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Asus EeeKeyboard PC Becomes Official A Year Too Late [Asus Finally Announces ...]

admin — Mon, 03 May 2010 20:25:26 +0000

Asus EeeKeyboard PC Becomes Official A Year Too Late [Asus Finally Announces ...
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The Asus EeeKeyboard is no longer that unicorn portable computer that could be easily turned into a HTPC. It's a real device that's waiting for you and I to ...

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Antec Veris Fusion Black HTPC Case Review

admin — Fri, 01 Jan 2010 19:34:45 +0000

Since the wave of affordable laptops hit the mainstream market, desktop PC sales have been on the decline. Many consumers have found that their obsolete desktop PC is just sitting there collecting dust aside from occasional gaming. One option to revive the desktop PC is to convert it to a Home Theater PC (HTPC). Armed with [...]

Building an AMD HTPC – Capable of Blu-ray HD Audio Playback

admin — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 09:06:29 +0000

Building an AMD HTPC – Capable of Blu-ray HD – Audio Playback Introduction It has been quite a while since I last went under the hood of my current Home Theater PC (HTPC), but judging by the gradual degrading performance that I was beginning to see when watching the latest movies, it was pretty clear that an [...]

4 Quirky Gadgets For You To Feast Your Eyes On

admin — Sun, 27 Sep 2009 16:43:58 +0000

Some gadgets have always had a way of surprising us in to noticing them. Some of them are designed in a surprising manner, in ways that you won’t expect. But even then they remain true to what they are originally meant to do. Others are just plain weird. So when I started noticing a few [...]

CableCARD Now Open To All, No Need For OEM Installations – HotHardware

admin — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 21:01:00 +0000

For HTPC owners, most thought this day would never come. It’s a liberation celebration, and frankly, it’s coming way too late. Still, we’ll take late over never almost all of the time, so we can’t help but thank those involved for finally freeing CableCARDs of the OEM chains. This past week at CEDIA, Microsoft announced [...]

Ceton CableCARD PC tuner details emerge

admin — Sat, 12 Sep 2009 16:03:45 +0000

There’s no press release or anything, but an eagle eyed blogger noticed that the FAQ for highly anticipated multi-stream CableCARD tuner for Windows Media Center on Ceton’s site has been updated. Among the new details is the fact that there will be multiple offerings — as apposed to just the one version announced at CES [...]

Fujitsu unveils Blu-ray and Core 2 Duo packing mini PC – TechSpot News

admin — Mon, 07 Sep 2009 16:59:00 +0000

Small form factor computers have been growing in popularity recently with the introduction of Atom-based nettops. These low cost systems have proven very compelling options for consumers with budget and space constraints, but for the most part are limited to basic computing tasks such as web browsing, document processing and some audio / video playback. If [...]

Medion’s 24-inch X9613 multitouch all-in-one PC actually looks pretty hot

Maximum0077 — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 21:52:24 +0000

Medion has never really been our go-to manufacturer for new hotness, but we’re really digging this new X9613 all-in-one model it’s showing off. Even better than the sexy, the computer is fronting a 24-inch multitouch display, a miniature SideShow screen, a gloriously large physical volume knob, and a bunch of convenient media controls along the bottom. [...]

Lenovo debuts IdeaCentre Q700 HTPC

Maximum0077 — Sun, 23 Aug 2009 19:02:57 +0000

Lenovo has introduced a new HTPC, the IdeaCentre Q700. The system is comfortably nestled between the size and specifications of a nettop and full-blown HTPC. It should fit in perfectly with your other home theater equipment, and its hardware ought to chew through basic HTPC-oriented tasks. The IdeaCentre Q700 is equipped with an Intel Pentium E5200 2.5GHz [...]

How-to: Build a Blu-ray / TV tuner-equipped HTPC for under $1,000

Maximum0077 — Sat, 08 Aug 2009 15:37:46 +0000

Pundits may argue that the modern day HTPC has no place in the modern day living room, but we disagree. In fact, with the economy still struggling to regain its swagger, folks are staying in and finding entertainment at home more than ever. It’s that truth that spurred us to start this here project: building a fully [...]