Author: mikinho

With the pre-release of the iPhone today Apple managed to quietly update the Mac mini with a new slick small form factor (SFF) design along with a much needed hardware upgrade. Most notable is the inclusion of a HDMI port, reduced power consumption to less than 10W at idle, and an improved video card to the NVIDIA GeForce 320M Graphics […]

While not a huge fan of Flash myself, at least on the HTPC, I can’t argue with the mass appeal and shear amount of Flash based content available. If you do use Flash on your Windows based HTPC via Hulu, Youtube, or other Flash based streaming services make sure to upgrade.  GPU hardware acceleration makes a world of difference on […]

An updated WD TV is now available for purchase.  It addresses a lot of the requests current owners have been asking for and stays in the same relative price point.  So far it looks like current owners are out of luck in terms of a firmware update but might still happen.  I was a big fan of the older models […]

  I’ve added my initial thoughts and some screen shots, check it out via Read more below.   I’ve been e-mailing back and forth with Hauppauge support trying to get early access to the native Windows Media Center drivers.  No luck with early access but the latest e-mail stated I’d be able to download beta drivers today. As of 4:25 pm CT […]

A pretty big release for TMT3.  It fixes quite a few audio issues introduce in .170, fixes MKV playback and introduces Sim3D capability.     Sim3D is Arcsoft’s 3D plug-in for TMT3 that provides support for:   Blu-ray 3D™ movie – Blu-ray 3D™ (a.k.a. BD3D) is a new Blu-ray Association standard (Profile 5) in which the title is encoded in Multiview […]

Great news though without knowing more could be bad news for existing owners.   Hoping we will be able to provide additional information soon.    Intel’s integrated graphics are about to get a stereoscopic shot in the arm this summer. Although the Computex presentation today wasn’t clear on whether it would come in the form of a firmware update or […]

If you are a Haali Media Splitter user, I am, you’ll want to update.  No problems on my systems so far.   20/05/2010 New Features: Added support for WebM files Fixed items: Fixed a lot of issues with mp4 muxer Better support for VC-1 in MPEG Transport streams [Haali]  

Ben got it right "Oh man this sucks"   Oh man this sucks — just got word that Ceton has once again delayed the release of its InfiniTV 4CableCARD tuner. [Engadget HD]   While disappointing, it happens. I’m more concerned with Ceton procuring reliable parts then rushing to production.

Vail, WHS v2, is available for public testing.  I installed yesterday but haven’t played with it much yet.  Have you tried it yet?  Let us know what your thoughts are, I’ll be adding mine tonight.     Windows Home Server V2 (Vail) Part 1 April 26, 2010 — Matthew Glover ITS HERE! Your first chance to see the new public preview […]

Late last night (or early morning) Travis Bell released themoviedb v2!  If you are not familiar with tmdb it is an open, community driven, movie database.  Chances are you’ve used it one way or another, either directly or via any number of the tools that use it for metadata and artwork. Travis has been working on v2 for quite some […]