Hauppauge Launches New WinTV Products for Windows Vista

LAS VEGAS–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Hauppauge Digital, Inc., the world’s leading developer and manufacturer of analog and digital video, TV, and data broadcast receiver products for personal computers, has launched a line of four new TV tuner products specifically designed to support Microsoft’s Vista Media Center and to take full advantage of Vista’s exciting TV features. After five years in development, the Windows […]

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HDMI – Past, Present, and Future

DenGuru has an overview of the history of HDMI, and what exactly it means for users. Not a bad refresher course if you've been trying to avoid any information about this thus far. With the release of HDMI 1.3, there are many factors to consider if you are attempting to purchase new A/V equipment. HDMI receivers have not been on […]

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Sony Announces The XL3

Although most of our CES coverage, including this article, will be in our daily summary, I thought this was worth special mention. After all of these years the technology has finally arrived to allow the Media Center to replace every stand alone box in your Home Theater (minus the receiver of course). The XL3 can replace a HD TiVo, high […]

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Linux Image Quality Comparison

There are at least a couple of Myth users among us, so I thought I would post up this Nvidia/ATI image quality comparison from Phoronix. They take a look at a couple of DVDs and game tests to see who comes out the victor. It appears that both cards perform very closely to each other with Nvidia eaking out a […]

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CES: Janurary 8th

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See Day 1 coverage here.    SciFiTech: Philips does single-speaker surround with SoundBar There have been plenty of options out there for people who want surround sound but not surround speakers, but we have to admit that Philips's SoundBar HTS8100 looks like a pretty slick new entry to the category. Using proprietary Ambisound technology and Smart Surround processing, it's meant to […]

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