Recent content by IanG

Have you allowed the connection from wmp11 on the pc? (Not sure if that's on the MS guide) Also, are you going in to the media center section, or going through music in the 360 dashboard - you should be going through music or video, not media center.

I don't think that any directtv boxes have a firewire output. Cable boxes were supposedly mandated by the FCC to include it (though not all of them did) but there was no compulsion on satellite providers so I don't think they bothered. Anyway, I think you need a specific motorola box, and a...

I think I remember something about running meedio the way you described. If my memory works right, you can have th elibrary files on a shared drive, and as long as you have all you media on mapped drives (with the same drive letters on each machine) you're good to go. I think that this only...

Yeah, the sonic mine things in the asteroid field are amazing. One of the best sounds I've heard in a theater, but I think they changed it slightly for the dvd. Saving Private Ryan (beach landing, and the tank approaching the village) and Matrix (lobby scene, plus 'morpheus is fighting neo')...

The chip can handle the standards, but the cards and tuners are specific to whichever region it's sold in. A card made for the US market will have NTSC and ATSC tuners, which aren't much use to europeans unless they have a gigantic antenna ;) If there is a euro version of the card it'd have a...

1) i heaven't heard of any problems 2) The card won't be any use in the UK. The US uses ntsc for SD, which is different to the PAL used in europe. The HD tuner will be ATSC, but you'll need a dvb-T/S card in europe. 3) There's no pro card, they're all the same. Bottom line, don't even...

4) get a HD Homerun and Sage or the latest BeyondTV Beta. It won't tune the premium channels, but should work for everything else.

Besides the drive door, I think that the hddvd drive has a non-standard connector. It's sata based, but is smaller than normal and includes the power connector. I can't find any pictures right now though. It might be laptop sata spec, not really sure. I guess you could keep the usb board...

I'm guessing that a housecall scan over at trend micro will probably fix your problem. I'd recommend you get avg free version (or pay for trend, norton, mcafee whatever) as well.

Maybe even hotter... newegg open box version for $116 Might come with the cables and cds, or might not. If you're only going to be using it for dvi then you can't really go wrong. Same $6 shipping as the new version.

HiP should do the trick. It can even learn codes from your existing remote to send out, without you having to find a code on a website. Girder would be another option, but in my experience was a big headache to get set up, and also isn't free.

Most laptops should already have a worldwide power adapter. It'll say something like 100-250V 60-60Hz. Some of the cheaper ones might not, but most of the 'business class' ones do.

bestbuy have an HP dv9235nr for $1500 + taxes. SKU is 8223282. They show they have some in the West LA store, maybe others (you can search for yourself at bestbuy.com.)Specs are C2D T5200, 2gb PC4200, 160gb HD, 17" screen, Nvidia 7600Go so looks reasonable. There might be better machines out...

That's a pretty good final price, but it's a massive rebate. I personally don't like to go > 50% of the price for rebates any more, but if you don't mind the risk, it's a good price. Tax might hurt some people though. TD used to be awful with rebates a few years ago, but from what I hear have...

I don't think you'll find a display with 1080p res in that price range. The 24" dell is 1920xsomething resolution, and starts about $600 on a good day, and that's one of the cheapest. The 22" and 24" models you're looking at are probably 1650x10xx resolution, so would have to rescale 1080p...