Archive for November, 2008
Deal: Philips Universal Remote Under $8
It’s black Friday so I should point you to a good deal today. Buy.com has the Philips universal remote for $7.99. It’s usually $99 so it’s significantly reduced. It gets good reviews and is up 1,300% from yesterday. For $7.99 what do you have to lose. Philips SRU4105/27 Universal Remote Control – TV, VCR, DVD [...]
Video: AMD’s Maui HTPC Platform
AMD’s Maui platform was demoed on video by Hot Hardware. The Maui platform is for HTPC computers. It has features that offload tasks from the CPU to the motherboard. The video does a very good job of covering the new features and what it means to you. I like that they had a built-in 100 [...]
10 Really Cool Windows 7 Media Center Features
There has been a lot of praise about Windows 7 lately. Windows 7 Media Center is no exception to the praise. There are some really nice features that are being added, although some are long overdue. My favorite new feature being talked about right now is the ability to add virtual channels to the guide. [...]
Boxee For Windows Coming Soon
Boxee has a Windows version coming December 4th. It’s only going to be in pre-alpha but it’s a start. I was surprised how well Boxee works on Mac as an Alpha, so I’m sure the Windows version will be better than other alpha software releases. I hope I’m one of the 200 people that they [...]
TVTonic is Shutting Down
WaveExpress is shutting down TVTonic. You can still use the program to stream video from RSS but they are shutting down their content servers. They say it’s because of tough financial times. The announcement did make it seem that it might come back. In these tough financial times we are faced with the need to [...]
HandBrake Updated to Handle Video Files
HandBrake has been updated to 0.9.3. This update offers some nice improvements but they best feature is you can select any video file as the source. I tested this out with a AVI file and converted it to MP4 file. It did this at 110 fps and the end result looked just as good as [...]
