Posted in Soundcards on April 30th, 2008 No Comments »
This week, Auzentech updated their X-FI Prelude drivers for improved Dolby Digital Live support. Why is this important? This proves that Auzentech is a company that is willing to increase the performance of their product through timely release of driver updates, something Creative is notoriously bad at doing.
While somewhat pricey, the X-Fi Prelude [...]
Posted in Digital Cable Tuners on April 26th, 2008 1 Comment »
Sony made a splash in the media center world a couple of months ago being the first OEM to sell individual digital cable tuners, which are used to watch HD programming on premium cable channels. While you still need to have a computer with the special version of Vista that supported digital [...]
Posted in Guides, HDTV on April 17th, 2008 No Comments »
Bigger is better, right? People buying shiny new TVs always struggle as to how big a TV you should buy. With the prices of HDTVs falling, people can afford to buy bigger and bigger TVs.
To help everyone find the right size TV, THX has developed a quick process for calculating the optimum viewing distance [...]
Posted in HD-DVD/Blu-Ray on April 13th, 2008 No Comments »
Update 8/10/08: Slysoft currently is offering a 20% discount on AnyDVD HD through August 24th.
So you want to rip your Blu-ray movies to a hard drive? Even with a ton of DRM, ripping Blu-ray movies is possible.
Here are three options for ripping Blu-ray movies:
AnyDVD HD - AnyDVD HD is almost [...]
Posted in Cyberlink, News on April 2nd, 2008 2 Comments »
Cyberlink has announced the release of PowerDVD 8 Ultra, which is the only viable option right now to watch Blu-ray (or HD-DVDs) on a computer since Windows XP or Vista does not have a native ability to play Blu-ray movies.
PowerDVD Ultra has been a maturing piece of software. Version 7 lacked HD audio codecs for [...]