Turning It Up to 11!
Posted by Jay Taylor at 7:11 pm
Loading ...Getting More Out of Your Maui System.
Previously, I wrote a blog on What AMD offers the HTPC customer. It covered the MSI Media Live Diva platform (MSI 7411), which is produced in accordance with the AMD HTPC motherboard specification that we affectionately call “Maui.” I discussed the audio and video capabilities of the platform and some …
Getting Ready to Flick on the Switch
Posted by Shane Parfitt at 2:41 pm
(7 votes, average: 4.71 out of 5)TV watchers in the U.S. are facing the “big switch“-the day when full-power television stations stop analog broadcasts and move to 100% digital broadcasts. After June 12, 2009, a television receiver with only an analog broadcast tuner will no longer receive over-the-air broadcasts originating from the US with an antenna because of the US transition …
Read MoreDu Yu Hulu?
Posted by Jay Taylor at 11:52 am
Note worthy News on Hulu, YouTube and Netflix
By now you may have already heard some of the exciting news for the HTPC space over the last few weeks. However, in case you had not, let’s spend a little time talking about it here.
Last week Hulu announced a desktop application that allows you to use a …
Who Ya Gonna Call?
Posted by Jay Taylor at 3:18 pm
What do you do when you need a helping hand?
My first job at AMD was as a Support Engineer helping customers with our networking products. Back then, I was dealing primarily with engineers at companies like Cisco, Netgear, and even the federal government that used AMD’s networking chips at the time. After a while, I took on …
Simplifying Video Conversion With The ATI Video Converter In Catalyst 9.5
Posted by Simon Solotko at 11:04 am
(8 votes, average: 3.25 out of 5)“The ultimate dilemma for entertainment will be the decision whether or not to directly implant the entertainment into the neuro-biological path. The step preceding will bring entertainment directly to the sensory interface, on the eyes, in the ears, and on our skin. The experience will be multi-layered. I will be able to modify my experiences …
Read MoreTakin’ it to the streets (or the webcast in this case)!
Posted by Jay Taylor at 10:58 am
Home Theater PC 101
Depending on when you read this, I will either be preparing for, in the middle of or finished with a Webcast about getting started with a Home Theater PC (HTPC) today. If it’s the first two, you can join it in action now. And if you weren’t able to make it, I …
Webcast on the HTPC
Posted by Jay Taylor at 3:07 pm
Join AMD for an interactive webcast about HTPCs
You’re invited to join AMD for a webcast on Wednesday May 27 about the increasingly popular Home Theater PC (HTPC) platform, and how to achieve feature-rich television content directly on your home PCs. I will be discussing many of the issues covered in this blog, and there is …
Are You Ready to Cut the Cord?
Posted by Jay Taylor at 11:01 am
10 Steps to a cord free lifestyle!
In an earlier writing I shared my family’s experience with cutting the cord. Overall, things are still going smoothly for us. I have been asked several times how we did it, so I thought I would provide more details on our transition.
I realize that cutting the cord for an HTPC may not be …
Our Memories Close at Hand with AMD Fusion Media Explorer
Posted by Simon Solotko at 11:24 am
“The citizens of my day live with their place in history always in mind, and always at hand. Their memories and those of their ancestors are recorded in amazing detail and their interconnections have been mined to show the interwoven personal histories of all of human kind. In retrospect, “recorded history” began with records in …
Read MoreIntroducing the HP DV2, my new Mobile Media Center
Posted by Casey Gotcher at 3:11 pm
One of the things that has become very apparent to me over the last year is that my TV viewing habits have completely changed. In the past, I would either watch TV shows live or DVR them and watch them later that same day or night. Lately I have found that my wife and I …
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