Recently – I finally decided to take the plunge with Vista Media Center Edition and High Definition Cable TV….
I’ve been a fan of MCE for some time, and up until February this year I’d been using Vista MCE with a standard analogue cable line into a dual receiver Hauppauge tuner card and doing relatively [...]
Posts Tagged ‘HDTV’
Vista MCE and HD – At Last
Posted in Everything, Gadgets and Tech, tagged HDTV, Windows Vista on March 31, 2008 | 11 Comments »
HDTV in Window Media Center Edition
Posted in Everything, Gadgets and Tech, tagged HDTV on June 5, 2006 | 1 Comment »
So, I have a computer with Windows XP Media Center Edition 2005 installed, in my living room. This PC has a dual tuner Hauppauge PVR-500 TV card, and a high performance graphics card. I have recently purchased 48” widescreen TV, and the next thing on my mine was getting an HDTV signal from [...]
Widescreen TV
Posted in Everything, Gadgets and Tech, tagged HDTV on April 24, 2006 | 3 Comments »
I was fortunate enough to take stock of a used Mitsubishi 1080i widescreen 46″ TV, from a friend of mine leaving town this week – it looks great sitting in my front room. I’m somewhat of a novice when it comes to high end TV, and acronyms like HDTV, DVI, HDCP mean very little to [...]
Composite Video, S-Video and Media
Posted in Everything, Gadgets and Tech, tagged HDTV on October 3, 2005 | 1 Comment »
I invested a chunk of this weekend messing with my home media
setup. It all began when I became aware of a problem with the
display on my MCE PC, in the midst of Simon’s Birthday Party – I was hoping to play some background music and scrolling pictures
during the party, but the display turned a horrible [...]
TIVO will not keep my recorded TV shows…
Posted in Everything, Gadgets and Tech, tagged HDTV on September 14, 2005 | Leave a Comment »
Another good reason why Windows XP MCE is better than TIVO (you need another excuse?)…
At least,
for now, MCE will enable you to keep recorded content for as long as
you like, unlike TIVO, who subscribe to stiffing their customers with
their new policy to expire recorded copyrighted TV shows.
http://www.boingboing.net/2005/09/13/tivo_wont_save_certa.html
