First we want to apologize to those who join us live every week. When we’re going to be having multiple people on with us, it helps to cut out the live stuff to conserve bandwidth. Unfortunately it didn’t help much this week due to software errors. But while the audio quality isn’t going to be what you’re used to, the content is superb.
Josh and I are joined this week by Jose Ortiz of the TDL Mobile Show and AJ Peck, writer and sometimes co-host for The Home Server …
RealDVD should have been lauded by the movie and television studios as a great step forward. Software that allowed consumers to copy their legally purchased DVDs while not only maintaining copy protection but adding an extra layer to be sure that the files created couldn’t be shared. If just one executive in Hollywood had even an ounce of foresight, they would have tried to form a formal partnership with RealNetworks. Instead, the studios and the MPAA have ensured that millions of content buyers will continue to do things illegally …
Let’s all take a breath after the excitement of the Olympics, especially the hockey. Don’t think you get a break, however, because this week marks the official start of March Madness. Conference tournaments are starting, league title races decided and jockeying for position in the NCAA tourney is officially underway. Ahh, Spring is in the air.
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Take your pick of the college hoops games, there’s several the feature two ranked teams. However, Wednesday’s Duke-Maryland tilt is with the ACC title on the line (9 p.m. ESPN).
Here’s the rest of the week, …
We’re back again folks and Josh made sure that it would be a rousing episode. We of course take time to go through all the the listener email this week and we thank all of you.
Josh’s Hockey Minute returns this week and we find out that if you stopped watching hockey four years ago because of the strike, you should probably start again!
Both VMC with TV Pack and Windows 7 Media Center received updates this week and we’ve got you covered on what’s included. Not really a whole lot …
Some fairly big news this week, as word broke shortly before recording the show that Walmart had bought online movie service Vudu in what’s being reported as a $100 million deal. This could either be a good thing for Vudu, giving the young company more capital behind it to expand and give Netflix a run for its money, or it could go the way of the Walmart MP3 store and leave thousands of customers out in the cold in the future.
On the TiVo news front, the company that became a …
First off, if you haven’t seen any of the men’s hockey from the Olympics, you’re missing out. It’s been phenomenal. Go watch the final 10 minutes or so of the U.S.A.-Canada game for proof. With that out of the way, it’s pretty much basketball or Olympics this week. Conference schedules are quickly wrapping up and serious jockeying for NCAA seeds is in full effect in college hoops.
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Olympics take center stage again.Women’s figure skating, one of the premier events, concludes Thursday at 8 p.m. on NBC and the men’s hockey gold …
Once again we return as ready as ever to answer your questions and mull the intricacies of Media Center. We had a lot of fun on this week’s show and got some good information out to you, our listeners.
First up this week is Boxee and Windows Media Center Integration 1.0. A new tool, this app will place a tile in Media Center linked to Boxee and through magic in the background will close Media Center and open Boxee when selected. It does the process in reverse once you’re ready …
After the flu canceled last week’s show, Seen in HD is back for episode 22. We start things off with a quick discussion on Windows Phone 7 and its potential as a HD video player since it has a lot of similarities to the Zune HD. More info needs to come out on the video playbacks features, but Phil was particularly intrigued.
After that we shift to talk of media streamers/extenders and their worth after the announcement of Toshiba’s Media Center TV (no it has nothing to do with Windows Media …
One thing to note right off the top: With the sheer amount of Olympics coverage, we’re not going to cover every event that will be on TV during the two-week run, head to NBC Olympics.com for that. However, we’ll try to highlight the big ones for the day. Relating to Olympic coverage, the downhill skiing (and Lindsey Vonn, pictured above) schedule is all out of whack due to weather issues. All Olympic Coverage on the NBC networks is in 1080i. I’d check NBC’s site for the most up-to-date plans for …
You read that right. Slamingest is now a word. So much so that I’ve added it to the dictionary so that it doesn’t get that red squiggly line under it. I might have coined it, but after listening to our show, you’ll know that it’s James Montemagno who’s made it famous. James is the owner of RevoHTPC.com and he’s joined us this week to share his experiences with the Acer AspireRevo PC he uses as his Media Center. I’ve been curious about the Revo for a long time and …
Some times you just want to keep things simple or gasp keep it “Apple” like. That is the case with this nice little gem of a find. A user over at Life Hacker found out that with a simple registry edit you can use alternative IR remote controls within Media Center and even Windows Media Player.
A while back I documented on how you can have two media center PC’s in the same room by editing the IR registry settings on one of the Media Center PC’s so that you could …
