At CES we spoke with the DLNA alliance and they were very keen on the fact that they were now certifying software players as well as hardware. CyberLink have just…

With the possible breech at LastPass and the Sony debacle this has been a very bad few weeks for the cloud. As one very senior IT manager said to me…

Virgin Media recently replaced my V+ box  with their new Virgin Media TiVo box. Let’s get this out the way first. This in no way replaces my Media Center. It…

DVBLogic have today released an update to the very popular DVBLink TVSource application. This is primarily a bug-fix release with some additional support for extra transponders and tuners.   From…

CyberLink today launched a new and improved version of PowerDVD. PowerDVD 11 has a host of new features and having played with a pre-release version I can say that the…

Simple.tv announced yesterday the reopening of their Media Center to iOS device streaming and transcoding application. Actually to call it just that is a bit of injustice. Amongst other thing…

Another day another DVBLink beta. This time its for the IPTV sibling. The nice new feature in this release is support for RTSP based IP cameras. As some of you…

We’ve spoken a lot about SSD drives on the show recently. One thing I highly recommend with modern SSD drives and Windows 7 (or even Vista) is enabling AHCI in…

I spotted on twitter that @Vinylfreak had posted a video of his MyMovies 3 and Arcsoft Total Media Theater 5 set up.    This is a really comprehensive walkthrough of…

I’m often asked to help fix people’s Media Centers. I recently had a real challenge where an HTPC based on Aopen’s Mini PC platform had appeared to become unreliable. Basically…