The Media Viking

Thank you all for your continued support here at The Media Viking. The site will be down for a few hours throughout the day for some maintenance and upgrades. We will be back as quickly as possible. Thank you again! Coffee makes the world go ’round…

This will be a rather short rant, but Sony has officially annoyed and pissed me off! Playstation 3 owners have been damn near begging and pleading with Sony for a firmware update that adds support for MKV files for…..well since the PS3 was first released basically. All of their pleading has been in vain and [...]

I’ve been caught up with a few mini-projects the last week or so, as well as a new show. As I mentioned before, I am researching and picking the specs for my new HTPC build. For pricing reasons, I’m now considering reusing an old Athlon X2 CPU, mobo, and ram to drastically cut down on [...]

New Year With a new year comes new projects (and after Christmas specials)! I apologize for the pause in updates. We took a short, unexpected vacation to get all prepared for 2010. Hopefully everyone had a safe and wonderful holiday and took time to be with family and friends. Well, now we are settled back [...]

Engadget has a story noting that Netflix has just agreed to delay new releases from Warner Brothers for 28 days after they are released for sale before offering them up to subscribers. Netflix is expected to settle for similar agreements with additional studios soon as well. Now the rumor is that these agreements are in [...]

A few years back when blu-ray was just starting to come about, Richard Weber wrote in an article entitled “The Age of Blu-Ray” detailing some of the main benefits of blu-ray technology: “Do you remember how awesome it was when you upgraded from you old VHS tapes to DVDs? The picture was way clearer and [...]

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There’s a new page up to detail and follow my projects here at home. I will be posting pictures and updates on how my home theater develops. So far there is some info on my main server running ESXi to host many servers as virtual machines, including my media server and file server. Hit the [...]

Here are the blu-ray releases for December 1, 2009. I don’t know about you, but I have been waiting very impatiently for one of these and am so relieved to see it finally out. Snatch has been missing from the blu-ray world for far too long! It has also jumped straight to the top on [...]

Here’s the list of movies being released on Blu-Ray for November 24th, 2009: Air America Angel Heart Angels and Demons Cujo Four Christmases Funny People Frailty Gomorrah My Bloody Valentine My Brilliant Career New Police Story Santa Buddies Shorts The Monster Squad The Sopranos: Complete First Season The Way Of The Gun If you’ve seen [...]