Blu-Ray vs. HD-DVD panel discussion

Its nice to see the Blu-Ray and HD-DVD camps take time out of their busy schedule of predicting each others’ imminent demise via press release to sit down together and do it in person. Video Business Supporters of the HD DVD and Blu-ray Disc high-definition formats locked horns at the HDTV DisplaySearch conference here Wednesday, but all participants ultimately agreed […]

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The Casual Input Device

This idea has been floating around in my head for a few months now. I am pretty sure this idea will never make it to market.  With me as its sole stakeholder, I decided to share it with the community so you can mock me. Let me layout the situation before I go into my brilliant idea. The other night, […]

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Turn Your Rig into a Linux Home Theater PC (for free)

Here’s yet another article highlighting 3 HTPC software programs that run under Linux.  The best part is it’s all free.  Well, free if you don’t put a price on your time and you already have the hardware laying around. ExtremeTech You hardly need a state of the art machine to run MythTV or Freevo, though some extra processing power and […]

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