Archive for November, 2007
HDTV shopping tips
If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!This short article will give you a few tips on what to look for if you are HDTV shopping.
Basically you should read the reviews on CNET, and follow the stories on EngadgetHD.
And when you get to the store - use [...]
Learn about the Linux graphics driver options
Phoronix has a great article if you want to learn about all the different open and closed source Linux graphics drivers available. The article covers Nvidia and ATI and tells you what drivers are available and how they differ.
MythTV lighting control
Check out this new YouTube video featuring MythTV with X10 integration. When the video is started you’ll see that the lights dim! Pretty neat.
Origen AE S10V HTPC Case
Yet another HTPC case. Personally I had never heard of this company before. It turns out, they only produce HTPC cases and if you don’t like this particular model, then you should be able to find another one which does. I think they look pretty unique.
The S10V will set you back $350! But it did [...]
Streaming from MythTV to iPod touch or iPhone
If you are so lucky to have an iPod Touch or an iPhone, then there is a new entry for you on the mythtv.org wiki.
The entry describes how you set up your MythTV box to automatically transcode to MPEG-4, and how you stream it. As you might guess, the entry is heavily influenced by the [...]
XMLTV release 0.5.50
XMLTV 0.5.50 was just released. It is said that this could be the last release before moving to 1.0.
Changes:
Add new XMLTV::Supplement capability to many grabbers. Those grabbers will now check a XMLTV.ORG web server for channel-id and other supplemental information. This ensures more current versions and should make new channels available sooner for [...]
Two new reviews of HTPC cases
If you like to have lots of disk drives in your HTPC case, then you should check out these new reviews. The first one is of the Thermaltake DH101 VF7001BNC and the other is of the Antec Veris Fusion Black 430 (who comes up with these names…)
The two cases have a lot in common. They [...]
More energy efficient harddrives
While I am on the subject of energy efficient harddrives, check out this article describing just released technologies from Hitachi.
The will have reduced noise and power consumption (3.3W-4.5W in idle) and will come in capacities from 250 to 500GB.
Who needs 3.5″ disks when you have the new 320GB 2.5″ disk
Western Digital is now shipping it new flagship disk for laptops. It is a 320GB 5400rpm drive all packed into the 2.5″ form factor!
Now 2.5″ disks are actually very interesting to MythTV builders. They are much less noisy than 3.5″ disks and they also use less power. The WD disk will probably idle at around [...]
Who needs 3.5″ disks when you have the new 320GB 2.5″ disk
Western Digital is now shipping it new flagship disk for laptops. It is a 320GB 5400rpm drive all packed into the 2.5″ form factor!
Now 2.5″ disks are actually very interesting to MythTV builders. They are much less noisy than 3.5″ disks and they also use less power. The WD disk will probably idle at around [...]