- Xbox 360 Media Server Setup
- Digital Trends Guides - September 22, 2008
- Got an Xbox 360? Use it to connect all the video, photos, and music on your home network and view them on your TV. In this step-by-step guide, we'll show you how to set up a UPnP sever on any Windows or Mac computer so the Xbox can access it, and the...
- Playstation 3 Media Server Setup
- Digital Trends Guides - July 21, 2008
- My digital media was scattered among various drives, computers, and discs. I wanted seamless central control over all of it, so I decided to use my Sony PlayStation 3 as a media hub, with my 40-inch Samsung HDTV as a monitor. Now I can view or listen...
- Create Your Own Blu-ray Video Discs
- PC World Articles - June 30, 2008
- From shooting great video with your HD camcorder to playing the footage back on your HDTV, here's how to turn your own home videos into high-def Blu-ray masterpieces.
- I Want Wireless Entertainment, and I Want It Now
- PC World Articles - April 29, 2008
- Wireless, multiroom home audio is here, sort of. But wireless HD video is still mostly a pipe dream.
- Clean up your tags with BeaTunes - good data is good for you.
- TechLore - March 25, 2008
- Everyone with a digital music collection of any size has this problem: their music tags are far from perfect. Maybe it's because you ripped the songs from a CD before it was in cddb or one of the other directories, maybe there was no cddb back when y...
- Home Theater Buying Guide
- Digital Trends Guides - March 4, 2008
- Home Theater is, in its most basic terms, a dedicated space in which to enjoy audio and video. From there, the definition becomes far more personal, so to help you make the right choices, you need to ask three questions:“What do you want?&rdquo...
- Wireless-N: More Speed and Range For Your Network
- TechLore - March 1, 2008
- Wireless networking has become so common in the average household; virtually everyone is connected to the internet wirelessly with their laptops, game consoles, and other devices. More recently, it's become important for users to have the speed to st...
- The Novice's Guide to Video Formats
- TechLore - January 23, 2008
- The following is a brief introduction to eight of the most frequently-encountered video formats circulating the web and the digital home entertainment circuit: MPG, AVI, MOV, ASF, WMV, RM and FLV. MPG (MPEG) MPG stands for Moving Picture Experts Grou...
- Play HD Movies on (Almost) Any PC
- PC World Articles - January 4, 2008
- We look at the minimum requirements for playing high-definition video on a PC--using two basic hardware configurations, five different graphics boards, and a CPU speed that we gradually decreased while watching for signs of compromised playback.
- Sansa TakeTV: A First Look
- TechLore - November 19, 2007
- Looking for an easy way to take videos from your computer and watch them on your TV? There are certainly a variety of solutions to that problem available today, whether you decide to burn a DVD, build a media PC, or use one of the myriad of wireless ...
- Little Things You Hate About Home Audio/Video
- Digital Trends Talk Backs - November 15, 2007
- I notice lots of little annoying things about the audio and video products that traipse through my work space in a constant procession. Over time I’ve noticed they’re the same little annoying things all the time—the same trifling mi...
- Sony Convergence Procedure
- TechLore - October 31, 2007
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- 1080p Projector Buying Guide
- Digital Trends Guides - September 17, 2007
- With all of the high-def projectors cropping up at this year’s CEDIA expo, it’s easy for even the most die-hard home theater buffs to get blinded by the light. And with prices starting to plunge below $4,000 USD, 1080p projectors are star...
- Top 5 Ways to Enjoy Your Gadgets More
- TechLore - September 11, 2007
- Are you getting the most out of your gadgets? With so many products and information out there, it's hard to keep up with the useful items that any average person would buy. Sure, there are plenty of products for owners of specific devices (i.e., seem...
- Full HD: Hip or Hype?
- Digital Trends Talk Backs - August 19, 2007
- Full HD is the latest buzzphrase in television marketing. If we want the latest and greatest in HDTV, we want Full HD—or so we’re told. But is it possible to have too much of a good thing? Full HD is marketing-ese for 1080p. Since al...