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If you’ve become accustomed to Media Center’s 30 second-skip and instant replay features for TV, you can add that feature to DVD playback, too. By default, the skip buttons jump between chapters when you watch a DVD. But you can change that by configuring the behavior of your remote...
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At the Digital Media Zone we love Windows Media Center! One of the reasons we love it so much is that it just looks gorgeous on a big HDTV. Even if you never customize it at all it looks great, but there are easy ways to make it look even better. One such way is to add a bit of color to the TV...
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Cheap HTPC is a Champ Two weeks ago I decided to create a HTPC on the cheap. The goal was simple build a powerful HTPC for under $500. I put together full list of parts that you can read about in HTPC on the Cheap Part 1. The main points are 2 TV tuners, large hard drive, smoking fast AMD Athlon...
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A few Entertainment 2.0s ago we discussed building your own low cost HTPC. I have always been a big fan of Intel with my Revo HTPC, however for most people the Atom/ION combination is just not powerful enough for them. The Intel i3 is a great HTPC processor paired with Intel HD Graphics, however,...
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We’re back for number 105 this week and it was a fun one. No more arguments but the WHS drive extender issue certainly won’t die, and for good reason. Josh and I are joined once again but guest James Montemagno. While the shows are a bit longer, having another perspective on things is...
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One of the biggest advantages to using a computer as the basis of your of your living room DVR is the ability to automate commercial skipping. Everyone remembers when they got their first DVR, and how great it was to be able to fast-forward through commercials. Well combining Windows Media Center,...
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In part one, we covered how to lock down native Media Center applications so that you you didn’t have to worry about whether or not your family is being sneaking and trying to watch things they shouldn’t. For many of us however, this is only half the story. With several third party Media...
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Seriously, I won’t judge you if you have content you don’t want me to watch. While our minds immediately wander to some lonely guy trying to hide his extensive adult collection, our focus today is parental control. My sons have reached an age where they’re old enough to use our Harmony...
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It is known that MKV files sometimes have issues playing inside of WMC and have even more issues on lower powered machines. They don’t show up inside of Windows Media Center by default, you have to install codec packs or other utilities to get them to work at risk of messing up your HTPC....
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We used to have the full deal. Digital Cable and all the trimmings. HBO, Showtime, Cinemax, you name it. Slowly, over the years we’ve cut back. This was mainly because we realized that we simply didn’t use the services we were paying for. We’re a movie family for sure, but we had...
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With the latest Media Center update, many power users learned that their customizations aren’t supported and were removed. While MS certainly has no requirement to support community hacks, it’s too bad this had to happen. What should be seen as the addition of some decent content has been...
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Yes, you can go searching around the web and learn how to build your very own PC. It’s not a difficult process and there are lots of how-to’s out there. That said, since we deal quite a bit with HTPCs here at The DMZ, I thought it would be good to share with our readers how you too can...
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