Sure the video and audio quality is an improvement but what about the interactive features? EngadgetHD has a recap of the BD-Live director’s chat from Hellboy II. Accessing Hellboy’s BD-Live menu and logging in to our UniversalHiDef.com account wasn’t too troublesome thanks to a USB keyboard plugged into a PlayStation 3, but until we took the extra step of […]
Read moreIt seems the MPAA is at it again. This time it could eliminate the possibility of using a HDPVR to record the shows you love. The Consumer Electronics Association (CEA) says that, if the Federal Communications Commission gives Hollywood a waiver on Selectable Output Control, 20 million HDTV sets will cease to function as they did when they were […]
Read moreIt never hurts to add a few major features to your HTPC software, however adding a couple of major HD tuning features is even better :). The first one, though somewhat less important these days, is support for Clear QAM tuning that allows the end-user to tune and record channels that are transmitted in unencrypted QAM. John had a chance […]
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Building upon their previos beta release that added EVR support, 6.5.2 adds a few bug fixes to make your EVR experience a better one. They also snuck in multi-threading for transcoding. *Hint – Click the SageTV logo for the link. Here is a poll that could be very useful to HTPC software makers everwhere. Over 1100 people responded to a […]
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Those of you that have followed my articles in the past know that I’m a Linux fan. I appreciate it’s flexibility and potential. I also enjoy a challenge and I don’t mind doing a little digging to solve a problem. When it came time to hatch a HTPC system for the home, I naturally went with MythTV. In fact, I’ve […]
Read moreGizmodo has a good article up explaining the different video codecs and containers. Its worth the click imo, they do a pretty good job explaining the different file formats and codecs and how it relates to modern technology. Gizmodo Okay, so all that stuff up there are industry-wide standard video codecs. On top of all of those, various entities love […]
Read moreI really like the new MTV Music Video site :). I watch quite a few videos on a weekly basis. I just wish a VMC plugin would become available. In the mean time, we will have to do with a MediaPortal version for the open source enthusiasts among us. Plugin Page Plugin Discussion
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I wonder what it takes to get a job in the ehome labs? After seeing a few of EngadgetHD’s shots, I would dust off the old resume :). Click here to see a whole lot more pictures of the eHome labs and the DirectTV HDPC-20 tuner in action.
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The other day, I heard about this little phenomon called bittorrent. I decided to check it out, actually I was interested to see if there was a plugin available for Vista Media Center. This let me to the TVitty plugin which integrates into VMC. tvitty is a plugin distributed by a company who has a small library of content available […]
Read moreHave you ever wondered about the ins and outs of digital streaming? Niel Hunt, Chief Product Office of Netflix, has a lengthy post that takes you through the encoding for streaming process. I won’t spoil the exciting read, head on over the Netflix Blog and read it yourself. Netflix Today we have rights to deliver about 400 streams in HD […]
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