A rather quick review for those interested. Boston Acoustics’ proprietary drivers, superior engineering and high-quality cabinetry combine to produce the stealthy VS 344 floor-standing loudspeaker. Its articulate yet powerful bass, open midrange and refined highs make for a speaker that is worthy of ample praise. [Digital Trends]
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You may have seen some posts around the internet of some other developers with some "webguide-like" software for remotely scheduling and managing your Media Center recordings, but they all took a fair amount of effort. Well, if you have been intimidated by those, then you’re in luck. Big Screen EPG allows you to do everything you used to love with […]
Read moreFor a company that’s usually ahead of the game on trends, the AppleTV is just a weird thing. Apparently sales grew 35% this last holiday season, which is pretty astonishing given the bloody thing hasn’t changed in years! I would like to see them seriously commit to this space, as I think they could push everyone to make for a […]
Read moreWe’ve had some discussions in our forums regarding using netbooks as your HTPC, so these Flash updates are critical since the CPU’s in those devices simply can’t manage to handle the high resolutions if they can’t offload to the graphics. Good news indeed. Techreport According to the folks at Engadget, the beta 3 release adds support for two mobile graphics […]
Read moreEnjoy the shows this week! Don’t forget to follow us on twitter, @missingremote The Media Center Show #245 – Networked Tuners This week Garry Whittiker and Jason Coombes join me to discuss networked tuners using DVBLink, Jason has all his tuners pooled in a Windows Home Server and then is using DVBLink to distribute the tuners around the network. Its […]
Read moreThis is where a strong community is so important to the success of a company like Boxee. The latest AppleTV Firmware had changed and broken Boxee’s ability to run on it, so some users decided to fix it for themselves, and then share to the world! Kudos! Boxee Blog You can now, once more, pwn your AppleTV following these super […]
Read more…for everyone except Blockbuster Video, of course. So….Blockbuster Video, who rent movies to customers, do not get a 30 day window and can continue to charge more. Where Redbox and Netflix….who rent movies to customers….DO have to have the window? Anyone else think the 30-day window idea came from Blockbuster? Home Media Mag Keyes attributed the miss to big-box retailers […]
Read moreLooks like a new update for Windows Media Center is on. I wasn’t even aware they were working on one, but it looks like it has some nice updates including one to address some digital cable tuner issues. Proceed at your own risk however, sometimes the updates will do more harm than good! The February 2010 Cumulative Update for Windows […]
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My buddy Pete Brown has to be loving all the keyboard news for today! Where as the Adesso keyboard is a much larger size, it looks like this one is battling against my favorite Dinovo Mini keyboard, being much smaller. Not sure how great the controls will be, but check the link for a video of it in action. Electric […]
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Boy, I wish my apartment complex (any of them!) would have invested in something like this! Pretty sweet…hopefully they let their customers bring their own movies to really enjoy it! EH For the audio, an in-wall Triad speaker system offers surround sound unobtrusively, and Marantz electronics and Elan controls provide the system’s functionality and ease of use. On the […]
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