The Problem : If you don’t know what the Black Screen of Death (the other BSOD) then you are either incredibly lucky, or very smart. This is a problem that many people who have their Windows…
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While the news around CableCARD tuners has been up and down over the last few week, this announcement from Ceton certainly falls into the prior category. Today via the company’s Twitter feed…
It seems as though it’s becoming a trend to delay CableCARD tuners! Hauppauge and SiliconDust had both announced in July that they would be releasing their CableCARD tuners at the end of July…
Ever since last year home theater PC owners who have had an interest in CableCARD equipped PCs have been looking forward to August 1, 2011. I’m hear to tell you that your dreams have not been…
One of the great things about Windows Media Center is that it “just works!” But one question I received recently was from a reader who wondered if Media Center would automatically update his…
We were starting to wonder about when the SiliconDust HDHomeRun Primes would start shipping. Our own Richard Gunther pre-ordered the three-tuner version, which was to begin shipping yesterday. He…
Earlier today Major Nelson, Microsoft’s head PR person for Xbox, announced two new peripherals coming to the gaming console this fall. The first is a bluetooth headset that obviously works with…
The Water by Low Carbon PC is a beautiful small-form-factor PC that seems to be squarely targeted at the home theater PC (HTPC.) It share many of the same design aspects of the Earth model that we…
If the time is wrong on your Media Center PC, your recordings may start late or cut off too early. Improve the reliability of your time service updates by changing to one of a number of different…
We’re big fans of TotalMedia Theatre at the DMZ, and we noticed that ArcSoft is running a site-wide special this weekend that discounts everything in their online store by 30%. That makes…
Hauppauge announced way back in 2009 that they intended to release their own CableCARD tuner, then later said that they were working with SiliconDust to produce a CableCARD tuner of their own. While…
For the last three days if you tried to watch anything on Netflix through Windows Media Center you would receive an Authorization Failure error message that stated: “Our apologies – we…
