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When Windows Home Server 2011 was announced I was extremely excited. I participated in the beta, and I now have a dedicated 8TB Raid 10 running in my closet. Not only will WHS2011 store all of your files in the house, backup your computers, and allow you to stream your content through your browser...
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ZOTAC continues to deliver hot new products to us home theater PC enthusiasts. Yesterday we showed you their new Intel D2700 based Mini-ITX motherboard, and today we have a new PC to check out. This is the ZBOX Giga ID70 Plus. This isn’t just a beautiful new case, it’s a full home...
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When it comes to building tiny home theater PCs it’s hard to beat the Mini-ITX form factor of motherboards. Zotac has been one of the go-to manufacturers for Mini-ITX boards regardless of whether you’re looking for an Intel Atom, Intel Core, or AMD ION solution. Their newest offering,...
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Our favorite Blu-ray playback software, TotalMedia Theatre 5, is on sale at TigerDirect for just $59.99.
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We’re now living in a golden age for home theater PCs (HTPC). For most people, the most important feature in an HTPC is live TV and DVR functionality. If the HTPC doesn’t handle live and recorded television, then many of the family members will never use it. That is why CableCARD tuners...
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TiVo finally spilled the beans on their forthcoming Premiere Elite DVR this week. As far as consumer DVRs go it will pretty much be the king of the field with its four tuners and two terabytes of storage capacity. But with all that comes a pretty hefty price tag. Once you factor in lifetime service...
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After a couple of weeks of long episodes Entertainment 2.0 episode 143 was actually recorded in a more reasonable amount of time! Josh Pollard was joined by Richard Gunther and Craig Scholle. After reading a couple of great emails the trio jumped into the biggest news of the week, perhaps some of...
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For Episode 142 of the Entertainment 2.0 podcast Josh Pollard had the pleasure of being joined by Richard Gunther and James Montemagno. CableCARD news abounds, and because of that both Josh and Richard had updates to provide. Josh updated everyone on using the Hauppauge WinTV-DCR-2650 with an...
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The fall television season is, finally, almost upon us! That means you only have a couple of weeks to make sure that your home theater PC (HTPC) is ready for what will most likely be a lot more recording TV duty! At the top of the fall television HTPC readiness checklist is hard drive storage! One...
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For Episode 141 of the Entertainment 2.0 podcast Josh Pollard was once again joined by Richard Gunther. The news this week continued to center around CableCARD tuners for Windows Media Center, but fortunately Josh finally got his hands on one! The guys kicked off the show by discussing Josh’s...
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Today Ceton announced pricing and availability of their forthcoming InfiniTV 4 USB. The new device is essentially the same quad-tuner CableCARD device we’ve all known and loved over the last year except that it connects to your PC via USB rather than being an internal PCIe card. The USB version...
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Time for a new podcast here at The DMZ. Bringing together a love of music along with digital media news, DMZ Radio, hosted by Adam Thursby is a weekly look at the digital headlines mixed with the music that makes up the soundtrack of our lives. Each week, Adam will be covering the headlines from...
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