Once upon a time, in a not so distant land, LCDs were considred the red-headed step child of the TV world. Poor response times (motion issues) and iffy blacks that looked alot like grey never thrust LCDs into the forefront of HT news. However, the last year as brought resolution to these problems. Of course, not all TV's are created equal. […]
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I think I slept through this class in college, it is a good thing Audioholics is giving a refresher course on ground loops. We have a resident EE, so if you have any questions after the article, I am sure John could answer a few. Generally you can identify a ground loop by a low hum in your speakers or […]
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Chris Lanier, purveyor of MCE news, brings word that MCE Tunes 2.0 is out. New for this version is support for extenders. Its a pretty simple setup, all you have to do is run the config on your server and bam you should be have iTunes anywhere in the house. You can check out his blog post here. Plugin page: […]
Read moreEver wondered what makes and HDTV and what makes a monitor? Well EngadgetHD has such the answer for you today. The even have a fancy graphic with all of the resolutions since the caveman era. I am not to sure what else to say on this one, except for you to go read the article:) From the article: If you […]
Read moreIf you are looking to get started on a whole house content distribution system, EH has a good article covering the basics. Its hard to decide which route to take. I would be inclined to distribute content with a server and have independent players for each room. EH's is a centralized storage and players and running the A/V wires to […]
Read moreDolby, the maker of many formats, is making a run at your TV. Their newest technology aims to keep the volume consistent when going from different inputs or even from a commercial to the show. There are other technologies out there that does this, but can introduce distortion and popping to the sound. I am sure this has the potential […]
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This really does deserve an epic theme song. After a long time in the waiting the epic S21T has arrived! This one piece aluminum curved beauty should satisfy your need for storage with support for 10 hard drives. 10 X 750GB is a lot of storage no matter how you look at it. You don't get very far […]
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Chris caught word of an awesome lil MCE plugin which will detect & automatically record TV Shows based on your preferences & ratings. Not sure if it works with Vista, and the style is for XP, but it's awesome if you were looking for something TIVO-like. For the first time, Media Center users can rate their recordings with MyTV Genie, […]
Read moreReporting to you LIVE from Miami, Florida, I just saw this news & had to post it. Bravo for Sage for really jumping on this & making a nice mark. So don't be sad just because WINDOWS VISTA MCE won't work great with WINDOWS Media Server. 😛 "The SageTV Media Server running on the AMD LIVE! Home Media Server platform […]
Read moreI downloaded Real Genius. The 1 hour, 40 minute flick took about 16 minutes to finish on my 6mbit connection, which was being tapped at about 2mbits. And the stream started playing almost immediately. Netflix claims it can scale quality based on your bandwidth, and how hard their servers are being slammed, so quality will vary. Quality was outstanding, with […]
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