While I am waiting for the equipment to come in for my new media center installation, I thought I would share with you a diagram of the network I plan on having installed when I get this completed.  I am sure that the MCSEs and other engineers of the world out there will no doubt […]

CEPro's latest newsletter has posted the presentations and technical guides that were given at this year's Spring Electronic House Expo.  There is some good stuff here, including how to do a whole house integration of your media center.  Check them out this link:
http://www.cepro.com/article/media_center_university_integrate_optimize_and_manage_mce?utm_source=CEPWeekly&utm_medium=email
And I haven't forgotten about the media center installation contest.  I am waiting […]

Well kids, I have been sitting on the sidelines for a while with the Windows Home Server, and I am still a little concerned about the data corruption issues they are trying to fix, but I have faith they will get it taken care of.  Plus, I just could not sit by and watch others […]

If your head is swimming (like mine) about all of the options for building out your home media center and how all of the parts would/could/should fit together, check out UltimatePC.com.  This is a beta site launched by Microsoft and it has some pretty cool ideas (check out the blueprints section).
Pretty cool stuff!

There is yet another alternative to that clunky DVD (it's so 2007) being queued up …
I just posted an article about how you can download movies directly to your computer from your Netflix account, and I think that is going to be the future.  I am not caught up in the hype over Blu-Ray, […]

I realize I may be putting the cart before the horse here.  After all, I could spend two to three blogs specifically talking about how cool I believe the new Netflix Watchnow feature is.  First they break the mold with their revolutionary model for DVD rentals - a model which has all of the other […]

This is a little off topic for a "How-To" site, I realize, but the Ce Pro newsletter just came out with a slide show of the biggest TVs ever made for consumers (big =  >100″).  You can find it here:
http://www.cepro.com/slideshow/image/2076/
Start your salivary glands!

That's right.  After you set up your Vista Media Center, you have the ability to view your local TV listings, set up a recording and stream media from your Media Center PC, from anywhere you can connect to the internet (even your Windows Mobile Phone).  The ability to watch media from your PC (Television) from […]

OK - if I were to answer this question, I would say "heck yeah!".  Well maybe not heck. 
But I know a lot of folks don't know what Vista Media Center is yet, and even more who know, but can't imagine it has a place in their household.  Then there are the "tech-curious" who love […]

I'm in the middle of writing my first post around getting started (or evaluating) Vista Media Center when I see this post on CNET regarding the consolidation of Microsoft's 3 key divisions in this area:  IPTV, Media Center and HD DVD.  So I had to post a short note about it. 
It's definitely not the […]