More of an overview than a detailed how-to, Walter Mossberg does cover the several nuances of upgrading your Vista system to Windows7. The most notable item is that you cannot upgrade from a 32-bit to a 64-bit version of the operating system during an upgrade. In my experience on my laptop, the Windows7 "upgrade" took several hours to transfer and […]
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Not even a month after my Battle of the Media Center Managers article and already there have been SO many updates to a multitude of offerings. But hey, it’s all for the benefit if we continue to get cooler and more modern user interfaces that actually work well, right?!? The Digital Lifestyle Improvements: Better handling of large databases. Better […]
Read moreA different kind of Media Center Show podcast from Ian this week, but fear not, you know Ian slips in bits and bites from the past week in Media Center all throughout! Looks like an interesting show. Show Times: 00:23 Coming up this week 01:59 Parental control 04:20 AMD Release WHQL Graphics Drivers for Windows 7 RTM 05:00 Hauppauge, MaxLinear […]
Read moreThis is a pretty basic summary of the various options out there besides your standard set top box from your cable company, but I’m sure some people will appreciate the summary . Should be noted this video is from C|Net, so without suprise the first 2 options they mention are TiVo and AppleTV…but fear not, they do eventually break down […]
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This board is a little different than most "HTPC-specific" motherboards, but sometimes people are looking for a hybrid system to power games as well as media center content, and this board is a beast in a smaller micro-ATX chassis. If you need smaller though, I’m sure a mini-ITX board will eventually come out with at least some of these features. […]
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I recently found myself sitting in the family room and I realized something. My receiver has only been calibrated once since I pulled it out of the box about 10 years ago (has it been that long already?). Needless to say, we’ve moved since then, and re-arranged our family room three or four times at least. As you can […]
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I think we’ve seen a couple of these before, but I think even if we’ve seen them 50 times I still can’t get sick of being jeal…err…admiring these amazing home theaters. Guess I’ll keep playing the lotto! HGTV The challenge for this home theater was to create a world-class screening room in a neighborhood where high-end theaters are standard… […]
Read moreA great article by the HDGuru gang, and unfortunately it’s not a clean cut yes or no as I’m sure many of you would love to see. The truth is stated in every Extended Warranty article there is–it really depends. I used to work at Best Buy as a technician (before Geek Squad–yes I’m that old), and I can say […]
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Here’s a look at the new WHS from HP. I mainly liked this article because of the pretty pictures. Boing Boing HP’s MediaSmart LX195 is a file-storing box that works great if you have Windows PCs and like the ease of Windows Home Server. It even syncs with web-based services like Flickr. But its focus is on the media-sharing […]
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With a caveat though, this discussion will definitely NOT be Sonos stepping into the video streaming, so if that’s what you were thinking (like me). But how cool would that be?!?! Oh well, in the meantime it’s good to see Sonos continuing to evolve their product and brand. Hopefully they maintain the same methods which brought them success in the […]
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