THIS CONTEST HAS ENDED, THANKS TO ALL FOR PARTICIPATING! Is everyone still enjoying the contest?? I surely hope so, because we still have a TON of prizes! Given the upcoming holiday weekend upon us, we decided to have a special prize and make it last longer than the rest. Thanks to our friends at NVIDIA, we have up for grabs […]
Read moreWe reviewed one of ASRock’s original HTPC nettop systems last year and were very pleased with its foray into the market. It’s great to see them continue on what they started and evolve the product to be more cutting edge. This looks to be another solid competitor. At $999 it’s in a space far beyond the Boxee and Rokus of […]
Read moreThis is FAR from official, but a guy by the name of Wolfgang Herfurtner is working on an open source driver for the Kinect that would work with Media Center. Special thanks to Derek Flickinger for the heads up.
Read moreWhile this isn’t directly home theater related, I know plenty of readers today (myself included) rely on a Windows Home Server-based solution as our central storage device. While the details of what exactly this means, for now it seems Drive Extender as we know it is DEAD. While you can head over to the Windows Blog for lots of banter […]
Read moreI’ve been a fan of Noctua heat sinks and fans for some time. All my workstations and home servers use them but they are typically too large for my low-profile HTPC enclosures. I got the news today on the NH-C14 and I can’t wait to get my hands on it (I’m a heat sink\fan junkie…) It offers everything I look […]
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Background Long ago, filmmakers decided to standardize shooting film at 24 frames per second (FPS) primarily due to the high cost of film and state of the technology at the time. Film became popular worldwide and every piece of production and distribution equipment was made to support this frame rate. When television came into existence, the cathode ray tube (CRT) […]
Read moreWow…what a tough week. I haven’t seen Eat, Pray, Love…but I’ve seen enough to know it wasn’t going to be my pick. Deadwood was a good show, but I never followed it. So… MissingRemote’s Pick of the Week The Expendables Sly Stallone, Jason Statham, Jet Li, DOLPH LUNDGREN…and hey even Arnold!!! Oh this movie had such potential…and I suppose […]
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THIS CONTEST HAS ENDED! Thanks to everyone who participated. We hope everyone had a wonderful weekend and that you’re enjoying the contest giveaway as much as we are! Even if you haven’t won yet, remember we have a LOT more prizes coming so you still have plenty of time! Now onto this week’s worth of prizes! Today we’re giving away […]
Read moreThis may sound silly, but it’s features like this that keep people with their set top boxes and not interested in devices like TiVo or HTPCs. For only $5/mo, you can stream to multiple places in the house using Cox STBs. Sure you could do that with a Media Center PC and some extenders, but there’s so much more of […]
Read moreThis has been the worst kept secret for a while, as Netflix officially unveils their $7.99 streaming-only plan. Netflix has an awesome collection of pretty good quality streaming shows and movies, and their CEO has confirmed on several occasions that streaming is definitely the way they are looking for the future. What I didn’t see coming was the increase in […]
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