Sometime in the last 24 hours my Cisco STA1520 Tuning Adapter was updated to the latest firmware. We knew the firmware existed and was out in the wild thanks to Ben Drawbaugh over at Engadget HD but there was no specific release date. Well I finally got my update. For those that do not know [...]
Filed under: Hardware, News | Tagged: cable_card, Ceton, sdv, tuners, tuning adapter, updates | 11 Comments »
Engadget posted a review on the new Harmony 650 from Logitech. I have been a big fan of the Logitech Harmony series since my Father introduced it to me a few years ago. If you know my father that last statement probably took you by surprise and you had to read it twice. I personally [...]
Filed under: Hardware, Reviews | Tagged: harmony, Logitech, remote control | 1 Comment »
Note: This is a guest post by James from the Media Center Blog. Now this is how the CableCARD tuners should have been working from the start! After having my CableCARD ready PC for over a year and a half I can finally archive most digital and HD content that I record with the tuners. [...]
Filed under: Hardware, Reviews | Tagged: ATI, cable_card, DRM, guest post, sdv, tuners, tuning adapter | 6 Comments »
I have been using the update firmware for a week now and SDV tuning adapters for five days. My quick impressions: DRM is better. The jury is still out on the tuning adapters and SDV support. The update brings relaxed DRM to Media Center in both Windows Vista and Windows 7 and SDV Tuning adapter [...]
Filed under: Hardware, Reviews | Tagged: ATI, cable_card, DRM, sdv, tuners, tuning adapter | 16 Comments »
The 5-Bay SATA drive enclosure is up and running with a new 1.5TB hard drive. The storage pool (aka JBOD (Just a Bunch of Disks)) now looks like this: The setup was very much plug and play except for one small snag. The eSATA port on the back of my HP Media Smart WHS only [...]
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