There is a great writeup over on The Green Button on how to setup your TV tuner card so you can switch to the other video inputs like S-Video and composite. Here’s the write up: MORE »

I really like using the Apple iTunes music store to browse new music and even buy tracks for my iPod nano. What I don’t like is not being able to use iTunes inside of Media Center. In HP’s failed attempts to sell their own branded iPods they did make a program called HP Tunes that provides an interface to iTunes within Media Center. HP Tunes use to come standard on all HP Media Center computers but if you look in the right places then you can find the stand alone program to download and install. MORE »

This is a great post from The Green Button showing the necessary registry edits to make so you can have Media Center go directly to Live TV on startup. Other tweaks include hiding menu items and startup/shutdown options. MORE »

VideoReDo is a MPEG editor that allows you to edit TV shows recorded on Media Center as well as TiVo. What makes this product so interesting is that the developer claims VideoReDo is able to automatically detect commercials and edit them out for you. MORE »

I’ve been following several different community forums conversions about the future of Microsoft’s windows media hi-def format WMV-HD and the one on AVS Forum is particular interesting due to the following response: MORE »

I am a big trivia fan and just recently started looking into how I could use Media Center to play some party games on my home theater setup. Unfortunately there are not a whole lot of options but here’s what I’ve found that works so far: MORE »

With over sixty channels of quality television programming (*ahem*) I sometimes find it difficult to discover new shows that I might like to record with my Media Center PC. Now, I’ve tried several different methods: MORE »

I have been trying for a while to get Remote Desktop to work in Media Center but with no success. I just recently noticed that there is an option under ‘Settings’ to enable Remote Desktop – and once I went through this simple setup it works! I don’t remember seeing this before Rollup 2, but maybe I was just missing it. It is kind of strange that it seems you have to use this option under Media Center settings to enable Remote Desktop. I did enable Remote Desktop manually under the Remote Desktop tab under My Computer but that didn’t seem to do anything. So if you want to get Remote Desktop working, then I suggest trying it through Media Center. MORE »

This is a nice digg pointing to a DivX browser plug-in for Firefox and Internet Explorer for Windows. You can play high-quality DivX video right in your web browser. This could be a great way to setup video playback on your personal or business website. MORE »

I’ve started to see more and more people use the onboard video of their motherboards for their home theater PCs. A good example is Nvidia’s GeForce 6150/NForce 430 chipsets that support high definition video. I believe the 6150 utilizes the PCI-Express bus architecture which is the latest and greatest interface for graphics. (Of course ATI has its own integrated onboard graphics chips that are comparable to Nvidia’s) MORE »