Here's a review of the week's posts on GeekTonic. In case you missed any of the posts from this past week, I always post a review of them each weekend. For anyone keeping track there still is no preorder link for the Hauppauge HD-PVR.
I've spent a lot of time on this yet-to-be released product, but it's important to those of us HTPC users so I aim to keep everyone as updated as I can. Today I posted some photos of the device thanks to SHS who is also keeping everyone very informed on today's developments. Just this evening, Hauppauge updated their website with further details and photos of this component video recorder. Here are some highlights...
Details on the Hauppauge HD-PVR are flowing in now. UPDATED 4/4/2008 8PM CST. We had photos of the device this morning thanks to a post by "SHS" on the SageTV forums that included photos of the coming-soon (not soon enough) Hauppauge HD-PVR component video recorder…
Apple's iTunes Store surpassed WalMart as the No. 1 music retailer in the U.S. this January 2008, according to the NPD MusicWatch Survey via ArsTechnica…
Want a super-easy way of archiving your DVDs to your hard driver or even to your Home Theater PC? I'll share with you my method of ripping the movie from the DVD and putting it into a folder for viewing on your HTPC. I needed a one-click script that would rip a DVD to my HTPC with the click of a button. Add to that, I wanted the rip to end up in a single mpg file with just the movie, but including any subtitles and audio tracks - all with no transcoding to maintain quality and still reduce the size…
I'm really not a big fan of the online April Fools Jokes. I do find them funny, but it's sort of annoying to try to sort through the truths and fictions when running through my RSS feeds for the day. Still, I thought I'd share with you a few Home Theater PC - related April Fools Gags that I noticed today....
Don't know if I have any HIMYM (How I Met Your Mother) fans as readers, but thought I'd point this one out... Former Secretary of State, Madeline Albright had another cameo in How I Met Your Mother last night - well it wasn't a real cameo per se, but her smiling photo did show up when Barney, played by Neil Patrick Harris was having all the women he has supposedly slept with flashing through his mind (actually they used the same 7 or so women more than once in the "flashes", but the…
Its time for Baseball with the first signs of summer peeking through. Monday marks the beginning of baseball for most Major League baseball teams. Keep up with you favorite team by importing the baseball schedule into your calendar program. With the help of MarkThisDate.com , you can import your team's schedule into Outlook, iCal, Google Calendar, Lotus Notes and even a PDF or Excel Document among others…
