Archive for February, 2007
Central Illinois: Blizzard 07
I haven’t posted in a few days mostly because he were having a blizzard. 14″ of snow with 35 to 45mph winds. And of course we went outside. I haven’t seen that much snow at one time that I can remember. I spent yesterday morning helping people out that had their cars stuck, then played [...]
HDTV for cheap
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/17080800/site/newsweek/ When you read the title you probably didn’t think of the old rabbit ears hooked up to your TV. But that’s what the article is about. If your within 30 miles of your local broadcast towers and don’t want to spend a lot for HDTV then look at rabbit ears for get your channels. [...]
Review: Velocity Micro CineMagix Grand Theater
http://reviews.cnet.com/ This computer will put the “WOW” into Windows Vista. It comes at a high price but it is a fully configured Media Center. It has all the high end components to hook it up to your HDTV. CNet gave it a good ranking. It is cable card ready and can be customized to fit [...]
Pinnacle Vista Support
http://www.pinnaclesys.com/Vista/vista_tv.asp Some of you might have a Pinnacle card. Or some might be thinking about buying a Pinnacle card. The link above has info on your Pinnacle card and if it will work with your upcoming vista upgrade. It looks like they are working hard to make sure all their stuff is Vista compatible.
Mobile media center
http://www.24access.com/corporate/mobilemediacenter.html 24access has developed a place shifter to stream and download computer content to your smartphone. It comes in two different versions to meet your needs the express and pro. The nice thing about the pro version is you can stream live TV to your smartphone. If your the type that wants all of your [...]
Access SageTV from Mac
http://www.macworld.com/news/2007/02/12/sagetv/index.php There is a new program called Placeshifter that allows Mac users to access their SageTV content. SageTV is a Windows and Linux media center software. It is going to be available on Mac soon. If you want to give it a try they have a 15-day trial. http://www.sagetv.com/
