Posts tagged: htpc

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 »

2Windows Media Center eHome LogoFull 7MC codec setup

Published on by in Codecs, Misc Media Software, Windows Media Center. Updated 30th December 2011.

I’ve pre­vi­ously pos­ted sev­eral times about codec issues on 7mc, but I’ve now got a solu­tion that is com­pre­hens­ive, fairly simple and works con­sist­ently.  With a few free codecs and util­it­ies you can have full decod­ing sup­port, DXVA, sub­titles and fant­astic flex­ib­il­ity work­ing in 64bit (or 32bit) Media Cen­ter.  The fol­low­ing instruc­tions are spe­cific to… Read more »

0Windows Media Center eHome LogoFixed: Media Center 7 behind taskbar on startup

Published on by in Windows Media Center. Updated 5th February 2013.

I’ve had a very irrit­at­ing prob­lem with my new Win­dows 7 Media Cen­ter HTPC setup. I have 7MC set to load full­screen on star­tup (as the PC is a ded­ic­ated HTPC), but some­thing I changed at some point was caus­ing the taskbar to show on top of Media Cen­ter (i.e. Media Cen­ter didn’t have win­dow… Read more »