GeekTonic has a great guest blog covering all things Analog Hole–that beauty in your set top box that allows you to connect it to your HTPC and import high definition content without copy protection. The fear among all us HTPC users though, is what happens when/if that hole is plugged by the cable companies? Luckily there is an answer, and […]
Read moreI had the privelege of joining Ian’s guests for this week’s roundtable podcast of The Media Center Show, episode 219 covering "TV on the PC." It was a fantastic roundtable and we covered a ton of topics. Joining me on the show was Ben Drawbaugh, Garry Whittaker, Josh Shenkle and of course, Mr. Ian Dixon himself! Show Times: 00:23 Coming […]
Read moreI’m not sure how to interpret this report of some technology being investigated. It sounds pretty cool on what hand, but I’m with the other comments on the concern of privacy in having a camera in my DVR. Light Reading Prime Sense, an Israel-based company founded in 2005 that raised $20.4 million in "B" round funding last May, showed off […]
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Here’s a great little compilation of DLNA-compatible software titles and some brief comparison items for each of them. Tube Centric The list contains objective and subjective information on the these Media Servers as compiled by tubeCentric.tv staff. The Ease of Setup column attempts to give a "scale of 1 to 10" rating of how easy the Media Server was […]
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Mini-ITX motherboards are all the rage these days. With their small size and the improvement of on-board capabilities, it has made these types of boards all the more attractive to HTPC builders. Silverstone’s offering for this series is nicer than some of the other options out there, using black aluminum finish on the chassis and utilize a slim-laptop optical drive […]
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Wow, this is not the week to be a DVD Copying company. First Real Networks got shot down for their RealDVD software, and now Kaleidescape had their court decision overturned. For those unfamiliar, Kaleidescape produces some super high end media servers with a custom built platform exclusively designed for digitally stored DVD movies and music collections. They made headlines a […]
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I love those "Show off your Home Theater" setup. I hope to one day bring back the old gallery setup that HTPCnews used to have. In the meantime, if anyone is interested in showing off their own setups with a guest blog, let me know. We’d be more than happy to host your images for the article as I love […]
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I wonder if Dell caught wind of this Lenovo HTPC and wanted to one up them with the news below. Or maybe it happened vice versa? Either way, we at least do have specs and pricing on this offering. Based on the X4500 graphics hardware accelleration does work pretty well, even on an E5200 old school dual core Pentium chip. […]
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You would think that it would be easier to monetize online videos since you know exactly how many people view every bit of the video available. But I guess old dogs take a while to learn new tricks, and they are still barely trickling into online ads for videos. The only part that bugs me is when there is an […]
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Check out this cool little box which Gizmodo has come across. With HDMI on the back the possibilities of this being a valid HTPC client device seem quite real. No specs or pricing available yet, but this thing is TINY!
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