Posts categorised: Media PC Hardware

0Blackgold BGT3630 LogoProblem with BlackGold 36xx TV Cards

Published on by in Media PC Hardware.

I’ve been hav­ing on-off issues for a while with my TV–Server.  I run DVBLink on top of Win­dows Server which allows me to share my TV sig­nals to all my PCs, Android phones, PS3, Xbox and other DLNA devices.  How­ever, I’ve had an issue where seem­ingly at ran­dom I’ve lost the abil­ity to tune some… Read more »

0Motorola NYXBoard QWERTY RemoteLooking beyond the boxee remote-keyboard

Published on by in Media PC Hardware. Updated 25th October 2011.

For a long time I’ve been search­ing for the ideal HTPC remote con­trol.  I want a fairly stand­ard remote, but with a QWERTY key­board on the back, or inside a flip/slide out part.  I’ve been track­ing the options in , and even­tu­ally ordered myself a Boxee remote a few months back.  The boxee is an… Read more »

0Media ServerA new Media Server

Published on by in Media PC Hardware. Updated 23rd October 2011.

As I men­tioned recently, I am for a new res­id­ence.  Hav­ing already exper­i­mented suc­cess­fully with dvblink, I decided it was time to move my TV cards from my HTPC to my server and hand the duty of record­ing, transcod­ing and stor­ing TV to the server.

0DVB LogicPlanning a new networked home media setup

Published on by in Media PC Hardware, Misc Media Software, Storage. Updated 5th June 2012.

In the com­ing months I will be buy­ing a new prop­erty, and to go with my new home, I’ve been read­ing up lots on how I might integ­rate a new home media setup.  In recent months sev­eral excit­ing new options have become avail­able, which finally makes the sort of setup I have always desired a… Read more »

0Antec Fusion Remote HTPC Case LogoComparison of HTPC GPU’s

Published on by in Media PC Hardware, News. Updated 1st October 2011.

Anandtech has an excel­lent art­icle com­par­ing 4 bot­tom end GPU’s for HTPC’s.  The art­icle is extens­ive and does a good job of explain­ing issues of fram­er­ate tim­ing, cadence detec­tion, tele­cin­ing and pull­down as well as com­par­ing the 4 GPU’s.  As we don’t believe in rein­vent­ing the wheel — we recom­mend any­one build­ing a HTPC setup… Read more »

0AMD Vision Fusion Premium LogoFusion E-450 coming

Published on by in Media PC Hardware, News. Updated 1st October 2011.

Semi­Ac­cur­ate has news that AMD are to immin­ently release a new Zacate mem­ber of the Brazos plat­form.  Accord­ing to pre­vi­ous inform­a­tion on Anandtech and Hexus the E-450 is clocked at 1.65GHz (up from 1.60GHz) and has graph­ics clocked at 600MHz (up from 500MHz).  It will also reportedly sup­port higher speeds of DDR3 memory, and fea­ture… Read more »