I’m sure most of you already know this, but for the sake of discussion…the iPad sold over 300,000 on launch day. Initial reports had it much higher, but still that’s a pretty solid number for a first gen product, right? Now, not all of those 300,000 were folks lined up at Apple Stores. Apple says the figure also includes "deliveries […]
Read moreHello to everyone from California. This week my family is on vacation in California. Yesterday we thought it would be fun to take the little tyke to Disneyland. She loved it. So did I. But the reason that I’m writing this post is because while we were there we went to the Innoventions exhibit in the Tomorrowland section. It looks […]
Read moreAnother week gone by, hopefully not too many of you fell for our little April Fool’s Joke. We had a busy week with Andy’s Moneaul HTPC case review , and then blogs from two of our newest Staff Editors–Skirge01 on Monoprice.com , and Josh (UMDivx) on Media Center’s continuing concerns . To go along with those great reads, we have […]
Read moreI haven’t had a chance to test it out, but given all the trouble reported with the last rev it has to be better 🙂 27/03/2010 New Features: Added AC-3 in MP4 support Fixed items: Show error code in GDSMux when muxing is aborted Accept more AAC media types in the muxer Use correct timescales when processing MP4 edit […]
Read moreLots of great stuff as usual to start off your month of April, enjoy! Seen in HD 28 – 3D hands on, LOTR & Avatar previews, GI Joe review After months of talking about it, speculating, and critiquing, Phil finally got a chance to actually check out a 3D HDTV and Blu-ray at his local Best Buy. Two of them […]
Read moreAPRIL FOOLS!!!! As many of you know, I sold MissingRemote.com to Mike almost a year ago due to not being able to commit time to the site. I certainly did not want this to become HTPCNews.com part 2. However, due to many changes in my personal time, I am able to dedicate more time to the site and have […]
Read moreI don’t normally post contests, but given A) the rare nature of the Ceton tuners, and B) The fact that Jere has done such a wonderful job on ShowAnalyzer, I figured you guys might be interested. Ashame I’ve already purchased ShowAnalyzer. How to enter: 1) Buy a copy of ShowAnalyzer via PayPal and enter the word "ceton" in the "Instructions […]
Read moreLet the buzz continue on the very soon to be released quad-cablecard tuners from Ceton corp. I’m sure you’ve seen the review from Engadget, but if you wanted to see a video interview , here ya go. It’s pretty basic and moreso covers general info instead of technical, but still cool. Note, Silverlight required to view the video. On10 Ceton […]
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I don’t think this is surprising at all, but still an interesting report to take a look at. I take it as a positive that even given the significant growth of web-enabled game consoles, the PC-to-TV connections also continue to grow. Parks Associates’ Digital Lifestyle: 2010 Outlook report finds that web-connected game consoles outpaced PC-to-TV connections in 2008, 2009, and […]
Read moreMy fellow Microsoft Media Center MVP Pete Stagman has a fantastic post (which he insists he will continue updating) which covers a ton of great topics if you’re in the process of installing Windows 7 on your new or old system. With a stripe set, you have 2 or more Hard Drives acting as if they are a single drive. In […]
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