Stay tuned for another great guide from Matt. After I finish posting up The Daily Button Matt’s guide will follow in a few minutes :). Content In a yawner of aannouncement, Hulu has announced they now have movie trailers . Woo Hooo Home Theater Keeping wires out of site is an absolute neccesity in the WAF department. It is a […]
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I got inspired the other day to delve into one of the pervasive questions in Windows Media Center lore: the question of switched digital video (SDV) for CableCARD equipped Media Center PCs. The solution that is being put forth is the Tuning Adapter. The Tuning Adapter mediates between a unidirectional CableCARD device and an SDV enabled cable system. I’ll describe how […]
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We Got Served brings you a preview of what we might be able to expect with Media Center 7. There have been some tweaks here and there but I do not see anything to revolutionary at this point. The new info. screens bring a lot of usability to the table that should help a lot of newbies. The Mini-guide has gotten […]
Read moreI got wind of MTV’s new music video site and I was blown away :). There are very few ads, the video quality is decent and the hardest of all to believe is that MTV is playing music videos. Here is a sample from a legendary performer. Weird Al Yankovic |MTV Music
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Content EngadgetHD has their weekly roundup of this week’s Blu-ray releases . It used to be pretty slim pickin’s for quality Blu-ray releases and it turns out this week is feeling nostalgic. Tinker Bell, for my young one of course, is one I might be interested in. Tivo is getting some Disney love via CinemaNow. You read a lot of […]
Read moreI am not sure we have many Mac users here but in case you are a fan of all that is apple, Netflix is enabling streaming on all Intel Macs through the use of Silverlight. Crunch Gear LOS GATOS, Calif., October 27, 2008 – Netflix, Inc. (NASDAQ: NFLX), the world’s largest online movie rental service, today announced it has begun […]
Read moreOk, I finally did it. I found out where my video issue was while running Mythtv under Linux. The symptom that I saw was that when using xv-blit as the rendering setting under the Playback setup menu, Mythtv would show the first three or so seconds of the video and then appear to hang. When I look at the terminal […]
Read moreI’m annoyed right now. Intel apparently can’t deliver a motherboard that has working hardware acceleration of their new X4500HD graphics chip. It works on all the third party motherboards just fine. They updated the bios and broke hardware acceleration of all the blu-ray formats. Classic case of hardware company that can’t write software. They need to fix whatever it is […]
Read moreIf you recall, earlier this year we put out a call for help for graphics artists. Karl answered the call and will be helping MissingRemote.com with another revamp of The Daily Button. I would like to thank everyone who has stepped up to help MissingRemote.com. It really means a lot to us that folks would step up to make MissingRemote.com […]
Read moreHalloween is just around the corner, and Dave Zatz of zatznotfunny.com found a fun little indie short film about a man, his TiVo, and how it changed his life… {youtube}akl3I5tYy2g{/youtube}
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