At Cebit this year, ZOTAC unveiled three new ZBOX mini-PCs. At the show, ZOTAC was also showing off a prototype motherboard for a new generation of ZBOX machines, a motherboard that was only a fraction the size of a mini-ITX board and even smaller than VIA’s pico-ITX standard. It merited little more than a blurb in the Cebit write-ups that […]
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Roku has quietly begun shipping a new model, the Roku HD. We can often look at the specs and price of a new device, and see where it fits in the manufacturer’s line-up, but the Roku HD seems to defy traditional attempts at pigeonholing. The Roku HD is priced the same as the Roku 2 HD at $59.99, but drops […]
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XBMC has always had a strong connection with the Linux community and been well supported across the major distros. Indeed, the recent 11.0 “Eden” release came with a big change-up in the Live CD version, which is now called XBMCbuntu and offers a complete Ubuntu desktop installation lurking in the background for anyone interested in leaving the warm embrace of the […]
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The prospect of wiring surround or multi-zone loudspeakers is often fraught with difficulty and may be a job best left to someone who can open up walls, fish speaker wire and install a wallplate with wire terminals. Instead of hiring a costly contractor or spending several hours and dollars in parts, Aperion Audio presents the Zona Wireless Speaker System which […]
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D-Link added another option to the over the top (OTT) media streamer market today with the just released “MovieNite”. While the name isn’t that interesting, features like 1080p, VUDU and Netflix coupled with a price of $60 are. The PR (available after the click) doesn’t mention if Netflix is the full fidelity experience (5.1 + subtitles) so we’ll have to […]
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It’s finally there. As of late last night/early this morning, MythTV 0.25 is finally available officially. After a mere “516 days (that’s 1 year, 4 months, 30 days)” according to the developers, a new version is available. This update has been long awaited in the MythTV community and it sounds like a lot of work went into it. I look […]
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At CES this year, Lenovo was showing off their new TV, the K91. The K91 was a 55-inch TV, but the interesting part was that Lenovo was building their new smart TV platform on Ice Cream Sandwich, the latest version of Android. Now comes word that Lenovo is working on a 42-inch follow-up, the K71. Though smaller, the K71 should […]
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I recently had a Blu-ray player die right in the middle of family movie marathon night, leaving me wishing that my HTPC was equipped to take its place. An HTPC like the ZOTAC ZBOX Blu-ray AD05 Plus would have come in mighty handy. The AD05 is the latest in ZOTAC’s line of Blu-ray equipped mini-PCs. The base model is a […]
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Most conversations regarding cord cutters tend to focus on the impact of cable company revenues as subscribers jump ship for the considerably less expensive option of streaming media services such as Netflix and Hulu Plus. Not everyone sees this trend continuing, in large part because of rises in streaming media subscription rates. The Convergence Consulting Group has issued a report […]
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Last week, Microsoft unveiled three new video apps for the Xbox 360, including the highly anticipated Comcast XFINITY and HBO Go apps. Unfortunately, it turned out that these two particular apps would end up being mutually exclusive installations as the XFINITY app would only work for Comcast subscribers and the HBO Go app would not work for Time Warner and, […]
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