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Building the Ultimate Media Center (Part 4 - Living With Windows Media Center)

Thursday, November 6, 2008

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Building the Ultimate Media Center (Part 4 - Living With Windows Media Center)

It’s been a month or so now since I finished the articles on building my Ultimate Media Center, so how is it going?

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Hardware: Vidabox Rack Server - 16Tb Storage Plus Movie Archiving

Thursday, November 6, 2008

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Hardware: Vidabox Rack Server - 16Tb Storage Plus Movie Archiving

Vidabox announce a new rack mounted, Windows Home Server=based system, bundled with My Movies.

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Windows Vista Service Pack 2 Beta

Saturday, October 25, 2008

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Windows Vista Service Pack 2 Beta

Wow!  Vista is going to get another Service Pack!

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Building the Ultimate Media Center (Part 3 - Software)

Friday, September 26, 2008

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Building the Ultimate Media Center (Part 3 - Software)

So now the hardware is all in place, it’s time to get on with the software. It’s the software on this machine that will turn it (for me at least) into the Ultimate Media Center!

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Integrating Windows Media Center and Windows Home Server Part 4

Thursday, September 25, 2008

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Integrating Windows Media Center and Windows Home Server Part 4

This is the fourth in a series of articles detailing how one network went from dilapidated junker to media hero with the help of WMC and WHS.

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HP Announce IQ800 TouchSmart PC For the Holidays

Wednesday, September 17, 2008

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HP Announce IQ800 TouchSmart PC For the Holidays

A new range of HP's TouchSmart PC will be released in November with a suite of new features.

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Building the Ultimate Media Center (Part 2 - Hardware)

Wednesday, September 10, 2008

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Building the Ultimate Media Center (Part 2 - Hardware)

So now I know what I want this new PC to do, and I’ve decided on what hardware I want, it’s time to put the beast together. I’ve been building my own PC’s on and off for the past 10 years or there about, so it’s not too much of a daunting challenge.

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Samsung: "Blu-ray has 5 years left"

Tuesday, September 9, 2008

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Samsung: "Blu-ray has 5 years left"

The guys over at Pocket-lint recently interviewed Andy Griffiths, director of consumer electronics, Samsung UK.  According to Andy, Blu-ray has only 5 years of life left.

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Building the Ultimate Media Center (Part 1)

Wednesday, September 3, 2008

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Building the Ultimate Media Center (Part 1)

I love TV. I love PC’s. What could be better for me than to combine the two together? Media Center has to be one of the best things I discovered after upgrading to Vista.

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IFA 2008: LG Announce N4B1 Network Attached Storage Device

Saturday, August 30, 2008

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IFA 2008: LG Announce N4B1 Network Attached Storage Device

Are NAS Devices about to hit the mainstream?

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