Another fairly slow week of releases to continue the start of 2010, but there’s a couple decent choices here. If you need some Stallone or Arnold nostalgia, Cliffhanger was an entertaining one finally being released on Blu-ray, since I’m sure you were all clammoring for it and Arnold’s Last Action Hero. Halloween 2 was another fairly brutal offering from Rob […]
Read moreIf you’ve been looking to get your hands on the new Radeon 5-series…well…supply is still super limited. But the good news is it looks like it’s definitely going to be worth the wait. SCPR Gaming aside, the HD 5000 series has a couple of other benefits that can’t be assigned an objective value. ATI’s new EyeFinity multi-display technology allows users […]
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This is pretty cool for SageTV users, and man Plucky has done quite the work here. The interface looks beautiful and allows users to leverage the massive MyMovies database. GeekTonic If you’ve ever used Windows MediaCenter, you are likely familiar with MyMovies a popular Movie metadata cataloging and management add-on for MediaCenter. SageTV has some of these capabilities now with […]
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The recent update to the Haali Media Splitter (enabling Dolby TrueHD in DTS-MA MKV) got me thinking about revisiting our guide to getting lossless audio off the PC. When an interesting discussion got started about the benefits of bit streaming v. LPCM over at AVS Forum it was time to do some testing. To setup the test I muxed TrueHD, […]
Read moreI had some time and was playing around with the fantastic new Boxee Beta and thought you all might enjoy a quick video walk through of all the different aspects it has to offer. The video is about 9 minutes long, but if you want to skip through I start with Photos, then music, movies, app store and finally the […]
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I’m not exactly sure why this would be limited to displaying 60" but the idea is unique. No word on actual specs or pricing, and I’m always suspect of these "all-in-one" devices given if any issues arise, but the concept is in the right place. SlashGear Demoing at CES, MSI is “combing the brilliance of a projector with the […]
Read moreI’m not sure if I would feel comfortable always having my Xbox 360 on 24/7, but the concept here is fantastic, allowing you to use it as your set top box as well. I have a hunch cable companies would still find ways to charge you extra for this, but Engadget’s video below is pretty seamless. Not close to as […]
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I’ve not heard of this company before, but they have an innovative little product coming out. It’s a bit costly at $300–which for that price you may be tempted to just spend a bit more and build your own, but the design is pretty minimal if that’s what you’re looking for. Engadget NUU Media’s NUU player runs the grown-up […]
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Shortly after the announcement of the public Beta for Boxee, Damian has a complete review with a ton of screenshots of it up at his website. I’ve been using the Beta for a while, and while it still has occasional glitches, it is miles ahead (UI mainly) from what Alpha offered. Don’t forget to head over to www.boxee.tv to enjoy […]
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This is an interesting technology. I’m not immediately sure of what implications this can have on the HTPC community with all our HTPC’s and Extender devices, but think if your SageTV Extender had this push technology within it, so you could choose when to view what…whether you want to use the built in UI or if you want to send […]
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