The past week I’ve been playing around with a an Asus AH3650 512MB AGP Card. I have to say, it’s been fun. It continually surprises me by how low spec a system I can use to play back Blu-ray. So let’s take a direct approach to this little write-up. Right now I’m watching Super Bad (AVC ~30 Mbps, Dolby TrueHD […]
Read moreEngadget has gotten their hands on the Vista TV Pack and does a little walk through of the new features. For those of you running VMC this is a must read.
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Today, Life With a Plugin is going down a slightly different path and we’re looking at a plugin for SageTV. In particular this plugin works only with the popular SageMC STV for SageTV. Since Mike looked at every Netflix plugin possible for VMC, I thought that I should take a quick look at installing and living with the Netflix addon […]
Read moreAMD/ATI has realeased updated drivers for their line of graphics cards. The new Catalyst 8.7 drivers include lots of bug fixes, but the list of known unresolved bugs is still lengthy in the Release Notes . This may solve problems for you as there are a number of fixes to areas of HTPC concern such as HDMI, 1080i/720p resolutions, extended/cloned […]
Read moreIntel has announced that they are dropping their chip prices. The apple of my eye, the Core 2 Duo E8500, had the largest cut from $266 to $183 on the pricing list!
Read moreFollowing the trends this week, we have more streaming TV/movie news. Amazon has deployed an all new TV/movie rental/purchase service today. Currently in Beta testing and expected to go live in the near future. I’ve applied for the beta to see if I can do some real-time data gathering for you. Service will work with any internet device that has […]
Read moreMore news coming out of the press conferences at E3. Looks like the Sony Playstation 3 will have a movie and tv download service as of tonight. Also, the 80GB version will have a price drop to $399 continuing to make it one of the better deals in a standalone Blu-ray player. Engadget Like, immediately — the service is getting […]
Read moreComing out of the press conferences at E3, it looks like Netflix integration is coming to an Xbox 360 near you. Originally only supporting SD but there is somemention that as Netflix migrates to streaming HD the Xbox might support it. Engadget For now, Netflix will only stream in about-SD resolution. As Netflix transitions to HD, Microsoft said it stands […]
Read moreThis guide is a repost of my original guide over at HTPCNews.com. Broken links have been updated, no other real changes have been made. This repost is brought on by a resurgence of firewire related questions in my PM box so I thought I should bring this back up and also remind people that it’s 2 years old. Some improvements […]
Read more[H]ardOCP is reporting price drops by AMD. However the page they are linking to is dated April 28,2008. Not sure if the prices are new/old or if the date just wasn’t updated on the web page. Direct Link to AMD Psuedo-confirmation: The prices for at least the few I checked on the list are lower on the list that current […]
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