DivX Browser Plug-In

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. The DivX Browser Plug-In is back! After receiving lots of great feedback [...]

Is Onboard Video Good Enough for Your Home Theater PC?

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 [...]

TightVNC is Your Media Center Remote Desktop Answer

In a previous post on my blog, I talked about trying to setup remote desktop on my Media Center PC, but I just couldn’t get it to work. After some searching, I found TightVNC that is a free remote desktop application available for Windows. Install and setup was a breeze, and I was up and [...]

Xbox 360 Hard Drive DRM Issues

The Xbox 360 can stream music and photos from a networked Windows XP machine and video/TV from a Windows Media Center PC. You can also get a hard drive for the Xbox 360 and store music and video on it for playback. But some people like Gamespot are reporting that you have to rip your [...]

Connecting Your Media Center PC to Your HDTV

So you’ve decided to jump into the 21st century and setup your digital living room using a PC running some media center application like Microsoft’s Media Center. But when you go to hook up your PC to your new plasma HDTV the cables don’t match and you’re confused – what’s going on here? Well, using [...]

Napster DRM Killed the Music Star

A while ago I reviewed a couple of different music subscription services including Yahoo and Napster and decided to try Napster out for a while. I signed up for the Napster-To-Go service for 14.99/month so I could load up my iRiver Portable Media Center player with all my new music. At first, things went pretty good. [...]

Electronic Arts DRM Makes Games Unplayable with CD Burners

I originally heard about this issue on Leo Laporte’s Tech Guy radio show where some Electronic Arts computer games will not run if they detect certain CD cloners or even some cd burning software on your computer. This is really overboard – if you buy a video game and bring it home it will not [...]

Podtropolis – BitTorrent Tracker for Your Video iPod

This digg points us to Podtropolis, a BitTorrent tracking site specifically for the video iPod. The site basically tracks different BitTorrent out there for your video iPod like recent TV shows and full length movies. Welcome to Podtropolis, we are the first, best, and only tracker for iPod content. Our streets are filled with loads of [...]