Hulu Officially Announces Its $9.99/mo Hulu Plus Offering

Will be interesting to see how users respond to this.   Great news for Hulu fans. Hulu has officially announced the upcoming availability of Hulu Plus (currently available via “preview invite”). The $9.99/mo Hulu Plus service will provide subscribers with a complete archive of all shows available through the service in 720p HD video. In other words, if you’re interested […]

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23 Tips For Buying the Best HDTV

Pretty basic stuff for most of us here, but useful to pass along to someone you know who may not be as technologically savvy.   Buying the right HDTV is actually much harder than walking into a store and laying down some plastic—and certainly much harder than it should be. But there are quite a few things you can do […]

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The Starship Enterprise’s Universal Remote

This thing really does look like something out of Star Trek. Not sure I’d want to use one.   The Cyclops universal remote would fit in so well in someone’s Star Fleet quarters, I’m surprised it doesn’t have a replicator button on it. Fortunately, you won’t have to wait for the far-flung future to own one. [Gizmodo]  

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AVerMedia Announces the AVerTVHD Duet PCI-E TV Tuner

Nice price for a dual card that’s Win 7 compatible.   Designed for Windows 7 and compatible with Windows XP / XP Media Center 2005 and Vista (32 and 64 Bit), AVerTVHD Duet is a new PCI Express ATSC (over-the-air) / ClearQAM digital cable tuner from AVerMedia capable of recording two channels at once — up to 1080i HD resolution […]

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Last.FM Coming to Xbox Live

Well, it seems more and more stuff keeps getting added to the xbox 360 dashboard while the extender portion gets no love. Just announced at E3: Last.FM support. Seeing as how development on the only Last.FM plugin I know of for VMC died quite awhile ago, this is welcome news.   Microsoft and Last.FM are making sweet, sweet music on […]

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vmcPlayIt – PlayOn media server front-end for VMC

From the author of the vmcNetflix plugin. You’ll need the PlayOn digital media server software however, which after the 14 day trial runs out will cost you $40.   vmcPlayIt is an add-in for Microsoft Windows Vista Media Center which provides a front-end interface to the PlayOn digital media server software for Vista Media Center PCs and Extenders.  The PlayOn […]

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