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Posted in Media Center, Technology on Nov 27th, 2007
Recently, I foolishly decided to update my media center pc to vista. The good news is that it works well now, the bad news is it took me a while to get there. I stared off by upgrading my original media center pc to vista. It was not officially supported by dell, however the vista […]
Posted in Media Center, Technology on Apr 14th, 2007
One of Microsoft’s biggest mistakes with the Zune was they did not include functionality to sync tv shows recorded on media center to the zune. After a few searches on the internet, I have found a way to sync the files to a zune from within the zune software. There are quite a […]
Posted in Media Center on Nov 28th, 2006
Recently, I have started looking for way to capture HDTV from my satellite system to my media center pc. Unfortunately, after much googling I have been unable to find any solution which will work with a media center pc.
Options I have looked at so far
Tuner card which can be directly connected to the dish. […]
Posted in Media Center on Nov 15th, 2006
Recently I have started to burn some recorded tv shows to dvd using Nero. Most people can use the Sonic plugin which optionally comes with media center to accomplish this task. However, my media center pc which is sitting in the basement does not have a dvd burner.
My technique for burning tv shows to disk […]
Posted in Media Center on Oct 24th, 2006
When at parties, Kristin likes to advertise the fact that I have 3 xboxes. I figure since people usually say “What the hell” or words to that effect, I would explain it here, so hopefully I don’t have to do it again.
In my basement sits a windows media center pc, which faithfully records all the […]