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Time to get your new SageTV features on.  Some of the key updates are listed below.   Enabled switching between different audio tracks for MKV, ASF, MOV and AVI files when playing back with the HD Media Extender (firmware update required) Preserve watched information when doing a content reindex Program Guide data options for a tuner: choosing to use an […]

Ah, the joy that is CableCARD keeps rearing it’s ugly head.  How could something that was meant to work in the consumer’s favor get so far off the rails?  It’s no surprise that people aren’t choosing to use them in anything but set top boxes.   Cablevision’s numbers, for instance, show that its CableCARD deployments increased by less than one […]

This is an interesting article if you’ve ever wondered how one brand of flash drives compares to another.  Are they all equal?  No.   So I’ve got 21 USB drives ranging from 1gig to 64gigs in capacity from companies like Super Talent, OCZ, Patriot, Swiss Memory, Corsair, ATP and a few others throw in for good measure.  I’m only testing […]

Well this came out of nowhere. When Ricavision bit the dust I had lost hope of seeing a sideshow enabled remote anytime soon. Nice to see that Philips making one, and quite funny that they hardly even promote the fact that the remote does sideshow. Now if only Logitech would make one…   After the demise of Ricavision, all hopes […]

We’re giving away an Envive TheaterStation Media Server, in a 1 TB flavor on http://www.movie-list.com/. We thought this would be a great opportunity for your readers, and yourselves, to potentially win one of our $3K Media Servers. There is a static sign-up link on the right side of the page. At some point, we’d love to do a give-away through […]

Atom + 9400M = the ultimate low power, low noise, small form factor HTPC client?!    Atom is honestly fast enough for many tasks, delivering the performance of a mainstream notebook from 4 years ago. The problem is that there are some applications that are commonplace today that can’t run on Atom. HD video playback isn’t possible on Atom + […]

Been a while since I’ve seen a TV review listed here.  So here’s one for you guys to check out.   We have been testing the Toshiba Regza 32RV530U 32" for a few weeks now and we are quite pleased with the entire product. The build quality of this television is very nice, the picture quality is superb, good audio […]

This is very cool.  Granted the rest of the system was fairly new they used a very cheap CPU and video card and successfully were able to playback HD video without much issue.  Once this makes its way into released applications (right now it’s all in patches) the general Linux community will see a nice performance boost.   It’s fairly […]

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I noticed on babgvant’s blog that a new version of comskip is out and it seems to be the cat’s meow in terms of accuracy and stability. Two of my favorite terms when related to HTPC software.   Erik posted a version of Comskip (0.80.007) over the weekend to the donators site that not only sorted the crashing issues I […]