So the majority of the parts of come in for my home theater PC build. I’m still need to get some more memory for it and some form of remote. A number of people have mentioned the Logitech diNovo Mini to use as a remote as well as a bluetooth keyboard and mouse if needed. [...]
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 [...]
Tags: amd, ati, htpc, hulu, netflix, onkyo, tv
Posted February 9, 2010 by vidkun under General, Projects, Services
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 [...]
Tags: hdmi, home theater, htpc, intel, Linux, media, media server, vdpau, XBMC, xvba
Posted January 16, 2010 by vidkun under General, Hardware, Projects
I’m always interested to hear about people’s “extreme” projects, whether it be an extreme media server or some interesting computer mod. The home theater does not need to be relegated to a dry or boring niche of nothing but HD televisions, HTPC’s, and Onkyo audio receivers. Media has be stored somewhere and with the growing [...]
Tags: high definition, home cinema, home theater, htpc, media, media server, streaming
Posted December 21, 2009 by vidkun under Hardware, Projects