Over the last year we Media Center enthusiasts have slowly seen Media Center, piece by piece, slip away. Last year at CES we saw the rise and fall of the Dish Network Media Center tuners. We saw Linksys discontinue their V2 Extenders , with the likes of Dlink and HP following suite right after. Last week at the Electronic House […]
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If you have been following the CableCard tuner for Windows Media Center PC’s news recently, you have seen announcements from two vendors–SiliconDust and Ceton–who are developing their own M-cards (multi-stream) CableCard tuners which will enable access to premium content on multiple tuners with only a single CableCard. What has been missing from news for quite some time, is where ATI […]
Read moreI don’t normally post these types of blogs, but I experienced some of the most outrageous customer service at Fry’s Electronics today, I had to share with everyone since a lot of you shop there. Click read more to continue. So summary of the occurence. Slickdeals.net found a printer that was on sale at Frys.com, the Canon PIXMA MP560 Wireless […]
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As my wife and I planned the new layout of our TV room (which I know I still need to post about), I quickly realized that I would need to replace my Harmony 880 with an RF remote. Due to cost constraints, I couldn’t go with my Christmas wish of the Universal Remote MX-880 and settled for the Harmony 890, […]
Read moreSometimes I forget how much I love SageTV, SageMC, and TMT 3. This forgetfulness usually occurs when I have started tweaking things but not found enough time to set things up properly. I had experimented with various methods to launch Blu-ray playback on an old SageTV install before I moved to Windows 7. I had gotten ripped BR folders to […]
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The recent update to the Haali Media Splitter (enabling Dolby TrueHD in DTS-MA MKV) got me thinking about revisiting our guide to getting lossless audio off the PC. When an interesting discussion got started about the benefits of bit streaming v. LPCM over at AVS Forum it was time to do some testing. To setup the test I muxed TrueHD, […]
Read moreI had some time and was playing around with the fantastic new Boxee Beta and thought you all might enjoy a quick video walk through of all the different aspects it has to offer. The video is about 9 minutes long, but if you want to skip through I start with Photos, then music, movies, app store and finally the […]
Read moreSometimes you have to wonder what’s going on at Microsoft. I just got finished watching the CES keynote from head Microsoft honcho Steve Balmer, and I was pleasantly surprised. Not only did he mention Media Center but they even mentioned Ceton and cable card. Of course using their "TV on your PC" motto, but in an odd fashion–the presenter mentioned […]
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With all the holiday gift purchase guides out there we felt we would do something a tad different. We have gone through all our MissingRemote staffers and have asked them each for what is tops on their holiday wish list. The results were interesting…hope you enjoy! Feel free to add your own items to the list and don’t forget to […]
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I experienced something this week which I felt I had to share with the community to see if it was a widely known fact or not. I joined the many of you anxious to see "The Hangover" finally be released on Blu-ray disc and quickly headed to my local Hollywood Video to rent a copy on Tuesday while I waited […]
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