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myTV christmas special - tis the time to be jolly

How would you like an extra 1500GB of diskspace? What's that now? You'd love it? Well, here's the deal. Purchase myTV anytime between December 1st - 25th and you'll automatically be entered into a boxing day draw for a brand new Seagate...

Published Tue, Dec 02 2008 2:09 AM by admin

Filed under: myTV, Christmas, Seagate, Discount, Raffle

My Own Worst Enemy got pwned.

My Own Worst Enemy 's worst enemy was its ratings; Christian Slater's TV spy run to end after nine episodes. Nice camo, dude. The fall season has its first high-profile cancellation (we're not counting The Ex-List ). NBC has put the kibosh...

Published Fri, Nov 14 2008 12:24 AM by admin

Filed under: My Own Worst Enemy, Cancelled, NBC

SwarmPlayer - direct streaming of torrents

The following is taken directly from EZTV. I've tried it out on a few torrents from various trackers and I'm more than pleased with the results. Some private trackers have banned the client meaning playback is not possible, but in general it will...

Published Sat, Jul 26 2008 1:08 PM by admin

Lightning strikes...

So I should have posted this a while ago, but I've been trying to work on the build as well as scouring the net for various replacement parts I need without it costing me a fortune as insurance hasn't come through yet. As some of you know already...

Published Sun, Jul 13 2008 1:18 PM by admin

Canadian Copyright Act amendment - Bill C-61

Some may have seen this already, some may not - but it makes for interesting reading, so here; The Government of Canada has introduced Bill C-61, An Act to Amend the Copyright Act. The proposed legislation is a made-in-Canada approach that balances the...

Published Thu, Jun 19 2008 2:52 PM by admin

MceFM - listen to Last.fm directly from Media Center

Some of you may use it already and others may have missed it completely, but MceFM - the Last.fm addin for Vista Media Center has just gone RC1. For those of you not in the know, Last.fm is the flagship product from the team that designed the Audioscrobbler...

Published Thu, Jun 19 2008 12:08 AM by admin

Filed under: MceFM, Last.fm

New-user Incentive and other news

Since summer is here and good televisions shows are harder to find than a virgin in a maternity ward I figured an incentive was needed for new users to actually purchase a license for myTV . So, the next 50 users (starting now - look at the post-date...

Published Sat, Jun 07 2008 3:56 PM by admin

Filed under: myTV, myDVD

QuiiQ Movies

QuiiQ Movies is a new Movie Archiver for Windows Vista Media Center, or as someone else said, a "nice ripoff of My Movies but in MCML". Relax, sit back and enjoy hours of pure entertainment with your family and friends. Put in your hands the...

Published Thu, Mar 20 2008 1:58 PM by admin

Filed under: myDVD, QuiiQ Movies, My Movies

A/V Quality, Filesizes and Thumbnail overlayicons (in myTV).

This is actually a re-post from the myTV Forums, but I figured I may as well post it here as some people do not follow the forums but are registered to the rss feed here. Feel free to drop by and discuss this here . Also, the information below is somewhat...

Published Thu, Feb 28 2008 2:32 AM by admin

Filed under: myTV, SDTV, Video Quality, Audio channels, HDTV, HRTV

Now running on CommunityServer 2008

This is more of a test than anything else. Written from Windows Live Writer rather than the standard web blog-interface. Anyway, the site is now running CS2008, which means certain things have changed. Have a look in your profile (click edit in the top...

Published Sun, Feb 24 2008 5:06 AM by admin

Xbox 360 HD DVD Player price drop (now US $129.99)

According to Microsoft's Major Nelson , the Xbox 360 HD DVD player add-on has a new MSRP of US $129.99. The $50 discount over the previous price is effective immediately in the US, Canada, Australia and New Zealand. This news comes hot on the heels...

Published Wed, Feb 06 2008 11:21 PM by admin

Filed under: XBox 360, HD DVD

AT&T may begin monitoring online traffic

Company says it would be a move to prevent sharing of copyrighted content AT&T Inc. may begin monitoring traffic over its online network in an effort to stamp out theft of copyrighted material, its chief executive said Wednesday. CEO Randall Stephenson...

Published Wed, Jan 23 2008 8:43 PM by admin

Resident Evil: Extinction (SEPTiC x264 720p Blu-ray rip)

I just watched Resident Evil: Extinction on Blu-ray, well, actually that's a lie, I watched the SEPTiC rip. Great video quality even at just over 4GB - some of the shots in the desert were spectacular. The audio did leave a bit to be desired, but...

Published Sat, Dec 22 2007 2:12 AM by admin

Filed under: Review

The MCSA 2007, XBox Live Video Marketplace and Michael Bay

The Media Center Show Awards 2007 myTV has been nominated as Best Commercial Media Center Application alongside mControl 2.0 , Media Center Communicator and mceTunes . So please head over to the Awards Website and put in your vote. Being up against these...

Published Wed, Dec 05 2007 8:09 PM by admin

Filed under: XBox 360, Video Marketplace, Media Center Show Awards, Michael Bay, Blu-Ray, HD DVD

Xbox 360's Fall Update - XviD/DivX support and a completely redesigned Marketplace

On December 4, Xbox 360 will receive the much anticipated fall update for the dashboard. Microsoft has slowly released information about the update -- disclosing the addition of Xbox Originals to the marketplace, the controversial Friends of Friends feature...

Published Mon, Dec 03 2007 4:03 PM by admin

Filed under: MPEG-4, XBox 360, Extender, MCX

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