AMD Releases New Catalyst 11.7 Graphics Driver

While the new release doesn’t add any new features, it does include a variety of bug fixes including improved blu-ray playback and corrupution reduction. Staying true to its schedule, AMD has today made available the WHQL-certified Catalyst 11.7 driver for its Radeon HD 2000, HD 3000, HD 4000, HD 5000 and HD 6000 series desktop cards and Radeon 3000 and […]

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SilverStone CW02 HTPC Reviewed

If you’re into really large HTPC cases, this may be the guy for you.  My preferences generally run the other way though – preferring to push the hard drives into another location where the rattle doesn’t matter as much. The CW02 from Silverstone’s Crown Series is crafted to allow users to really appreciate the design of this high quality HTPC […]

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67 Easy Steps to a W7 Media Center Reinstallation

I started this blog posting back in February, and about the same time took over the management of the start-up I was working for, so while the blog post lingered, I continued to use it for my own purposes to track the changes I made to the system. There are definitely a number of useful nuggets in here, especially if […]

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Apple Drops Front Row Media Feature From OS X Lion

Given our recent reviews of the Elgato tuners specifically designed for Mac, we were hoping for somewhat of a growth for HTPC usage for Mac customers. Instead we discover that Apple has dropped Front Row (is Microsoft next?). New features, amendments and the odd issue are still being discovered within Apple’s new OS X Lion operating system and one older […]

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24p Works on Intel Sandy Bridge With UAC Enabled

Last week we posted an update on the need to disable User Account Control (UAC) on Intel’s second generation HD Graphics IPG (Sandy Bridge) systems, but we still weren’t sure how to reliably reproduce the results.  Well a new DH67BL showed up today along with instructions on how to enable the feature on existing hardware which explains why we couldn’t […]

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