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    Do any DVD players play movies from a thumb drive?

    If you are still looking for a DVD player, Best Buy has these: Philips - DVD Player with HD Upconversion Model: DVP3680/F7 I had one of these 5 or 6 years ago and it played AVI's off a thumb drive just fine. The specs on the best buy site says this does too: USB Media Link for media...
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    Windows 8 Pro HTPC Server with extenders

    Since you are waiting anyway, you may want to keep any eye on the Ceton Echo extender as well. Ceton is doing some interesting stuff these days. http://cetoncorp.com/products/echo/
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    Top MKV players

    You might want to give Zoomplayer a try. I still use it on my bedroom HTPC and it does as good a job as any other video player. My favorite feature is that I can open a folder and it will automatically play every file in the folder in order. It also has pretty good out of the box support for...
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    best web browser for HTPC

    np. A couple of details I left out: QuickPageZoom only works up to Firefox version 3.6, which is what I still use in my setup. If you want to use Firefox 4.0 or higher you can try Page Zoom 2.3 by DW dev. I use it on my laptop and it seems to do the same thing. The actual name of the...
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    best web browser for HTPC

    I do 90% of my browsing on my 40" Sony and Firefox is easily the best. I do 3 main things to make everything extremely readable: 1. Change the Windows DPI to 150% by right clicking the desktop and choosing Personalize then the Display link at the bottom. 2. Install the Quick Page Zoom...
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    Media Center removed in latest Windows 8 build :/

    I saw that 6% figure thrown all over twitter and the blogs today, but they all conveniently left out the first part of that quote from Sinofsky: I don't know about anyone else, but anytime a company asks me if they can collect data/feedback about anything happening on my PC, I always click...
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    Different remote on Hauppauge tuners

    Here's a cheap little WMC remote that can control the mouse/cursor. I bookmarked the link a while ago after seeing a few different people recommend it, but never got around to ordering myself...
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    Looking For HTPC Recommendations

    The single best decision I ever made regarding my HTPC was to skip Blu Ray playback altogether and go with a stand alone BD player. Not only are they a hassle free way of watching your Blu Ray discs, but they also now almost always come bundled with internet ready apps for Netflix, Hulu Plus...
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    codecs for w7 htpc?

    MKV is a container format. To play MKV's on Windows, you need to install a Matroska splitter that will break up the audio and video into something Windows understands. Most people use either Haali, Gabest or DIVX Labs splitters. Every popular codec pack out there will include one of these 3...
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    2011 - Best HTPC Software for WMC/MCE

    Here's the thread discussing the problem and the various fixes for it. http://www.pcmediacenter.com.au/forum/topic/41342-windows7-mcs-can-no-longer-customize-menu-after-mce-runs-updates/ Basically anytime MS updates MC, it resets the shell to its' default format. Go to the last page of...
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    HD Homerun Price @ Amazon, Pre-Order

    While Comcast does not charge you for the card itself, it's not exactly free either. Comcast considers cablecards to be "HD addressable converters", exactly the same as an HD STB or HD DVR. As a result, they hit you with a monthly "HD Technology Fee". In my case, they charged me $9.25 a month...
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    HD Homerun Price @ Amazon, Pre-Order

    Engadget says 30 days after CableLab certification, so that would make it end of May/Early June. http://www.engadget.com/2011/05/02/hdhomerun-prime-tv-tuner-passes-cablelabs-tests-available-for-p/
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    Cutting the cable cord...how?

    I cut the cable 2 months ago and really don't miss it. My hardware is remarkably similar to yours. I have a 40" Sony Bravia 1080 LCD and an Ooma Telo. The main reason I was able to cut the cord is my 2 year old Sony BDP-460 Networked Blu Ray. It does Amazon VOD, Hulu+ and Netflix. It also does...
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    Mediabrowser Sucks

    Since he is getting metadata for his TV and Cartoons but not Movies, it seems more likely that the recent TMDB outage is to blame. The first option for troubleshooting this problem should be to clear the cache and start over from scratch. The easiest way to clear the cache is to find the...
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    Mediabrowser Sucks

    No, there is no setting. When you let MB handle the metadata, everything is stored in the cache. There is no way to transfer metadata from the cache to the local source folders. If you want to store the metadata locally, you must use a third party app. Media Center Master is not the only...
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