The other day, I heard about this little phenomon called bittorrent. I decided to check it out, actually I was interested to see if there was a plugin available for Vista Media Center. This let me to the TVitty plugin which integrates into VMC. tvitty is a plugin distributed by a company who has a small library of content available […]
Read moreHave you ever wondered about the ins and outs of digital streaming? Niel Hunt, Chief Product Office of Netflix, has a lengthy post that takes you through the encoding for streaming process. I won’t spoil the exciting read, head on over the Netflix Blog and read it yourself. Netflix Today we have rights to deliver about 400 streams in HD […]
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Welcome to another edition of The Daily Button :). While I have your attention, I thought I would throw out a question to you folks. Does it make sense for MissingRemote.com to get involved in some of the social networks? Do you really want to see a twitter update of me laughing out loud at Who’s Line Is It Anyways? […]
Read moreLong-time Sirius satellite radio subscriber Stan Petrov is fed up and he’s not going to take it anymore. He signed on with Sirius two years ago and bought several receivers. But since Sirius merged with XM radio, he has lost his access to coverage of NBA games. [ars technica] ars technica Long-time Sirius satellite radio subscriber Stan Petrov […]
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Long Zheng has several great articles up about the upcoming Windows 7. It is worth it to check out his blog for all of his Windows 7 updates. What caught my eye was a nice chart outline Window 7 CODEC support. We all hope this advancement finds its way to the extender world. Check out his blog post here. […]
Read moreThis is big news for us HTPC users that run Nvidia graphics cards under Linux. It sounds like you need a GeForce 8 card or newer to take advantage of it though. Phoronix Over the course of the past few months we have been saying that the NVIDIA 180 Linux driver to be released in the fourth quarter of 2008 […]
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Regardless of the economic situation, saving a few dollars always makes sense. Here are few tips that should help the HTPC novice in the planning stage, or even the seasoned HTPC pro save a few dollars on their digital lifestyle. Going through the list of suggestions in my head, I am pretty impressed by what is available in terms of […]
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More Open Source news today! XBMC Atlantis surfaces with releases for Linux, Mac, and Windows! This release focuses on bug squashing. Alot of problems, at least in the past, with open source media programs is they have not taken the time to freeze features and focus on squashing bugs. It certainly looks like alot of the open source teams have […]
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Boxee has certainly garnered alot of attention over the past few weeks. Enough so to get a bit of money from a couple of venture capitalist firms. In that same post, they state their lofty goal is to attract 1,000,000 users by the end of 2009. What do you guys think? Is the open source/free Media Center world getting a […]
Read moreHulu, the website that everyone loves but not enough to make HTPC plugins for, has its eyes set on overseas markets. Given its success and buzz, it is not surprising to see Hulu expand in alternative market. It makes me wonder how well it will do with libraries that are not owned by the parent companies. Reuters Peter Smith, President […]
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