AV&Home Theatre
CES 08: Part 4 - The future of LCDs and Plasmas
The main reason I went to CES was to see what new innovations and wonderful technologies would be gracing my home over the next year. Sadly, much of CES appeared to be a ‘lot of the same’, but there were some saving graces. Let’s take a look at some of the more promising [...]
16Jan2008 | Kline | 7 comments | Continued
CES 2008: Part 2 Cheap Knockoffs Galore
This was actually one of the more enjoyable things to see at CES. Everything from fake roombas to fake nanos. Let’s take a look at some of them.
12Jan2008 | Kline | 5 comments | Continued
My Movies 2 - Watch DVDs In Windows Media Center
Vista Media Center doesn’t allow you to watch DVDs on your hard drive. There is a way to hack the registry so that a DVD Library is added to Vista Media Center, but only a list of movies is displayed with no thumbnails or data like genres, movie ratings, actor bios etc.
I discovered My [...]
The Shot That Ended The Format War
I wrote a three part series on the Format War when I first started writing for Connected Internet, describing what the two formats were about, and what I thought were hits and misses by both sides. My ending verdict was for HD DVD, and I still feel that it has more to offer than the [...]
5Jan2008 | Michael Lankton | 11 comments | Continued
HP Announces Low Cost Media Vault Servers
I’ve been dying to talk about the HP Media Vault Server, ever since HP showed it to me in October in a workshop. This low-cost NAS server is a linux based alternative to more expensive Windows Home Server boxes. In fact, that meeting with HP was the inspiration behind me deciding to build [...]
4Jan2008 | Everton | 4 comments | Continued
