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Saturday, November 07, 2009 12:19 AM

Windows 7 Digital Cable Advisor and CableCard Copy Freely released !!!

Microsoft announced at CEDIA that customers will now be able to add digital cable tuners with a CableCARD™ to any Windows® 7-based PC with Windows® Media Center. The Digital Cable Advisor tool is being provided by Microsoft to analyze consumer PCs to
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Wednesday, September 09, 2009 7:14 PM

Build a Windows 7 HDTV DVR Yourself

FINALLY!!!  We made some seriously cool announcements tonight at CEDIA.  Here’s an excerpt from the press release: Today at CEDIA EXPO 2009, Microsoft Corp. discussed key Windows Media Center features for Windows 7 and announced a series of
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Monday, July 27, 2009 4:05 PM

“Microsoft has yet again raised the bar” – engadget.com on Win7 Media Center

Engadget.com has a pretty decent review of the new features in the Media Center feature of Windows 7 at http://www.engadgethd.com/2009/07/27/windows-7-media-center-review/ .  If you haven’t ever experienced recording TV with Windows XP, Windows Vista
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Thursday, July 02, 2009 10:08 AM

Star Wars USB drives a go – but where is Blu-ray ???

Anyone else other than me think it sucks that we can buy all sorts of Star Wars approved apparel, but when it comes to buying the widescreen Blu-ray versions of the movies they are nowhere to be found?  What is it with George Lucas and the owners
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Saturday, June 27, 2009 10:14 AM

Faith in Mankind Restored – For Now

Loyal blog readers know I haven’t been exactly kind to Dell over the years. The ridicule has been focused primarily on the lame GPU in my Latitude D820. I’m over that now. The machine is three years old so the rant can be put to rest. It’s also no surprise
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Tuesday, June 02, 2009 1:21 AM

Fall Game Preview – Halo ODST

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Saturday, October 04, 2008 1:16 PM

Ironman looks great on Blu-ray

As much as I would have liked to see HD-DVD succeed, I ended up caving and getting a Blu-ray disk player.  I purchased the Sony BDP-S350 player and have been enjoying it.  When I purchased the player a few weeks ago, I picked up a few titles
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Thursday, September 18, 2008 11:12 AM

Windows vs Walls

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Thursday, May 08, 2008 11:33 PM

Dell XPS 420 six month report

I've had my Dell XPS 420 six months now so I thought I'd give you an update on my impressions of the machine and changes I'm made to it since the initial purchase.  In reality, it just now does everything I want correctly.  Windows Vista SP1
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Thursday, April 17, 2008 12:21 AM

I wonder if they'll hook an Xbox 360 to this?

Mitsubishi Electric Diamond Vision™ Is Dallas Cowboys’ Choice for New Stadium World’s Largest 1080p High-Definition LED Video Displays Will Span 60 Yards WARRENDALE, Pa.--( BUSINESS WIRE )--The Dallas Cowboys, whose ingenuity and reputation
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Sunday, April 06, 2008 12:14 AM

When Upscaling DVD Players Are Good Enough

Tonight I was surfing the guide on my TiVo S3 an noticed Showtime HD has Casino Royale scheduled. Considering I had just watched half of the movie last weekend on DVD before heading to Phoenix and Las Vegas, I thought it was pretty interesting timing.
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Monday, March 24, 2008 12:24 AM

Is the laser on?

I’ve been a fan of Verizon FIOS since day one.  I was one of the first people outside the initial pilot on Keller, Texas to receive the service.  I’ve had it over three years.  The data service has been stellar.  Reliable. 
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Tuesday, March 18, 2008 9:30 AM

How do you learn?

A recent Wall Street Journal article, " The New Workplace Rules: No Video-Watching " written by Bobby White highlights the fact that many people are watching videos at work. It's even more interesting that the heaviest consumption of those videos takes
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Thursday, March 13, 2008 12:20 AM

Attention Blu-ray player price gougers

Supply and demand.  Can't live with em, can't shoot em.  Tom's Hardware is reporting that the price of Blu-ray players went up pretty significantly as the HD-DVD competition disappeared.  I'm in shock, aren't you?  There are a few
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Wednesday, January 09, 2008 8:40 PM

And you thought I was kidding about a 100Mbs fibre connection to my house

NEW YORK - Verizon technicians are upgrading FiOS with next-generation electronics to dramatically enhance the speeds, and thus the capabilities, of Verizon's all-fiber-optic FiOS broadband, video and voice network. Known as gigabit passive optical network
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