If Ferrari stopped manufacturing sports cars, would that mean that cars in general are dead? That’s the question posed to me today as I learned from confirmed sources that Niveus Media–the creators of arguably the most luxurious high end media center PC’s you could imagine–has announced to their dealers that they will be discontinuing manufacturing of all of their consumer […]
Read moreSorry for the day late on this, but that just means more podcasts for you all! Lots of good variety this week in our roundup of podcasts, so enjoy! Are you ready for football? If the North American variant is not to your liking, you’ll probably want to skip ahead because between true 5.1 finally arriving on Monday night, Sunday […]
Read morePerspective is an interesting thing. I use ProMonitor 1000s across the front of my home theater so it’s easy for me to agree with the reviewer’s overall conclusion (that they sound really good), but I wouldn’t classify anything Definitive Technology makes as "budget". The first thing that impressed me was how much they reminded me of the much larger […]
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The public beta of Adobe Flash Player "Square" is now available for download. For you Linux users the beta was available for download some time ago but was later removed. I’m not a fan of Flash based websites but I’m a huge x86-64 fan boy so I couldn’t resist installing. So far seems to work very well on Windows and Linux […]
Read moreJust over two weeks after beta1, the next pre-release version of Dharma is ready for testing. [XBMC Dharma Beta 2]
Read moreEnd of days? Armageddon? Apocalypse? Not quite, but this is very uplifting news to opponents of all forms of DRM, like myself. There are rumblings that the "master key" has been found for HDCP, which would allow anyone to create matching pairs of keys. If this proves true, this is most likely the deCSS of the Blu-ray era and may […]
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According to the beta driver release notes NVIDIA has finally joined Intel and AMD\ATI in the HD Audio bitstreaming club with their GeForce GTX 460 GPUs. We will have to update our Bit Streaming HDMI HD Audio Guide. Blu-ray 3D Adds support for playing back Blu-ray 3D discs when connecting your GPU to an HDMI 1.4 3D TV. Playback requires […]
Read moreI didn’t expect to be so disappointed by missing IDF 2010 but between Sandy Bridge news and two Windows Media Center Embedded devices I am. No official word on price but if it is the same ballpark as Boxee I’ll be one happy geek. The Boxee Box isn’t the only device bragging today about its Intel Atom CE4100 processor. Two new […]
Read moreWhen I saw Big Bang Theory’s Season 3 available, it took every ounce of control to NOT select that. I figure most of us probably already know about it, so it’s too obvious a pick. Feast was too bloody to recommend to a whole group. I hope everyone has already seen One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, a Jack classic! […]
Read moreLet me start with a disclaimer, this does not pertain directly to home theaters, it is a simple lesson in my own humility. And when it comes to technology, I very much dislike feeling stupid. Read on if still interested, otherwise check out some of the new reviews. First a little background. I am not a networking engineer or network […]
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