Holiday Gadget Guide has a quick little write up on the new Denon home theater receiver. Fair warning, not the most in-depth, detailed review for you audiophiles, but it's a good summary for those interested in just learning a bit more from an opinion standpoint. After a while of everyone talking about using HTPCs as your whole stereo, it's good […]
Read moreWe've posted plenty of news from Automated Home & other websites regarding all sorts of devices for you to be as lazy as you want & fully automate your entire house. Well there's a video clip on YouTube from a news report of some new devices actually in testing. The coolest one IMO (In my opinion) is the MCE-enabled Washer/Dryer. […]
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How much would you pay for a 37" LCD with a built in media-center type software? If the answer is $1999, you're in luck! Apparantly HP feels that people are willing to spend $700 more for this feature vs their 37" without it. I'm a little baffled, but hey, seeing the overwhelming success of all the other TV/Media Center combos, […]
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This is great news for the consumer, and from what I can recall reading, Vizio is actually a fairly decent brand name. Especially if you can buy it at Costco & take advantage of their awesome return policy in case anything happens. Vizio is getting a jump start on Black Friday by unleashing a legion of new HDTVs. Delivering the […]
Read moreOrb is really doing a great job at being first to market on a lot of nice features, as well as making themselves some nice strategic partners. It's great to see as I frequently use it. Now if only it would play nice with Media Center!! Orb Networks today announced that its free MyCasting™ service is the first to take […]
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Apparantly only available for Series 2 TiVos so far, but still some nice updates for ya. I don't own a TiVo but could you really not set it to record a certain amount of time extra? Hey, maybe MCE did have some unique features afterall Thank you for your interest in the new TiVo Fall 2006 Service Update, […]
Read moreIf you've ever tried building a media center in your living room, (or anywhere else if you have a significant other who always seems to have super-sensitive hearing), then I'm sure you've tried all you could to make sure your HTPC is as silent as possible. SilentPCReview is a great source for info, and they go in-depth as to what […]
Read moreThis sounds too good to be true, and the article doesn't mention actually seeing it in person, so I'll withhold judgment until somebody does a legitimate review of this. The sunlight has plagued projection units as long as I can remember, and the promise of a cure might make enough people bite the bullet. NP of Denmark has announced its […]
Read moreI just realized these guys' office is right down the street from where I live, small world huh! So let me know if they mess with anyone here & I'll go kick down the door for ya! An award-winning designer and manufacturer of media servers based on the Windows Media Center platform, Niveus Media announces the company’s 2007 Pro Series […]
Read moreToday, at the Electronic House Expo (EHX) Fall 2006 trade show, Embedded Automation announced its upcoming release of mControl v2 (Home Edition) for Windows Vista. mControl is software for controlling the “digital home” and supports leading home management technologies like Z-Wave and INSTEON. The new release will be previewed within the Windows Media Center Pavilion at EHX (Booth #1317F). In […]
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