On10 Video Interview with Ceton

Let the buzz continue on the very soon to be released quad-cablecard tuners from Ceton corp. I’m sure you’ve seen the review from Engadget, but if you wanted to see a video interview , here ya go. It’s pretty basic and moreso covers general info instead of technical, but still cool. Note, Silverlight required to view the video. On10 Ceton […]

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Parks Associates Confirms: Web-Connected Game Consoles Outpace HTPCs in U.S. Households

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I don’t think this is surprising at all, but still an interesting report to take a look at. I take it as a positive that even given the significant growth of web-enabled game consoles, the PC-to-TV connections also continue to grow. Parks Associates’ Digital Lifestyle: 2010 Outlook report finds that web-connected game consoles outpaced PC-to-TV connections in 2008, 2009, and […]

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Kudos to Monoprice

I’ve been a huge fan of Monoprice.com as a company, due to their fantastic products and prices, for a long time now.  I now have another reason to love this company.  Recently, Monoprice was notified of a potential security breach when a few of their customers notified them "that information from credit cards they used on the Monoprice website had […]

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3view OTA HD digital TV box packs IPTV, Z-Wave, Opera

The GoogleTV is gaining a lot of buzz, so here’s something that sneaked in over the UK from 3View that combines a ton of various content. I think it’s just common sense for companies to begin integrating traditional TV with IPTV…but that’s just me. The hardware consists of a STB with dual DVB-T2 HD digital TV tuners for OTA high-definition […]

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Samsung’s 3D UN55C8000 Review

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If you wanted more detail than you ever thought existed for TV’s, then HDGuru is your man, and he’s got the first 3D set from Samsung up to bat. It does a decent job especially for a first generation product. The Samsung 3D ready sets have the ability to convert normal 2D content into what we like to call “genuine […]

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ATI Continues its downsizing of Tuners

Remember my blog about ATI tuners in general being end of life’d, specifically the Digital Cable Tuner? Well, this FAQ posted today shows that ATI is not even bothering developing Windows 7 drivers for a number of their tuners. If you were thinking of upgrading and using ATI tuners, be very careful! Windows 7 Tuner drivers for the products listed […]

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Some More WHS V2 details

Last month we saw leaked photos of the upcoming V2 of Windows Home Server, here are some further details courtesy of the SageTV forums. Built on the RTM bits of Windows Server 2008 R2. Will come in 2 flavors, HOMESTANDARD and HOMEPREMIUM Requires an x64 Processor. Requires a minimum of 160GB primary hard drive. Server "Desktop Experience" is installed OOB […]

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