Author: mr-site

This is a page on the site for a mini-golf course that happens to be named Monster Mini-Golf.  As they seem to do a lot, Monster Cable sued them.  But they didn’t buckle and they’re fighting back.  They need all the publicity and press and help they can get.    So now….it’s on to trial!As you might expect, it’s going […]

Boxee, of which I finally got installed but am greeted with a black screen, just added Netflix watch now for Linux and Mac versions.  AppleTV can’t yet do netflix but getting it working is their top priority right now.  Boxee keeps getting better.  It might be time to devote some real time to getting Boxee working on my AppleTV.    […]

New Beta for Sage is out!   Among the interesting features, Sage now supports 720p youtube videos, multithreaded transcoding, and a slew of other bug fixes. I’ll be sure to test drive it tonight!    Core Updates 1. Various improvements to SageTVTranscoder and SageTVPlayer (for HDPVR support and other bugs encountered in 6.5.1/2) 2. Movies that have the ‘Premiere’ attribute […]

  Purchase myTV anytime between December 1st – 25th and you’ll automatically be entered into a boxing day draw for a brand new Seagate Barracuda 7200.11 1500GB harddrive. We will also randomly pick out one new customer per day who will receive a full refund on their payment – as in, you’ll get a completely free license to myTV to […]

TI decided to do some spoof videos to show what life would be like without engineers in the world and why you should thank them when you see them.  I think the videos are worth looking at for a second.   Thank an Engineer For making our lives safer, more productive and fun  [Texas Instruments]  

This isn’t really HTPC related but most of you are probably familiar with Guitar Hero.  I wanted to post this because it was just really cool.  Watch the video and be amazed.   Combine the popular video game Guitar Hero with high-speed industrial hardware and a real-time OS and what do you get? An entertaining demonstration of machine vision capabilities […]

You’ve heard news recently about 3DTV development.  Now’s your chance to influence the industry.  Take this survey and have an input.  As incentive, they’re giving out a bunch of prizes as well.    As exciting as this is, there has been very little input from experienced S-3D and traditional 2D gamers about this technology, and MTBS believes it is the […]

Overclockers club has a prebuilt HTPC from Asus for review if you don’t want to build your own.  While they still run it through your standard system benchmarks, which aren’t really applicable for HTPCs, they atleast test out video playback.  Take a gander.   Asus, one of the world’s largest consumer computer hardware manufacturer, which also makes their own, custom designs, […]

Support is still preliminary and rather buggy but if you have the hardware requirements and don’t mind using code that is not yet released, Mythtv can use the new Nvidia accelleration that was recently released.  That’s one big advantage of open source applications.  Quick turn around times for new features.   With NVIDIA providing a header file in the driver […]

  The leading network storage solutions provider QNAP Systems, Inc. today announced its TS-509 Pro Turbo NAS awarded PC PRO Recommended and 5-star rating. The rich features and performance of the NAS are highly recognized. The editor gave a verdict: ‘the TS-509 delivers classy storage features and its high spec makes it the fastest desktop NAS app on the planet.’ According […]