JRiver Media Center quietly turned their audiophile PC music player into a full featured media playback application over the last few releases. In the last revision they added Red October (a feature that tames DirectShow codec selection) as well as bringing madVR support to a SAF friendly 10′ UI (Theater View). The latest rev (dubbed B17) brings better TV support […]
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Mention streaming music services these days, and the conversation is almost certain to turn to Spotify and Pandora. AOL Radio may not get the spotlight much anymore, but as one of the oldest music streaming services and still one of the more popular, it shouldn’t be ignored. Evidently another former music streaming darling agrees as Slacker has stepped in to […]
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Version 1.0 of OpenELEC has been released to the public. OpenELEC, or Open Embedded Linux Entertainment Center, is a Linux distro built from the ground up to serve one purpose: to run XBMC. Version 1.0 of OpenELEC has been released to the public. With Linux stripped down and rebuilt to serve the needs of XBMC, the OpenELEC team are promising an […]
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Every day there are more and more interesting things coming out of the Windows Phone platform. One of the enticing ideas for me is having seamless integration with my xbox, Media Center, and Windows Home Server all into my phone. Being able to control my content, and seamlessly share it one thing I am extremely interested in. One developer, TheMediaCenterProject […]
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For years now I’ve been running the same Linux installation and the same MythTV installation on the same hardware. From time to time I would upgrade the MythTV installation or the OS to the latest revision but it was always an upgrade from the previous and not a clean install. However, earlier this summer I was faced with a hardware […]
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The HTPC hobby starts out innocently enough. You hook a spare computer up to the TV in the living room, just to try it out. Next thing you know you have computers and media streamers in every room and they all need access to the same files. Early entry-level NAS devices were pretty much dumb boxes, but these days the […]
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When 3D TVs first started hitting the market, I yawned. For me, glasses-free was where it was at. Of course, I expected it would still come in the form of a flat screen that simulated the appearance of three dimensional objects. A company named Zebra Imaging has hooked up with DARPA to develop the ultimate in 3D: a hologram TV. […]
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The Netflix app has been available on Android for a while now, but only on devices that supported Android 2.2 or 2.3. Now, just in time for the release of Android 4.0, the Netflix app is available on Android 3.x devices. The app will also be available in Canada and Latin America for the first time. Android 3.x, or Honeycomb, is […]
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