Update 18th July 2008: I called Domotec today and the difference in response was like night and day. New component on it’s way to us now. Horrah!
If you’d spoken to me or Lindsay recently you might have thought we were on comission from iRobot, the manufacturers of the Roomba vacuum cleaner. We’ve been raving…
Poor Customer Service from iRobot UK (Roomba)
By Howard | Published June 30th, 2008My 1080p HTPC: The Software
By Howard | Published June 26th, 2008As I mentioned in the last post, I’m running the Media Center (yes, that’s how they spell it) interface from Vista Ultimate to drive my HTPC. Out of the box Vista Media Center (VMC) is capable of playing DVDs and MPEG2 broadcast content – such as the output of a Hauppauge DVB-T or DVB-S…
My 1080p HTPC
By Howard | Published June 21st, 2008Part one of a series of posts where I record how I built my 1080p capable Home Theatre PC.
Having ditched the increasingly expensive and irrelevant SkyHD last year, we’ve been watching what little broadcast TV we see via a Windows Media Centre machine upstairs connected to an Xbox 360 front end. This was fine…
New Laptop Time
By Howard | Published June 20th, 2008As regular readers will remember, I ordered the first generation MacBook Pro within hours of Steve Jobs’ keynote. That was January 2006 and at the time the spec – 2 GHz Core Duo with 2GB of RAM – was monster. The promise of dual booting OSX with Windows in a machine only an…
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