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High Def Delight

Archive for the ‘HTPC’ Category

August 4th, 2008

Video Interlacing: Enemy of the peoples

I was busy ripping some episodes of The Legend of Prince Valiant (a cartoon series from the early 1990s), one of the first things I did was to check if the video was interlaced, so that I could change my settings appropriately.
You see, to reduce flicker, television shows played at standard definition transmitted a half […]

By Christopher Swenson -- 1 comment

May 3rd, 2008

Boob Tube meet TubeStick Hybrid: HD Tuner for Mac

Equinux’s TubeStick has been around for a while in Europe using their broadcasting standard (DVB-T) but this is the first time us in North America can join in on the fun. In a market previously dominated by Elgato, Equinux hopes to take some of that market share away by releasing an ATSC/NTSC standard-compatible tuner. The […]

By Zach Flauaus -- 0 comments

May 3rd, 2008

FusionHDTV7 by DViCO, Dual HDTV Tuner Card, Looks Saweet!

A new HD Tuner card for your PC is on the market, but please try to hold your excitement… Ok, enough holding. The FusionHDTV7 (catchy…) is the “world first dual HD (Digital or QAM) reception PCI express card” which is compatible with both ATSC (digital/HD signals) in North America along with NTSC for you old […]

By Zach Flauaus -- 0 comments

April 12th, 2008

Blu-Ray now in PowerDVD Ultra

Well, it seems as if computer software and hardware manufacturers are not afraid to jump on the Blu bandwagon anymore since HD-DVD is dead and all. CyberLink has announced that PowerDVD Ultra, their software for movie playback, now supports Blu-Ray including BD-Live Profile 2.0, as well as HDMI support, MPEG-4/H.264, MPEG-2 HD, and WMV-HD movie […]

By Zach Flauaus -- 0 comments

February 10th, 2008

EyeTV 3: First Week of Use

I have the opportunity to review EyeTV 3, the popular TV Tuner/DVR software for the Mac, and being the Mac head I am, I of course took the chance and I must say that I am happy with the upgrade with two caveats. Click through for the full first week rundown.
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By Zach Flauaus -- 0 comments

January 17th, 2008

EyeTV Updates to Version 3.0

For the Mac fans out in the crowd sporting an Elgato tuner or one of the other compatible tuners, Elgato has released a new version to their popular EyeTV tuner software, which means it’s finally turned 3.0. Featuring fifteen new features, including a more Leopard-like interface complete with Cover Flow and smart folders, the update […]

By Zach Flauaus -- 0 comments

January 4th, 2008

HP Slimline s3330f Crosses The War Lines, Does Both HD Formats

Well, apparently HP isn’t busy taking sides in the format wars. The just announced HP Pavilion Slimline s3330f has some pretty nice specs for being a small machine, but the biggest feature: it packs both a Blu-Ray and HD-DVD drive (read only, though). Featuring a 2.8GHz AMD Athlon 64 X2 processor, 500GB SATA drive, a […]

By Zach Flauaus -- 0 comments

December 19th, 2007

Passive Technologies’ PC is Active in Media

Passive Technologies has released their new lifeStation HD media center computer. This is somewhat reminiscent of the Alienware PCs that were media center oriented. The specs are not detailed, but they give us a general idea of what to expect. The images that are the “Features at a glance” include that the PC will be […]

By Zach Flauaus -- 0 comments

October 18th, 2007

HP m9000t “Elite” Reviewed, Thumbs-upped

ComputerShopper has released a review on their site with the HP m9000t. The short, albeit detail featured, review has good things to say about the PC, with only one main gripe against it. The m9000t has an Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600 that’s overclocked to 3.2GHz from 2.6, along with 2GB of RAM, 500GB of […]

By Zach Flauaus -- 0 comments