Embedded Automation Announces mHome Power Management Module (1)
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New Module Makes Power Monitoring and Control Within Reach of all Homeowners Surrey, BC – August 20, 2008 Today, Embedded Automation announced its mHome Power Management Module. The mHome Power Management Module, which provides real-time energy usage information and control functionality, is available as an add-in to Embedded Automation's mHome products, including the award-winning mControl Digital Home Software and soon to be released mPanel Digital Home Portal. Initially supporting the TED (The Energy Detective) energy ...
Skip Commercials with ShowAnalyzer - Soon with H.264 Support! (1)
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If you use a Home Theater PC (HTPC), you likely are "in" to skipping those commercials. Two of the best commercial skipping applications are comskip (which I've used for a while now) and ShowAnalyzer. I'm planning to give ShowAnalyzer a try this month just to compare the two and also because ShowAnalyzer has H.264 support in its most recent private beta. That means my SageTV HTPC will soon be able to detect commercials for the ...
Deal of the Day - SiliconDust HDHomeRun Dual Qam Tuner $130 (1)
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If you've been pondering the best way to get unencrypted QAM into your Home Theater PC, I highly recommend the SiliconDust HDHomeRun tuner. It connects via the ethernet so it won't take up any space inside your computer or USB ports, can tune unencrypted QAM (digital/SD & HD) channels as well as OTA HD channels and it's a dual tuner to boot. It normally sells for $170, and NewEgg had a one-day deal for $140 ...
$150 Linksys Extenders at Circuit City (1)
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Circuit City has the Linksys DMA2100 Extenders on sale for only $150 (Via Missing Remote). If you are in the market for a Media Center Extender then I would check your local store to see if they have any in-stock. According to Circuit City’s website they are sold out online, so your local store might be the only place to get a deal (not sure about raincheck purcahses). All three of my local stores around ...
MyMovies ScreenCast (1)
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A Movie Catalog feature has always been an important part of my HTPC from the time I started and used Meedio through Beyond Media all the way to SageTV now. I think MyMovies for Microsoft Media Center is one of the better Movie applications for HTPC's and Adam Thursby of the Entertainment 2.0 blog has done a great walkthrough of MyMovies for Media Center. I can do many of these things in SageTV, but I'm ...
Elisa faz tudo (1)
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Elisa não é a empregada lá de casa, mas sim, um completo sistema de media center gratuito para Linux e Windows. O conceito de que software livre não quer dizer software ruim é bem mais assimilado pelos usuários Linux, por isso o Elisa é mais amplamente conhecido pelo pessoal do mundo livre. Com Elisa é possível [...]
Feature: Use Your Wii as a Media Center (9)
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These days, every gaming system in your living room better be able to do more than just play video games if it's going to earn its place next to your TV. The Xbox 360 makes for an excellent Media Center extender, and the original Xbox is the king of homebrew video-game-cum-media-boxes, but when it comes to expanding your home theater beyond gaming, the Wii has always been a bit light on functionality. The best thing ...
Cannon PC To Ship Windows Media Center TV Pack (2)
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Houston, Texas - August 15, 2008 – Media Center PC innovator and Microsoft OEM Partner, Cannon PC, announced that it will begin shipping the Microsoft Windows Media Center TV Pack with its line for Media Center PCs. Cannon PC will begin shipping systems with the new TV Pack beginning in early September. The Microsoft Windows Media Center TV Pack adds native support for up to 4 TV tuners (including digital cable tuners), ClearQAM (Unencrypted Digital ...
Snapstream's Rakesh Agrawal Interviewed by Mike McGuff (2)
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For those of you who are familiar with Snapstream and BeyondTV, you'll want to check out this video from MikeMcGuff's BarCamp Houston 3 TV. The interview is of Rakesh Agrawal, the CEO of Snapstream - maker of BeyondTV and Snapstream Enterprise. The focus of most of the conversation is on Snapstream Enterprise. According to Agrawal in the interview, "for the last two years as a company, we've (Snapstream) shifted our focus to solving television search ...
