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Canadian TV Show DottoTech last week devoted a large section of its program over to Windows Home Server and the HP MediaSmart Server. Host Steve Dotto covered most of the basics of using Windows Home Server in some depth, including the use of WHS as a simple file server to a Mac. If you look carefully, about [...]

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Zoostorm Silenced Windows Home Server

Winning the February 2008 “Strangest Named Home Server” award, comes the Zoostorm Silenced Home Server, which is being made available in the UK by Zoostorm over at PC Nextday. Interestingly, the server is built within a compact AV enclosure, which keeps it cool and quiet and allows you to slot the system under the TV. Specs are [...]

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Add-In Review: Recorded TV Manager 3.4.3 for Windows Home Server

In my digital world Windows Home Server (WHS) was always going to be a logical partner for use with  XP Media Center (MCE) and a media extender. At the moment WHS does not quite manage to integrate itself seamlessly between recording TV on an MCE and watching it using a media extender, this is in [...]

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Add-In Update: TiVo Publisher 1.21

Rob Durfee’s released an update to his add-in, TiVo Publisher which is now at version 1.21. The update includes the following features and fixes: Firewall Port exceptions are added automatically when the add-in first starts. FLV and files with the .DIVX extension now appear in Videos. Playlists now show up in Music (they appear as folders). M3U and WPL [...]

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CES 2008: HP MediaSmart Range Product Data Sheets Online

Following last week’s announcement of the new HP MediaSmart range on show here at CES, you can now download product data sheets for the MediaSmart TV, MediaSmart Receiver MediaSmart Server and the MediaVault. More Info: HP at CES

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CES 2008: New HP MediaSmart TV Range

  So, wrapping up the HP MediaSmart announcement for CES, comes a range of HP MediaSmart TVs. Remember that MediaSmart Receiver I told you about earlier? It’s built-in, so it’ll work with your home server and bundles in Extender for Windows Media Center (still a mouthful) for good meansure.  You also get 1080p resolution, 3 HDMI ports [...]

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Add-in: Recorded TV Manager for Windows Home Server (Beta)

Recorded TV Manager is a new add-in from Fredrick Drash which monitors Recorded TV folders on your Media Center home computers and automatically moves or copies the content over to your home server. The add-in is based on Recorded TV Manager 2 and is currently in beta - Fredrick submitted the add-in for the Code2Fame developer competition, [...]

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