It seems that it’s been a while since I last updated my blog. At that time I was looking at running the various Mythtv-based linux distrobutions. Among the distrobutions that I had mentioned are Mythdora, Mythbuntu and LinHES. At the time, I had tested Mythdora. Well, I recently found myself with a bit of free time so I decided to load […]
Read moreWow, I can’t remember any other week with this many Blu-ray releases of which I barely recognized any of them. I saw Beautiful, that was a pretty entertaining and messed up movie. But the pick is obvious… MissingRemote’s Pick of the Week Hot Tub Time Machine Plot is simple–4 buddies enter a hot tub only to be transported back in […]
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The question has been posed more times than I can count, and part of the fault lies on the HDMI specification itself which took computer manufacturers seemingly forever to figure it out. The holy grail of getting Blu-ray from your HTPC to your home theater was always being able to bit stream HD audio formats, such as Dolby TrueHD and […]
Read moreNoctua has an excellent reputation for making quiet fans, so if you have a full height HTPC case, this might be the right HSF for you. Noctua’s NH-U9B SE2 cooler is a special edition of the NH-U9B cooler for HTPCs or smaller cases. The NH-U9B SE2 now comes with two of Noctua’s NF-B9 92mm fans and adds support for […]
Read moreIf you have the budget, adding a SSD to your HTPC is a solid way to improve performance and best of all they are completely silent and produce very little heat. It is hard to believe that almost two years has passed since we first rounded-up some of the first solid state drive offerings for the PC. Since that […]
Read moreSilverstone has been making HTPC cases for the longest time, and they’re always a pretty solid option. They make some that are roomy enough to handle any specs you’d want to throw at it. And at $140 it’s not an unreasonable asking price either, although no volume knobs or VFD displays…if that sorta stuff interests you. Today we look at […]
Read moreLooks like eMachines is jumping on the SFF Nettop bandwagon. Priced at $299, doesn’t seem like an awful idea. And with decent enough specs, HDMI and an Nvidia graphics…maybe it can do the HTPC duties. Inside the small HTPC is an AMD Athlon II NEO CPU, GeForce 9200 graphics, and 2GB of RAM. In addition to HTPC duties, eMachines says […]
Read moreShocking….another extender device 🙂 But hey, it’s Friday. HTPCs and media centres are growing in popularity as our houses become far more linked in terms of media. However, these systems can still be too expensive for some, or too big, too complicated; what’s a guy to do? One option it seems is to get yourself a network media player. […]
Read moreAnother solid receiver offering for only $600, and seems to have a plethora of features if you’re in the market. The RX-V667 handles legacy signals with kid gloves via a new high quality video processing with precise deinterlacing, motion adaptive and edge adaptive deinterlacing and multi-cadence (incl. 3-2 pull-down) detection. Again this feature set is typically not found in sub […]
Read moreHere are the podcasts from this week, lots to choose from. Enjoy! The guys talk about their recent trip to the Southeast Linux Fest in Spartanburg, South Carolina. Many tvs and Blu-Ray DVD players now do Netflix streaming. [MythTVCast – Episode 21] Encoding and ripping…. DVDFab HD Decrypter and XviD4PSP are your free picks for archiving your discs! What is […]
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