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While we’re a bit late for June, you get a major geek out in return! This month, Jere and I are joined by Andy Van Til of DVRMS-Toolbox fame as well as Josh Shenkle, the Minnesota Maven to discuss all things hardware. From video card chipsets, to processors and storage, we’ve got you...
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Back for the first week of March and while news is slow, we’ve decided to take a look at some of the great plugins that are available both within the 10 foot interface, and that simply compliment Media Center. Whether we’re talking about metadata retrieval, content management or adding new...
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We’re finally back after a one week hiatus and hopefully it’ll be the last one we take for awhile. We hope no one missed us too much. This week we start off by running through the comments, questions and emails from the last show. Thanks again for all of your feedback! Once we get...
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Back again folks! Thanks for joining us on this week of not such good news for Media Center enthusiasts. But, like any good enthusiasts, we take our lumps and keep moving! There is some good news this week amid all the turmoil however. The best (for me) being that it’s now possible to...
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Those of use who use Media Center in our homes as more than just a DVR have this love/hate thing going on. On the one hand, we love Media Center. The interface, the functionality, the DVR capabilities, all of it. We also hate the fact that Microsoft has, so far, decided that extenders should...
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For being the slow time of year, there sure is some great Media Center related news out there. It’s only about one month until CEDIA kicks off and hopefully we’ll have even more to talk about then. For now though, we get a chance to talk about some 3rd party applications as well as a new...
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I hate codecs. I hate that I have to play games to get certain files to do certain things on my HTPC. It drives me nuts that every time you install a codec pack it rarely uninstalls cleanly and you have a machine that is bug ridden just because you wanted to get a certain file type...
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The story broke a little while back that Divx was releasing a tech preview to provide support for MKVs within Windows 7. The great part about this news was that not only would it provide support on your PC itself but because the preview introduced support for Media Foundation, this opened up...
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