Not sure if this will ever see the light of day, but looks like Apple's looking at expanding their media center-ness. Tough thing with this type of plan coming from Apple, is that all the hardware has to be bought from Apple, so it won't be cheap. Gizmodo Each Apple component you own will have a software module that plugs […]
Read moreYou know the drill, it is Thursday already. This week up, Ian's got Francis, development manager for Windows Media Center. Enjoy! Show times 01:00 Coming up this week 01:40 Signal splitting problems 03:15 Running a script from Media Center 04:22 Try mControl 04:36 HD TV 720 or 1080? 05:48 Update to the Xbox 360 07:09 My Blockbuster addin 07:41 My […]
Read moreI am looking forward to being able to watch concerts on the next gen formats, not only for the sound quality, but for immersion HD concerts should bring you. You can expect Chris Botti on May 29th with Bruce Springsteen following a week later. High-Def Digest No specs are yet available for either title, though both shows were captured with HD […]
Read moreWe have been lacking HT news as of late, so I had to even things up a little bit. Audioholics had the chance to look at Pioneer's Pure Malt Speakers. According to the review, each speaker is made from a whiskey barrel to achieve its unique look. Audioholics At $598 for a pair, these speakers are not cheap for their […]
Read moreI felt like titling this the "Yet-Another-Extender-Review" since the market is kind of flooded with these types of devices. MediaGate adds a little twist to it, with a hard drive version as well, allowing it to act as a NAS…which is cool & all, but hard drives tend to make noise which is the Last thing I'd want by my […]
Read moreI guess I missed this BeyondTV announcement that they are now supporting the HDHomeRun! Along with unencrypted QAM support, a slew of bug fixes are also present in 4.6.1. BeyondTV Blog I’ll elaborate in another blog posting, but in short, it means you can watch and record some of the channels on your cable connection in their pure digital form […]
Read morePCPerspective has the very sexy yet expensive HD160XT up for review today. The 7" touchscreen is the reason behind the price increase. Beyond the initial sexiness of the 7" LCD, manufactures have struggled to find a use for this. However, Zalman appears to have solved this issue by bundling software that makes use of the larger then normal real estate. […]
Read moreA LOT of people have questions about how to connect their HTPC's to their home theaters, so it's nice to see an article like this with explanations as well as instruction. Of course, if you need further help, we've got some pretty smart guys in the forums that can offer further assistance. CE Pro Today's better PC systems can decode […]
Read moreLooks like Western Digital is also releasing new hard drives this month. They announced a line of drives that target the Audio/Video DVR market. The focus is on reliability, power consumption and noise. I'm curious if we'll see these appear on the OEM market. I wonder if the noise claims apply to seek noise or just idle noise.
Read moreIt looks like the newest Xbox360 update is going to bring some CODEC loving to the Media Center masses. You can expect MPEG-4, H.264, WMV and PlayForSure Audio streaming. As per the post below, it looks like this is for the Dashboard only. I guess I need to get a 360 to test this stuff out ;). Engadget Link: Xbox.com […]
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