What do we buy the birthday boy who has a no-media policy?
That’s what Phil asked me before my birthday last month. He was referring to the fact that I have no CDs, no DVDs no optical media of any description cluttering my living room. All our TV and movies are stored on a variety of…
My 1080p HTPC: Movie and TV management
By Howard | Published July 14th, 2008My 1080p HTPC: Freesat with Vista
By Howard | Published July 13th, 2008Having ditched Freeview for signal quality reasons, it’s time to talk about getting the satellite cards to work under Vista Media Centre – something that until MS release the “Fuji” update is not as trivial as you’d think! Vista’s tuning architecture doesn’t understand DVB-S (or -S2), so can’t natively tune satellite cards, so we need…
My 1080p HTPC: Multiple Freeview Tuners
By Howard | Published July 12th, 2008When I originally built my HTPC, I used 2 Freeview cards. Each Hauppauge WinTV-NOVA-T500 has two Freeview tuners in one PCI card. By installing two of these (and with some registry tweaking) it is possible to build a device that can record/watch 4 Freeview channels at once.
Out of the box the Vista Media Centre GUI…
My 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…
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