Kaleidescape Brings DRM to Blu-ray Copying

Kaleidescape systems are super slick, but with the recent legal troubles you have be curious of things to come. This announcement is somewhat underwhelming. So you can store your Blu-rays digitally, but then you have to find and put the disk back in the drive in order to play it….so….what’s the point?        The new M500 can copy […]

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Netflix Now Streaming HD Movies to PCs & Macs

 We’ve been waiting for this for a long time. No word if Media Center’s Netflix plugin works with these, so if anyone would care to test and report, I’m sure many are wondering.     A Netflix representative confirmed that Netflix is now streaming more than half of all HD titles to PCs and Macs in HD. To tell if […]

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Selectable Output Control

  Selectable Output Control is a technology mandate promoted by movie studios to protect the “early” distribution of movies over cable television. It’s a battle over the video outputs on the back of your cable box or DVR. Who gets to control which outputs you can use—the movie studios or you? On May 7, 2010 the FCC decided that the […]

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May 11th Blu-ray Releases

Nice amount of selections out this week. I haven’t seen Daybreakers yet, but I’m always a fan of some nice vampire action, this one with a twist in that the vampires run the world. I saw Legion with anticipation, and was quickly disappointed. Edge of Darkness was a pretty decent thriller from Mel Gibson, with some nice surprises throughout. If […]

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FCC Allows Blocking of Set-Top Box Outputs

There’s just so many things wrong with this, but i’ll let you all begin the discussion. It’s such a ridiculous argument to justify getting their way. As if this will stop ANY piracy. Once again, legitimate honest consumer loses out.   ”We are unsure when the FCC has ever before given private entities the right to disable consumers’ products in […]

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EFO Wireless Keyboard Comparison

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Review: EFO Wireless Keyboard Comparison   Recently we looked at the EFO RF Wireless Handheld Keyboard which worked pretty well overall.  Today we are going to compare that with the new Bluetooth version, the EFO Bluetooth Wireless Handheld Keyboard.  How well will bluetooth compare to RF?  What else has been changed with this keyboard?  Is it worth the additional cost?  […]

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IOGEAR GKM561R Wireless Keyboard

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  IOGEAR GKM561R Wireless Keyboard Finding the right wireless keyboard and mouse for your HTPC can be a huge chore.   For me the ideal solution has to have a wireless range greater than 10’, good battery life and combines a compact keyboard with a pointing device in the same chassis.   The IOGEAR GKM561R has the looks and specs to get […]

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Lian Li launches PC-V352 HTPC case

Aluminum case manufacturer Lian Li is known for making great quality parts, but after some lackluster initial HTPC chassis sales, I wouldn’t have blamed them for leaving. However, this is a neat looking design, and the $169 price tag is fairly in line with everything else. Although…why black and Red?     The new PC-V352 is made out of aluminium […]

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Six Questions: Blockbuster CEO Jim Keyes

I always am intrigued by how open some of these CEO’s will be in these Q&A’s. Here is the head of Blockbuster, who isn’t shy about blaming Viacom for their debt and bragging about their not having the 28-day new release window. Blockbuster’s strategy to be a multichannel entertainment solution is strongly supported by our studio partners, and we believe […]

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