access. The rest of the world still has to wait until the end of October, but this is good news. I was finally able to activate my RTM build 🙂 Windows Team Blog And tomorrow, our Volume License (VL) customers with an existing Software Assurance […]
Read moreContinuing on the Windows 7 news and articles, there’s a nice writeup over at TheGreenButton for what exactly is Home Group and how it can benefit you. Unfortunately us cable card owners are not as lucky since DRM’d recordings won’t work via this, but everything else does and it should make sharing content all that easier. TheGreenButton HomeGroup is a […]
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