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Dell Ships XPS 410 With Digital Cable Tuners
So Dell has finally shipped the XPS 410 with Digital Cable Tuners. By my count, there are now three viable companies selling media centers with CableCard support: Dell, HP, and Velocity Micro PC. Dell also has made an interesting choice with the XPS 410. Digital Cable Tuners (DCTs) are only available on the high-end [...]
Continue reading...Crestron Partners with Microsoft for Media Center Integration
4. August 2007
Crestron and Microsoft are teaming up for a media center home automation system. One of the benefits of Vista’ media center interface is its flexibility, allowing third parties to develop plugins that seamlessly fit into the media center interface. It looks like Crestron might tap into that flexibility to offer home automation [...]
Continue reading...Is OpenCable Platform (OCAP) Delaying Media Centers?
22. July 2007
Where are all the media center computers with digital cable tuners? Digital cable tuners (DCTs) were supposed to have ushered in a new era for media center PCs, allowing HD cable television to be watched on your computer. Unfortunately, reality has been less than exciting. VelocityMicro PC is the only viable vendor for [...]
Continue reading...Wireless Vista Remote Control RC-2400 from Trust
11. July 2007
Hopefully we will being to see more Vista Media Center remotes start to hit the market. In this light, Trust has announced the release of their Wireless Vista Remote Control, which appears only available outside the U.S. I assume that the remote will be eventually available in the U.S., though that is just a guess. [...]
Continue reading...Vista View releases the Saber DA-1N1-I TV Tuner card
11. July 2007
Vista View contacted me about the release of their new tuner card, the Saber DA-1N1-I. It will be available at most online electronic stores. Here is the press release: July 1, 2007 — Vista ViewTM introduces the Saber DA-1N1-I TM TV Tuner card. This card fills the need for a high quality Combo TV tuner with [...]
Continue reading...My Movies 2.31: Access Ripped HD-DVD and Blu-Ray Movies
9. July 2007
One thing that makes media center computers different than Tivo or a cable box is the ability to archive all your DVDs on a hard drive. My Movies is a well-known plugin for Vista Media Center that catalogs your ripped movies and downlaods associated meta data from your movie files. Accessing your movies [...]
Continue reading...Digeo’s Moxi DVRs Are Competition for Tivo and Vista Media Center
4. July 2007
Digeo is scheduled to release two DVRs this fall as retail products, after years of selling products to Cable companies. Now that CableCards are a requirement in most set top boxes, it will be nice to have some choices to replace the standard cable box. Right now the only options are Tivo [...]
Continue reading...Sony VGX-XL3 Media Center Stuck in a Corner
21. June 2007
A couple of weeks ago I went in search of the VAIO Digital Living System VGX-XL3 at the Sony Style store at Tyson’s Corner in Virginia. I wanted to to see if they were selling Sony’s CableCard offering. It took me a while but I found it stuck in a [...]
Continue reading...Rip HD-DVD and Blu-ray discs to a hard drive
20. June 2007
The goal of any media center user should be to store as much content as possible digitally. The release of the next generation of DVDs, known as HD-DVD or Blu-ray, was supposed to allow a “legal” way to copy your movies to a hard drive (referred as Managed Copy). Managed Copy is [...]
Continue reading...Alienware’s Hangar 18 launches with a thud
6. June 2007
Alienware, which is now owned buy Dell, anounced the release of its Hangar 18 HD media center. I had high hopes for this system based on its stylish design and hopefully low price point compared to the marketplace. After releasing the specs for the system, the Hangar 18 media center appears to [...]
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9. August 2007
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