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[2 Sep 2010 | Comments | 49 views]
HD Racer – September 3-5

It’s a holiday weekend in the United States, and with it comes a truck-load of motorsports action. Friday gets kicked off with IndyCar qualifying on Versus, followed by SPEED’s coverage of the NASCAR Truck series qualifying and race at Kentucky.
Saturday is, once again, packed. Throughout the middle part of the day keep it on SPEED for NASCAR Sprint Cup practice and qualifying from Atlanta. In the evening you can catch the first D1GP Drifting event from Tokyo on SPEED. ESPN2 has the NASCAR Nationwide race that night, and Versus has …

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[25 Aug 2010 | Comments | 140 views]
HD Racer – August 27-29

While most of August may have been a little slow, this final weekend is jam-packed! It all gets started with the pinnacle of motorsports: Formula 1. The rest of Friday is filled with the NASCAR Camping World Truck Series as they share Chicagoland Speedway with the IndyCar Series.
Make sure you’re up by 8:00 a.m. on Saturday as Formula 1 qualifies for the Belgian Grand Prix at famed Spa-Francorchamps. Rest up the rest of the morning though, because the afternoon is stuffed with Grand-Am Rolex, SCCA World Challenge, IndyCar and MotoGP!
If you …

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[24 Aug 2010 | Comments | 315 views]
Win a Blu-ray Prize Pack from The Movie Podcast!

That is right The Movie Podcast is giving away a Blu-ray price pack hand picked by James and Adam! To find out how to enter just listen to the latest episode of The Movie Podcast where we review Survival of the Dead, The Back-up Plan, and Time Bandits. Also check out our new site http://www.moviepodcast.net to keep up to date on all the latest TMP news. We want to give people Blu-rays and it is easy to win!!!! The contest will run for the next 2 weeks so you …

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[18 Aug 2010 | Comments | 215 views]
HD Racer – August 20-22

Once again NASCAR leads the way this weekend. Fortunately if that’s not your favorite form of motorsports you have a couple of other options this weekend. NASCAR’s Nationwide and Sprint Cup Series practice and qualify Friday throughout the day. The evening is capped off with the Nationwide Series Food City 250 at Bristol.
Saturday evening is your first chance at non-NASCAR action as the IndyCar series will be qualifying at Sonoma. NASCAR Sprint Cup caps off the night with the Irwin Tools Night Race from Bristol.
On Sunday its all about road …

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[12 Aug 2010 | Comments | 218 views]
HD Racer – August 13-15

If you love NASCAR you’re in luck this weekend! If not….well….maybe next weekend! Friday and Saturday are completely dominated by NASCAR coverage. The Sprint Cup and Nationwide Series are both at Michigan International Speedway, and the trucks are at Darlington.
On Sunday morning you can wake up to MotoGP as they run the Czech Grand Prix. At 12:30 p.m. is your only other opportunity for non-NASCAR coverage as CBS has a documentary of sorts covering the American Le Mans Series race from Mid-Ohio which happened last week. For the rest of …

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[5 Aug 2010 | Comments | 138 views]
HD Racer – August 6 – 8

For the first time since we’ve started bring you the HD Racer posts there is absolutely nothing to watch on Friday! Not to feat though, as there is still plenty of great racing to watch this weekend. Surprisingly, there is almost no oval racing going on!
Saturday morning is where all the action begins. NASCAR Sprint Cup has qualifying from Watkins Glen on ESPN. Keep it there, because at 2:00 you’ll be able to catch the Nationwide Series Zippo 200 from The Glen. At 6:00pm you’ll have to choose between IndyCar …

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[29 Jul 2010 | Comments | 199 views]
HD Racer – July 30 – Aug 1

Yet again we find another very busy weekend in the motorsports world! And for the first time since the inception of HD Racer, there is even rally racing on the schedule!
Formula 1 is in action for the second straight week as they make their way to Hungary for the Hungarian Grand Prix. The weekend gets started with practice for the event Friday morning. Later in the day you can catch NASCAR Sprint Cup qualifying and the Final Practice for the Truck Series from Pocono.
Saturday is packed once again. As is …

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[22 Jul 2010 | Comments | 375 views]
HD Racer – July 23-25

In this fourth weekend in July we find yet another incredibly packed schedule of motorsports goodness.
Formula 1 is in action this week, so they get things started Friday morning at 8am with practice for the German Grand Prix from Hockenheim. In the afternoon you can catch NASCAR Trucks qualifying, and then their race that night from O’Reilly Raceway Park.
Saturday starts with Formula 1 qualifying, then at 2:00pm you can catch over 50 sports cars try to make their way around the very crowded 1.5 mile track at Lime Rock. That …

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[19 Jul 2010 | Comments | 8,072 views]
Ceton InfiniTV 4 Review

Its not often that a product comes along that really shakes up a niche market like ours. With few exceptions we are accustomed to every product acting like all the others. Price or brand recognition ends up being the determining factor in hardware choices.
What happens however when a product comes along and challenges our notions of the HTPC landscape?
Way back in January of 2009 we learned about an exciting product that really deserves the much-overused title “game changer.” Ceton’s InfiniTV 4, a pci-express card that can record up to four …

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[18 Jul 2010 | Comments | 284 views]
Encryption and Copy-Protection

There seems to be a lot of confusion around the concepts of encryption and copy-protection when it comes to getting television from your content provider, so the DMZ is here to clear it up for you.
Before we get into defining what encryption and copy-protection are we must point out one thing that is perhaps misunderstood the most: copy-protection and encryption are not the same thing! With that cleared up, let’s dig a little deeper.
Encryption
Encryption is actually a pretty simple concept to understand.  When a cable company provides a video stream …