This is for anyone wondering if they should be buying a Wireless N router that is 2.4 GHz only or if buying one on the Dual Band (2.4 GHz and 5.0 GHz) routers is worth the extra cost.Before the Dual Band routers became easily available, I purchased a Linksys WRT330N.  It worked great for me, until recently.  The way I have my network ...

Hi all, I wanted to see if anyone had any good ideas on how to fix an issue I am having.  I have a Windows Vista Ultimate machine and a XBox 360.  My machine had to be blown away and have Vista reinstalled so I could get SP1 installed on the machine.  After the reinstall of Vista and the install of SP1, my network performance ...

Hello again everyone.  Today we are going to take a look at the Windows Media Center SideShow Gadget Beta that Ian blogged about a few days ago, and he even mentioned on his latest Podcast #164.To start off with, the mobile device that I used is the Motorola Q9M, which is running Windows Mobile 6.0.The install was very easy to go through, but ...

I noticed a few people complaining about corrupt recordings.xml files recently, I've been hurt by having this file corrupt on me before so I know the pain (in fact in my case both the recordings.xml and the .bak in the same folder both got crushed). So backing it up is probably a good idea. There are many ways of doing this, but I wanted a nice ...

ATI have finally released a new firmware for the TV Wonder Digital Cable Tuner aka OCUR box, this is the OCUR box which is pretty much shipping with all OCUR media center setup's right now, including the XPS420. Note the firmware update is only for 32bit Vista  The firmware update specifically deals with the following issues: Multiple ...

Hey cw-kid, the chances are its the audio as Ian said, however FIRST you should see if Virgin are setting the copy protection bit on that specific channel, this is a per channel setting and is not the same copy protection as OCUR content as you may hear about from the US. It is possible they are using it in the UK which restricts playback of these ...

Hi Adam, I actually replied to your email before I got to respond to this, so here is a shortened version of my reply to you so other people can see it :) Ok so reading through your post, I think I should make you aware of something with PC's, Tivo v3's and other devices which are connected to cable connections intending to playback non (QAM256 ...

 A few things real quick:  1.  I know this does not follow suit with my first post but I am just starting to get into the grove here and my posting account would not work with Windows Live Writer... It seems that i am not getting something right 2.  That this is related to Marine and Aviation as blue tooth is a rage on ...

This weekend I went to the Algarve, but it was a cloudy Saturday (and I had a bit of an hangover from Friday night), so I stayed indoors, playing with MediaRoom and I found something annoying. I was watching Maid in Manhattan (I know it's a girl's movie, but I think  J. lo is hot, so... ) and I was recording some other movie at the same ...

Thanks Ian, what about the second part of the post, what's your opinion on that? Don't you think MediaRoom providers should have an easy way to export their video renting services to Media Center? Think about it, they've already made the investment, but there are too many people that can't get IPTV, tough there's a lot that can get free digital ...