Zotac Blu-ray HD-ID34 Nettop / HTPC Review

Here’s Zotac’s latest cool SFF system featuring NVidia’s ION chipset. Pretty slick enclosure which seems to be able to handle fairly high image resolution without issues. The baseline system (2GB of DDR2-800 memory and a 250GB 5400RPM hard drive) is plenty powerful for basic tasks along with 720p/1080p video playback, but the barebones option would allow you to install 4GB […]

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Apple TV review

As the AppleTV’s are being received around the country, there’s a number of reviews popping up on the internet. The consensus seems to be the same–good quality picture, slick UI interface, ridiculously limited as far as playback functionality goes. For now, I’d still much prefer a Roku box, but who knows what will be capable from this $99 box when […]

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Panasonic GT25/GT20 review

Here’s an awesomely detailed review of the new GT series of Panasonic plasma televisions which incorporate 3D without the high end price tag of the awesome VT series. Looks like Panasonic has themselves another winner here. In fact GT25/GT20 is so close to VT25/VT20 in terms of 3D picture quality and crosstalk that I can’t really point out any relevant […]

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Maximum PC Moonlights With a HTPC Build

There’s some really questionable component choice (and handling for that matter), in the Maximum PC HTPC build.  I hope they expensed the parts because the system was at least $400 more than it needed to cost, and they forgot to include PowerDVD 10 in the bill of goods.   In this video (originally presented as part of the inaugural Maximum […]

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