Archive for September, 2008

Hauppauge HD-PVR – Now with Surround Sound AC3 and AAC

Monday, September 29th, 2008

From: GeekTonic by Brent Evans

If you’ve been patiently waiting for the surround sound capability on your Hauppauge HD-PVR, your day has arrived.  The new driver (in public beta) was officially released today and includes AAC and AC3 surround sound audio. 
The HD-PVR is a HD video recorded that uses output from your analog, [...]

TIVO makes a move into HTPC software

Monday, September 29th, 2008

From: GeekTonic by Brent Evans

A Tivo Home Theater PC software called LiquidTV is coming in October thanks to the partnership with consumer electronics maker Tivo and software maker Nero.  The software application will provide the TiVo experience on personal computers allowing users to record shows onto a computer hard drive, move content [...]

VidaBox RoomClientHD Supports Blu-ray & DVD Streaming in Full 1080p

Monday, September 29th, 2008

From: The Green Button

New VidaBox
RoomClientHD™ supports Blu-ray & DVD streaming in full 1080p with HD audio
support - all in a miniature, palm-sized package
Westbury, NY -
September 29th - VidaBox is proud to announce the new RoomClientHD™, a
2″ tall, palm-sized media extender that provides Blu-ray & DVD
streaming support for full 1080p and lossless audio codecs.  Designed to [...]

Niveus Brings Unified Search To Windows Media Center

Monday, September 29th, 2008

From: The Green Button

Easily search through
entire media catalogues and select Internet content utilizing the unified
Niveus Search tool, now available for download.
Milpitas, CA –
September 26, 2008 – Niveus Media, Inc. announces beta availability of the
new unified Niveus Search, which enables easy retrieval of content accessible
across the local network and Internet. The patent-pending Niveus Search offers
Windows Vista [...]

TV Premiers: What To Watch 9/28 - 10/04

Saturday, September 27th, 2008

From: GeekTonic by Brent Evans

If you’ve survived last week - you’re likely ready for the TV Premiere week of Fall 2008 - week 5 and I have the scoop on all of the premieres.
(To see more about the past weeks premieres: week one , week two , week three, week [...]

This week on TheDigitalLifestyle.com

Friday, September 26th, 2008

From: The Green Button

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Remember the last Windows Media Center CE Box
With the talk of a headless Windows Media Center System Richard Miller reminded me of Microsoft’s last attempt at a CE Media Center device.  The LG LRM-519 was a Set To Box device with Windows Media [...]

Use Twitter to Find Good TV to Watch

Thursday, September 25th, 2008

From: GeekTonic by Brent Evans

With the new TV season here I’m always looking for ways to gauge interest of the new shows so I know which ones to watch and which ones to delete from my DVR favorites list.  A easy way to do that is to use Twitter Search (summize) to see [...]

S1Digitial Platinum Edition with TV Pack Review

Thursday, September 25th, 2008

From: The Green Button

So it’s been about a month since my S1Digital Media Center arrived and I couldn’t be happier with it.  Like every other review I’ve read about their systems this thing is just rock sold!  I meant to get this post written sooner but IKE had other plans for me, including no power [...]

The Media Center Show #174 - Open Media Library

Thursday, September 25th, 2008

From: The Green Button

Listen Here (mp3)
This week I am talking David Shulitz a developer working on the Open Media Library project. OML is a open source movie browser applications for Vista Media Center, it’s a great looking application that adds some great functionality to Media Center (download from HERE) . I also have email [...]

Deal of the Day - $50 off Blu-ray Player with 3 Discs

Wednesday, September 24th, 2008

From: GeekTonic by Brent Evans

The $199 deal for the Sony Blu-ray player is over (it’s now $229), but if you’re still in the market for a Blu-ray Player, Amazon has a decent deal where you get $50 off when you buy a Blu-ray disc player together with 3 Blu-ray discs from Warner Home Video.
To [...]