Anyone Seen the Remote? (Part 1 on Controlling your HTPC)
Posted by Jay Taylor at 10:28 AM
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Loading ...Lean Back Technology for your HTPC!
So, you’ve got this fancy new HTPC, but how do you use it? Well, I thought we would take a look at the various options for controlling your HTPC. I am splitting this post into a two part series covering both keyboard and mice solutions in the first post while [...]
The Home Central Computer | A Hypothetical Inteview
Posted by Simon Solotko at 9:56 PM
(9 votes, average: 3.89 out of 5)When a personal computer comes to exceed the capacity required by a single person, machines will “seek” new ways to spend their leisure time. And leisure time is not to be underestimated as either a cultural or an evolutionary force. The first is to take on more complex tasks enabling a new kind of user experience. The second is to serve many persons at once. The third is for machines to idly dream of the day when they will divine their own purpose…
Read MoreDigital Nexus | An Evolution
Posted by Simon Solotko at 1:39 PM
There are two “personal” computing devices whose evolution is taking place as you sip coffee. The first is the decentralized personal assistant which holds and guards our personal experiences and our connections to society. We will carry it close to our bodies and employ it as a second mind and as a primary interface to [...]
Read MoreGordian Knot 2.0 | A Prequel
Posted by Simon Solotko at 4:32 PM
There was fair warning. That increasingly capable yet complex technology would form the Gordian knot of your age. The ancient legend reminds us that a knot too complex cannot be untied, it must be felled with a single, original stroke. In the first segment in a mulit-part series we explore solutions which can be experienced by anyone, with greater ease than today’s cacophony of complex, independent devices which have formed a “digital knot.”
Read MoreTurning It Up to 11!
Posted by Jay Taylor at 7:11 PM
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
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
“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 [...]