Luxa2 is an HTPC-specific division of Thermaltake that just started selling HTPC cases and accessories in the last few months. The LM200 that is reviewed here is one of their first offerings. I personally like the looks of it. Internally this case is pretty bare. I have not seen a case design so simple yet so effective. The horizontal […]
Read moreSilverstone has been in the HTPC case business for a long time now. Although this case isn’t exactly new, Benchmark Reviews took the LC10B-E for a spin. HTPC cases, as well as HTPCs themselves, can be customized to fulfill various roles. As I mentioned in the intro, there are some situations in which a small, book-size Atom ITX system […]
Read moreCouldn’t test it yet, but could be the solution to enable concurrent session under Vista SP2. [?]
Read moreVia and Arcsoft have teamed up to deliver a platform that will allow you to pass full bitrate LPCM audio to your AVR. This will allow any Dolby Digital TrueHD or DTS-HD Master track to be decoded by Arcosft TMT and then passed with no compression or down sampling to your audio reciever providing the exact same audio experience as […]
Read moreAfter getting EventGhost up and running to integrate PowerDVD 9 with SageTV, I took a look at Hulu Desktop. Integration was pretty straight forward as all of the keyboard commands were available in the software. I’m too lazy to write a plugin, so instead I pulled all the relevant XML from my save file, and you can just copy/paste it […]
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As you are likely aware of by now, the United States is about to go through a changeover from analog Over-The-Air (OTA) broadcasts to Digital. We at MissingRemote.com would like to make sure that all of our affected readers are prepared for this to happen. If you are receiving your TV signals OTA and if you are tuning them with […]
Read moreIt seems that these days, in one form or another, most of us have portable MP3 players. Whether they are 1 or 2 gig players or larger 120 gig players, audio only or video and touch screen, MP3 players are everywhere today, especially with the younger crowd. For a long time, I’ve been watching the MP3 player market waiting for […]
Read moreI don’t think this would really surprise anyone given Hulu’s actions in the past year, but still dissapointing. Nothing is set in stone yet, but you kind of knew it would not stay free forever. Jonathan Miller, News Corp.’s newly-installed chief digital officer, said he envisions a future where at least some of the TV shows and movies on […]
Read moreWell, it seems more and more stuff keeps getting added to the xbox 360 dashboard while the extender portion gets no love. Just announced at E3: Last.FM support. Seeing as how development on the only Last.FM plugin I know of for VMC died quite awhile ago, this is welcome news. Microsoft and Last.FM are making sweet, sweet music on […]
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Most people in the HTPC community have a preferred media center application that handles 80% to 90% of the capabilities desired. Unfortunately, integrating an outside application to add functionality to your main front end and get to 100% seamless integration is not always easy. This is where automation tools can help. Automation tools are a class of software applications […]
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