CableCARD (still) goes unloved, except in set-top boxes

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 […]

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USB Flash Drive Comparison – 21 Tested and Compared

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 […]

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Envive 1Tb TheaterStation Media Server Giveaway

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 […]

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Toshiba Regza 32RV530U 32″ LCD HDTV

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 […]

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HD Video Playback With A $20 CPU & $30 GPU On Linux

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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Switching to Comskip for HD-PVR (h.264)

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 […]

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Blu-ray coming to redbox

Looks like Blu-ray may be comming to RedBox soon(ish).  A friend of mine told me that Redbox was working on a Blu-ray option while keeping rentals at $1.  Today I found this up on their website, but no BD kiosk locations listed (yet).   Now you can rent Blu-ray Discs from redbox kiosks at select Walmart locations. That’s right, friend, […]

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