The Media Viking

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 [...]

It has been a few weeks since I first mentioned my plans to review the Netflix and Blockbuster rental services. As promised, here is the first of those reviews detailing my experience with Netflix’s free two week trial. So let’s see how things went… Netflix quotes an average 3 day turnaround on their shipping, but [...]

Let’s face it. These days we have become lazy. We just want to come home from a long week of work, sit back, have a nice ice cold cola (with whiskey of course), and watch some pretty, flashy images dance upon the screen. Traditionally, we would drive down to the local video store, walk around [...]