Lately I have started playing games on my Home Theater PC. Sitting on my couch and playing video games on my 42" tv is absolutely great. It’s comfortable, the screen’s big, I can kick my feet up. All around excellent. To play games I use a Logitech Rumblepad 2 for playing the game and a Logitech diNovo Mini for communicating […]
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First off, thanks to the 197 people who participated in last week’s poll, asking the question of "What is your primary Blu-ray playback software or hardware." It was said after our last poll on HTPC software, that our members are somewhat skewed based on the content MissingRemote caters to, but the numbers here seem pretty understandable. We show 15% of […]
Read moreI’ve been using a HTPC in some way shape or form for over 7 years now. Throughout that time I’ve gone through every single stage of enthusiasm. Where in the beginning I was all gung-ho about everything I did, was willing to try new things, new pieces of software, new pieces of hardware, basically anything I could get my hands […]
Read moreWell, I’m sad to say that I had to temporarily disable my server power savings. There were a couple of key problems that I ran into while using the shutdown and wakeup scripts. The first was that there were a few times where I would be watching a show on my frontend (which is a separate machine from the backend) […]
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Wanted to thank everyone for participating in our poll last week. It was very interesting watching the poll results come in and seeing the final results. In case you missed them, here’s the results: Almost 400 people participated and surprising myself, SageTV came out ahead of everyone with 44% of the votes. Windows 7 Media Center was just […]
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Over the last three weeks I have received quite a few e-mails from concerned readers that Hauppauge may have "dropped" development on HD PVR support for Windows Media Center. The last beta drivers, v1.0.28201, were released a little over two months ago, July 21, 2010, and we haven’t heard much since then. I’m happy to report that development is alive […]
Read moreI’ve been working on my development system lately trying to determine what operating system I want to use for it. In my "production" Mythtv server I am using Fedora. I started out with Fedora Core 5 on this box and have upgraded it to Fedora Core 8 over the years. Fedora is now up to Fedora 13, with Fedora 14 […]
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If Ferrari stopped manufacturing sports cars, would that mean that cars in general are dead? That’s the question posed to me today as I learned from confirmed sources that Niveus Media–the creators of arguably the most luxurious high end media center PC’s you could imagine–has announced to their dealers that they will be discontinuing manufacturing of all of their consumer […]
Read moreLet me start with a disclaimer, this does not pertain directly to home theaters, it is a simple lesson in my own humility. And when it comes to technology, I very much dislike feeling stupid. Read on if still interested, otherwise check out some of the new reviews. First a little background. I am not a networking engineer or network […]
Read moreThese features have been widely available in Mythtv since at least 2008 but in the last couple weeks I have finally been able to implement ACPI shutdown/wakeup for my Mythtv server. Using the information found here I have setup my backend to power off when not recording a show. The system automatically sets the time of the next recording and […]
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