January 29, 2010
Another great deal from Amazon! How about a Blu-ray Disk Player for only $99.99 (shipping included)? Getting it at $100 off the $199.99 original price definitely makes it a pretty good offer. So if you are looking for a cheap and yet quality (4.5 / 5 star rating on Amazon) Blu-ray Disk player, definitely check [...]
January 26, 2010
These days, buying a decent plasma is often a lot more expensive than building your own media center. If you’ve been living under a rock for the past few years, a media center is basically a PC that’s focused solely on media playback. Check out our PDF guide on how to set up your own [...]
January 20, 2010
There are a number of applications on the Android market that will let you remote control your computer, but few are as powerful and full of cool features as Gmote 2.0. Once you install this app on your mobile phone, and you install the server software on any computer in your house, you’ll be able [...]
January 17, 2010
Boxee, as you probably know, is a cross-platform media center application which you can download for free. Because it was designed specifically for the living room, it is suitable for use in conjunction with your large screen TV, with interface elements legible from the mythical 10 feet. Whether you run the application on an Apple [...]
January 15, 2010
We’ve said it before and we’ll say it again: there’s no need for cable television in this day and age. The Internet is simply full of sites where you can watch TV on the Internet with your television for free; hook your television up to a computer and you can enjoy it all without paying [...]
July 2, 2009
Having a media center holds many great advantages. Besides an heightened flexibility, you can easily summon all of your files on your large screen television, be it pictures, music or video. But a good media center not only plays your files or lets you watch television, it also gives you the opportunity to stay connected [...]
June 15, 2009
Hulu is a website that offers commercial-supported streaming video of TV shows and movies from NBC, Fox and a few other networks. Hulu is only available for residents of the United States (there is a workaround though) and uses Flash to encode and stream videos at resolutions up to 480p. Recently, they released a desktop [...]
June 4, 2009
Networks and studios are finally getting wise to the fact that consumers want on-demand access to their favorite shows. Many media outlets have put video of recent episodes out on the Web, and the Web is a better place because of it. However, what is the point of having all this sweet content at your [...]
October 28, 2008
If you are a Windows or Mac user, you will be familiar with Windows Media Center or Front Row that both have the ability to turn your computer into a Media Center PC. Linux users don’t have such luck as most distros do not come with a media center application pre-installed. If you are like [...]
August 8, 2008
Are you sick of Mac OS X Front row, Windows Media Center or want a media center for Linux. Boxee is a new kind of media center that runs on Mac OS X and Ubuntu Linux, it will also support Windows in the near future (meanwhile check out cool windows media center alternatives). The framework [...]
