Tag: Media Center Programs

Here is a quick review of Vista MCE. Being a blog review, it is a bit on the quick side. It does, however, give a few more details to see if it is worth switching or not. I have been running it for a few weeks now. Although in a limited capacity and found it doesn't offer a whole lot […]

Not really a review, but I know Jennfur, our local CableCard afficiendo, would be interested to know that Dell plans on releasing an OCUR based system within the next few months. They even throw in a few pics to get you salivating! From the article: Dell will be selling this configuration in the next few months, with the hope that […]

It pays to be a big website, and Cnet's case it netted them a 120Hz 1080p LCD from Sharp. On the positive side, the black levels were extremely good but it did suffer from banding problems. It some scenes the reviewer could see alternating bands of lighter and darker areas on the screen. How did the 120Hz turn out? According […]

Sage has released another release candidate build today. Release Notes: SageTV V6.1.4 Release Notes 3/6/2007 RELEASE CANDIDATE 4 Core Updates 1. Fixed bug where FLAC files with pictures in them could crash the metadata parser in an infinite loop 2. Added support for album art extraction from FLAC files 3. Updated cable frq data for "Finland-Helsinki" 4. Fixed bug where […]

I know I said I wouldn't be posting news about WHS, but I feel like I've got to give Ian the credit for taking the time to do so. I still feel there's a lot of potential for it, and HTPC's aside, if you've got several systems at home, it's not a bad way to keep a safe backup. I […]

Steven Hanna at XLobby has announced that Calrad Electronics will be partnering with XLobby. They have hired Steven to resume development of the product and will be releasing a commercial version of XLobby in the future. Much speculation is going on over at the XLobby forums about what will happen over the coming months. Beta versions w/ expiration dates will […]

The folks at Snapstream have been working behind the scenes on a new website called Couchville.com . In addition to having their "Buzz" which shows the top recorded shows by BeyondTV users, it also works as a TV Guide listings. Pretty quick as well. I'm sure in time they'll interface it more with Beyond, so maybe this is finally the […]

If you read my recent blog about ReplayTV , you'll know I'm not the biggest fan of Replay's PC edition of their PVR software. And this is apparantly a note that they haven't really had that many fans, slashing their prices in half. Kudos to them for realizing that $100 was beyond obscene, but when will they learn people hate […]

This is strictly for John's enjoyment & satisfaction. Freevo, another open-source Myth-TV-like program has released its latest 1.7 version. Freevo 1.7.0 release contains quite a few major new features. Including a great web interface to the media on your freevo machine, a web remote, an encodeserver to compress recordings in the background, an rss feedserver so you can download your […]