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Hello. My name is Jon and I’m a Media Center addict.
I have a small audience over at my site, theHTPC.net, so you may recognize me from there. If not, that’s OK. You’ll become acquainted with me soon enough if you’re a regular of this site or like to read about some of the ins and outs of Media Center, Media Browser and other things related [...]
Read Article ›CableCards and OEM? Not so fast, my friend!
I’m a day late, but it’s been hectic at work. Anyway, live from CEDIA in Atlanta, GA (near my home of Lawrenceville), Microsoft has officially announced that they have partnered with CableLabs to bring you OEM-free cablecard tuners for Windows 7…effectively breaking the ties that OEM providers previously had on them.
I’m not going to [...]
7MC to get native Netflix add-on.
Windows Media Center 7 will get an updated Netflix interface according to this article over at AppScout.com. There was quite a bit of excitement when it was introduced a few months ago for Vista, but lost a lot of its luster when it was found to not support extenders and, well, just not have [...]
Read Article ›Wired Home
We just bought a new house and are now in the “settling down” phase, well, at least my wife is…the geek in me always wants to tinker with things and find other ways to do things that were already easy to do in the first place. I was lucky enough to get a house that [...]
Read Article ›meta<browser/> 2.0 (Preview)
meta<browser/> started off as a fun project to gather metadata for Media Browser, one of the best Media Center plugins I’ve used, and chances are, if you’re reading this, you are already a user of Media Browser. Over the year meta<browser/> has had a decent following and has helped many people (including myself) in organizing [...]
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