All Posts Tagged With: "HDTV"
Finally Finished My Home Move
After one of the longest home purchases ever thanks to the difficulty in getting mortgages at the moment, I finally moved into my new home last Monday. Packing for the move and unpacking after the move effectively took me out of action every evening for the last two weeks as I couldn’t get the time [...]
23Jun2008 | Everton | 9 comments | Continued
Building A Media Center PC
It’s been a while since I’ve written a post and I haven’t even had the time to keep up with my feeds. I did however find the time over the weekend to build a new Media Center PC. I managed to put the itself PC together fairly quickly, without too many cuts on [...]
9Apr2008 | Everton | 7 comments | Continued
XBMC Coming On OS X And Linux. Plus, I Need Advice With New PC Spec
I’m a big fan of XMBC, the great open source media center for Xboxs. But, I stopped using it over the last 12 months because my needs had out-stripped the capabilities of the Xbox, which can’t support native HD content. Because of this, I now use PCs running Windows Vista Media Center [...]
11Feb2008 | Everton | 1 comment | Continued
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
Building a Home Server Part I
I’ve decided to build a proper home server as at the moment my files are scattered between different machines (pics of my home setup as requested below) and I want to centralise them, as well as creating a proper remote access solution. I’m not sure yet if Windows Home Server is the right OS yet, [...]
11Nov2007 | Everton | 13 comments | Continued
The Format War: Blu Ray Vs. HD DVD, Part 2
Last time in Part 1 Of The Format War: Blu Ray Vs HD DVD, we talked about the exceptional video and audio Blu Ray and HD DVD both offer. In addition, we covered interactive features that the new formats make possible. Lastly, we discussed features like copyright protection and digital rights management (DRM), features that [...]
24Sep2007 | Michael Lankton | 13 comments | Continued
The Format War: Blu Ray Vs. HD DVD, Part 1
Are you old enough to remember when VHS and Beta slugged it out in the 80’s to see which format would become the standard for videotapes?
Right now, two high definition optical disc formats are waging a war in the marketplace and the media to see which will emerge victorious and eventually replace DVD. Will this [...]
High Definition And The Console Gamer
High definition television is relatively young. Unlike many new technologies which never rise above niche product status, or worse yet die stillborn, high definition consumer displays have been adopted by the mass market relatively quickly.
Just a few years ago we all had standard definition CRT-based televisions. Maybe you still do, and are wanting to replace [...]
Happy 25th Birthday This Week For High Definition TV
TechDigest have picked up that European High Definition TV celebrates its birthday this week. 25 years ago the first HDTV demonstrations were given to the European Broadcasting Union in Killarney, Ireland.
28Jun2007 | Everton | 1 comment | Continued
Probably The Best Xbox 360 Forza 2 Setup In The World?
A few weeks ago I featured ‘Probably The Best Monitor In The World‘ on Connected Internet.
Now, my other blogging partner in crime Mikael, has unearthed what surely must be the best Xbox 360 Forza 2 Setup In The World.
Just feast your eyes on the setup below! This crazed gamer has splashed out on THREE [...]
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