The Daily Button – November 30th, 2007

We have just over 15 guides related to setting up your Media Center PC. All of our guides can be found by clicking on the guides button on the menu bar. Here are a few guides cherry picked for your reading pleasure.

ATSC/NTSC Tuner Guide

Adding High Def DVD to your HTPC

Processor Buying Guide


Things brings us to our semi-annual forum roundup inspired by WAIcool’s WAF Tales. Hop in and share your WAF horror stories; even stories of romance and wonder. You can also get in on a discussion about Firingsquad’s HTPC troubles . Is it just another obvious editorial about the continual iffy software state of HTPCs or does it provide something useful to the HTPC community. Is no one watching anything these days? The Movie, DVD and TV Talk forum has been dead for a month now. Get in there and post! If you are interested in squeezing the last few % of pq out of your DVD or TV playback, be sure to look at Jeremy’s FFDshow guide .


Video Card News: Sparkle 8800 GT Passive review at Anandtech

Video Card News: Inno3D GeForce 8800 OC review at NV News 

Video Card News: Nvidia GeForce 8800 GT review at Digit Life 

Video Card News: Asus EN8600GT review at Hardware Logic 

Video Card News: Sapphire HD 2600 XT review at Sharky Extreme 

Motherboard News: Gigabyte GA-73UM-S2H 7150 IGP review at Tweaktown

CPU News: Phenom 9600 review at Neoseeker

Sound Card News: Asus Xonar D2XD review at Elite Bastards 

PSU News: Sparkle 220W 80 PLus FlexATX PSU review at SilentPCReview

Home Automation News: Lutron AurRa Wireless lighting control review at Sound & Vision Mag

Home Theater Receiver News: Denon AVR-3808CI review at c|net 

Home Theater Receiver News: Yamaha RX-V1800 review at Home Theater Mag

High Def DVD News: Panasonic DMP-BD30 review at Ultimate A/V mag 

Speaker Review: Klipsch Quintet III review at Audioholics