Weekend Project: Soup Up Your Xbox Media Center (2)
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So you've turned your classic Xbox into a full-blown media center (or you're thinking about it) and now you want to add the finishing touches—like games, album art and streaming video—to your setup. The Xbox Media Center software has a bunch of configurable options, scripts and hooks into online services that can complete your XBMC experience. After the jump, find out how to upgrade to the latest version of XBMC, fill in the details like ...
Geek To Live: Transform Your Classic Xbox into a Killer Media Center (3)
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Don't ditch your classic Xbox just because you can't play Halo 3 on it: nowadays it's easier than ever to transform that old neglected console into a Unix-based media command center. While early Xbox hackers had to pry open the black box to solder on a modchip, today a software exploit lets you replace Microsoft's crippled dashboard and run the incredible, open source Xbox Media Center (XBMC) software. You don't have to be a hardcore ...
Xbox Media Center Cross Platform Alpha (1)
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I bought my shiny green limited edition Xbox when it came out, put a modchip inside and replaced the hard drive with a 120 Gigabyte drive. The first application that I put onto it was XBMC, the Xbox Media Center, which functions as my main entertainment hub ever since. I usually drop movies on it once every while and replace old ones because the hard drive has limited space but it gives me the pleasure ...
XBMC 'Atlantis' landing in around two months (1)
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Filed under: Misc, Media PCs, AppleNo sooner did we ask the audience which PVR application was best than the XBMC team reveals the next major installment of XBMC Media Center. A post over at the official website informs us that Team-XBMC "has hit a feature freeze in anticipation of an upcoming stable release of XBMC, codenamed Atlantis." The software is set to be released for Windows, Linux, Mac and Xbox simultaneously in around two months, ...
Switched On: Rethinking the living room PC (6)
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Filed under: Laptops, Media PCsEach week Ross Rubin contributes Switched On, a column about technology, multimedia, and digital entertainment. Even as Microsoft continues to support broadcasting standards around the world to bolster Media Center's support for broadcast television, the future of noisy, black 17-inch-wide boxes sharing a cramped cabinet with your stereo receiver remains in jeopardy. Indeed, the future of the living room PC may be sitting in your lap.When Microsoft announced the Media Center ...
XBMC Goes Cross Platform with Atlantis [Xbmc] (15)
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The popular Xbox Media Center (XBMC) is working toward a cross-platform release, codenamed Atlantis, with alpha downloads available for Windows, Mac, and Linux. The Windows Alpha crashed in my test, so if you have similar problems, previous versions of XBMC already run like a top on your Mac, your classic Xbox, and even your thumb drive.
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Worth checking out if you're looking for an easy-to-use supports-everything media solution.
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poor man's media center interface
Fiji: The good, the bad and the ugly (1)
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Eigentlich möchte ich ja eher über die guten Dinge rund um Vista schreiben. Nicht alles ist aber nun mal rosarot... was ist nun mit Fiji, hier drei Begriffserklärungen: Fidschi (engl.: Fiji Islands) [ˈfidʒi] ist ein Inselstaat im Südpazifik nördlich von Neuseeland und östlich von Australien. Quelle: Wikipedia. Fiji [ˈfidʒi] ist der Codename für das Windows Media Center TV Pack, das schon lange erwartete nächste Release des beliebten Media Centers. Fiji [ˈfidʒi] ist Umschreibung für: "wie ...
Roundup: Watching the Olympics Online (and in HD!) (3)
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Ahh yes, Olympics frenzy is upon us. The time when countries cheer on their athletes in games of sport and goodwill. It's also a time when companies cheer on their contributions to the Olympic efforts and services available to keep tabs on the event which is lining up to be the largest streamed event in history. Since we're Addicted to Digital Media around here, it wouldn't be the Olympics without a roundup of the ways ...
Microsoft confirms that Fiji is a joke (1)
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Mary Jo Foley finally convinced Microsoft to come clean on Fiji, the thoroughly uninteresting Media Center update. Here’s what they told her (emphasis mine): On July 16th, 2008, Microsoft released an update to the version of Windows Media Center included with Windows Vista Home Premium and Windows Vista Ultimate to our OEM partners - this update is referred to as the “Windows Media Center TV Pack”. In order to ensure that users get the best ...
