When money is no object, and you simply must have the best home theater kit there is no substitute for Lumagen’s video processors. That said, I can’t remember ever seeing a proper review of one of their products – until now. When Lumagen released their Radiance XD processor, it was a huge deal. When most displays and projectors lacked anything […]
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I like to see my AVR (pretty lights and all that :)), but if a no-visible-AVR install or displays in HDMI-ain’t-gunna-get-there locations is on your wish list, HDBaseT is a great way to make it happen. Integra just announced the DHC-60.5 (pre-amp) and DTR-60.5 (AVR) with HDBaseT, so we can add two more options for the custom installer (CI) to […]
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Looks like it’s a little DIY to setup, but either way a really nice addition to MediaPortal’s Feature set. Requirements These patches are compatible with MediaPortal 1.3 and 1.4. Please refer to the MediaPortal requirements for further details. Supported Tuners The following CableCARD tuners have been tested and are compatible: Silicondust HDHomeRun PRIME* Ceton InfiniTV 4 PCIe Ceton InfiniTV 6 […]
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When I was building my home automation (HA) system, the lack of devices and good integration between those devices was the main reason I settled on Z-Wave. In many ways Zigbee is a superior technology though, and also has the benefit of being supported by many chip manufactures (Z-Wave is controlled by Sigma Designs) so it’s great to see product […]
Read moreThe latest version of mediabrowser is available for public beta testing and is accessible at their website http://www.mediabrowser.tv/ This new mediabrowser 3 offers user profiles and a server component—where the server is a centralized solution to maintain your library, plugins and preferences in one location. In addition, they also offer a stand-alone mediabrowser theater that has integrated the VLC player […]
Read moreMy Channel Logos is a great app for Windows Media Center users, that helps tweak the TV Guide listings to be easier to read. It modifies the channel mappings and will show the channel icons next to the channel numbers, making it a much more attractive screen. Well they have a new release out now with quite a few improvements: […]
Read moreAsus announces a New VivoPC home theater PC for use connected to your TV. They are claiming it can double as your main PC. They don’t say much what hardware is in the machine, but they say it has the new 802.11ac standard wireless for HD streaming over wireless. It does have Windows 8 with fully upgradable hard drive and […]
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As we march towards more efficient CPUs it is great to see OEMs taking advantage of the inherent capabilities to deliver smaller form factors. We saw it with Intel’s NUC, where they provided a very cabable bare-bones HTPC, and now GIGABYTE has come out with something similar. I’m really happy to see more vendors/competition in this space. Full PR after […]
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While I wish that they would do more to officially embrace a position in orchestrating the home theater it is still interesting to see how AVR OEMs evolve their products. At least from Onkyo it appears to be the year of integrated Wi-Fi & Bluetooth – which is a nice get. I’m not that interested in their custom integrator (CI) […]
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