Once upon a time, Microsoft had a service called Xbox Live Diamond. It was a short-lived, and rather pitiful, discount card program for Xbox Live Gold subscribers. Sounds like we might be getting a new take on Xbox Live Diamond that could actually offer some true value. The Xbox 360 already offers IPTV funtionality with Mediaroom integration for interested service […]
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Here’s a nifty little board from the gang at Zotac, full of features including wireless, maybe your next HTPC board? Today sees us still keeping our focus on small form factor in general but taking a look at a slightly different product, that shares the same market. The Zotac H67-ITX WiFi is still aimed at the HTPC market but differs […]
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Having seen Missing Remote’s reviews of the Intel Media Series motherboards it should be clear that they provide a solid foundation for a home theater PC (HTPC) build, but because they also include Intel NICs (network interface controller) there is a strong case to use one for your next server build as well. Unfortunately, Intel does not support server operating […]
Read moreThis is the first I’ve heard of this issue, and since I’ve been using SSDs and S3 standby for quite a while I was skeptical at first. After checking it out there does seem to be a serious problem (some users report a bricked drive!) going on at least with SandForce based SSDs and standby. Anyone had an issue with […]
Read moreAfter an extended weekend vacation I came home to the dreaded “red box” notification icon reporting that two of my systems on my network had failed to back up. So for the past 5 days that I was gone my main HTPC and my office pc had failed to backup. While I am grateful nothing had happened in those 5 […]
Read moreFinally some official information regarding the future version of Microsoft Windows, and boy can you say “radically different”? It feels like they’re really trying to push the whole singular interface across devices…not sure how I feel about that yet. The fundamental goal with the new operating system, which is being shown for the first time at D9, is to create […]
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THIS CONTEST HAS ENDED!! THANKS TO ALL FOR PARTICIPATING!! Something new to spice up the work week, this time around the contest is EXCLUSIVELY FOR FACEBOOK AND TWITTER! Courtesy of CyberLink, we are giving away another copy of PowerDVD 11 Ultra, the brand new Blu-ray and movie playback software! We took an in-depth look at the latest iteration of […]
Read moreDid you know that Computex was going on overseas right now? It’s one of the biggest trade shows of the year with almost all of the major computer companies showing their latest and greatest. I’m not going to bombard the homepage with one-off articles and press announcements from here, instead I’ll use this post in our forums to keep updating […]
Read moreThe quest for a great HTPC keyboard is always a challenge, especially with more of us cutting the cord to watch various streaming options which require a keyboard and mouse. Here’s one from Enermax that aims to fit the bill. A bit big for my liking, but looks like it does the job. I do like that it has a […]
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Oh, the irony. A little over a week ago I found myself thinking that I hadn’t written a blog post in quite a while and I realized that it was because my setup was running so smoothly. There was just nothing to write about because I hadn’t needed to do anything with it for quite a while. Little did I […]
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