Floppyhead - Digital Media and Home Theater Computers

Watching HD programming from your cable provider requires a digital cable tuner for your computer. Unfortunately, certain digital rights management restrictions do not allow you to buy such a tuner off the shelf and plug it into an existing computer. You have to buy a new computer from the [...] Continue Reading…

With the release of Vista and its media center software, a new era of high definition content was supposed to have been ushered in with the introduction of digital cable tuners. These tuners were supposed to turn your computer into a high-powered Tivo. Reality did not live up to [...] Continue Reading…

Is it me or does Auzentech appear to be the most innovative sound card manufacturer around? It seems like they are up to their old tricks again by announcing the Auzen X-Fi HomeTheater 7.1, which will support HDMI 1.3, HD-audio codecs, and EAX 5.0. Finally, one card to rule [...] Continue Reading…

I am thinking of renovating my basement, preferably with a HD projector and a media center. I would love to add some home automation items, especially since it would be a good time to switch out electrical boxes. I have started doing research into which protocol I would want [...] Continue Reading…

I have been looking for a way to prioritize my tuners in Vista Media Center. Why do I want dictate which tuner is used as the default? Mainly to avoid digital rights management. I currently use the HDHomerun as a QAM tuner to receive unencrypted HD [...] Continue Reading…

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 [...] Continue Reading…

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 [...] Continue Reading…

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 [...] Continue Reading…

So you want to rip Blu-ray movies to a hard drive? Good news!

You can rip Blu-ray movies even though they have a ton of content protection that make watching them on a computer difficult, which is especially frustrating for people who simply want to watch their own movies. [...] Continue Reading…

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 [...] Continue Reading…