Nothing revolutionary here, but a great example of how a family is utilizing home automation to do pretty much everything. Let's just hope HAL..err….Rosie…doesn't get mad & try to kill them all, eh? 😛 Rosie has control of lights, the garage door, the thermostat and fans. She can also play MP3s, monitor the stock market, provide the weather forecast and […]
Read moreI don't know about you guys, but my STB is no where near as loud as my 360, even when it's just doing basic extender functions. Plus the fact that it'll then compete with it's own MCE boxes makes no sense to me (why no mention of IPTV for Vista MCE?!?!). But hey…I just work here 😛 With its software […]
Read moreThis can only mean one thing…..lower prices on better technology! In the end, the consumer wins…we hope. LG Electronics (LGE) recently said shipments of its PDPs (plasma display panels) dropped 36% sequentially to 580,000 units in the fourth quarter of 2006 due to sever competition from LCD technology in the worldwide 40-inch-class TV market. Read the rest here.
Read moreWhilst browsing over at PVRWire, I came across this story about HAVA releasing a Slingbox competitor. It performs much like a Slinbox by allowing the streaming of Mpeg-2 and Mpeg-4 video to multiple PCs and it can be used as a TV tuner by Vista. The big question that I never see answered is how the GUI is. There is […]
Read moreIn the not so distant past, a 1Ghz PC was all that was needed to keep your HTPC chuggin along. However, next gen DVD playback, HDTV, and Vista are set to change those rules. You can count on seeing dual core CPUs and 2GB of ram to ensure smooth playback. Hardware Zone takes a look at AVIVO and PureVideo and […]
Read morePanasonic has made a few comments indicating they are throwing their corporate weight behind plasma. As the article starts out, its not hard to see this in action with the amount of Panasonic ads and other marketing efforts. They talk the talk but do the walk the walk? Well Ultimate A/V certainly thinks they are not up to the quality […]
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Its always best to come to an unboxing with a bundle of ones for the show. Not much else to say, except to click through to see a few sexy pictures of the new hybrid player from LG. It certainly has my interest, I am more of a movie guy and not much of an extras guy, so the lack […]
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There is a lot less skin then the Debbie Does …. series but for HTPC geeks its just as entertaining. They cover all of the proper HTPC and silent computing companies. Arctic Cooling, Antec, Seagate and a host of others can be found by clicking the link. From the article: Featured at the presentation were two new cases derived from […]
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Well I should know better then to forget the latest MCE show in my news, but everyonce in a while it slips by me. This week Ian talks with Todd Headrick from the Windows Home Server team. He also had the chance to talk with the a TVTonic rep. Podcast Summary: Listen Here: As you may have seen Microsoft are […]
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EMERYVILLE, Calif. – Jan. 22, 2007 — Orb NetworksTM announced today that Sony® PlayStation 3TM (PS3) game enthusiasts can now view and share all of the digital entertainment stored on their home PCs directly on their living room TV screen, using the company's software as the bridge. Orb turns the home PC into a personal broadcasting system, and lets users […]
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