Tag: Community News

Boxee, of which I finally got installed but am greeted with a black screen, just added Netflix watch now for Linux and Mac versions.  AppleTV can’t yet do netflix but getting it working is their top priority right now.  Boxee keeps getting better.  It might be time to devote some real time to getting Boxee working on my AppleTV.    […]

New Beta for Sage is out!   Among the interesting features, Sage now supports 720p youtube videos, multithreaded transcoding, and a slew of other bug fixes. I’ll be sure to test drive it tonight!    Core Updates 1. Various improvements to SageTVTranscoder and SageTVPlayer (for HDPVR support and other bugs encountered in 6.5.1/2) 2. Movies that have the ‘Premiere’ attribute […]

  Purchase myTV anytime between December 1st – 25th and you’ll automatically be entered into a boxing day draw for a brand new Seagate Barracuda 7200.11 1500GB harddrive. We will also randomly pick out one new customer per day who will receive a full refund on their payment – as in, you’ll get a completely free license to myTV to […]

Not a bad article which covers several aspects of planning a HTPC install.   It has been over three and a half years since the HTPC has gone mainstream. Today, the HTPC front-end is fairly well established, with a slick interface and a compact, living-room-friendly form factor, and it’s reliable enough that you rarely notice it’s there. Toss in working HDMI for […]

Chris Morley has a public service announcement regarding CableCards and the MSI DIVA platform. In short, it won’t work with CableCards unless you are an OEM.   he MSI motherboard has the table built in for the AMD/MS OEM partners to put in their CableLabs information to enable playback of digital cable content including encrypted QAM content.  However, this table […]

TI decided to do some spoof videos to show what life would be like without engineers in the world and why you should thank them when you see them.  I think the videos are worth looking at for a second.   Thank an Engineer For making our lives safer, more productive and fun  [Texas Instruments]  

This isn’t really HTPC related but most of you are probably familiar with Guitar Hero.  I wanted to post this because it was just really cool.  Watch the video and be amazed.   Combine the popular video game Guitar Hero with high-speed industrial hardware and a real-time OS and what do you get? An entertaining demonstration of machine vision capabilities […]

You’ve heard news recently about 3DTV development.  Now’s your chance to influence the industry.  Take this survey and have an input.  As incentive, they’re giving out a bunch of prizes as well.    As exciting as this is, there has been very little input from experienced S-3D and traditional 2D gamers about this technology, and MTBS believes it is the […]

Overclockers club has a prebuilt HTPC from Asus for review if you don’t want to build your own.  While they still run it through your standard system benchmarks, which aren’t really applicable for HTPCs, they atleast test out video playback.  Take a gander.   Asus, one of the world’s largest consumer computer hardware manufacturer, which also makes their own, custom designs, […]

Come and get your fresh hot Media Portal release. Get it while its hot.. Come and get it. This release was 100% bug fixes. Its a snoarer of a release but should stabilize things before the final release hits before Christmas.   What can the community do? We need your help to find and fix still existing issues in MediaPortal […]