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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...

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/

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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/

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...

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...

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...

The best bang for your buck TVs out there right now are the 46-50 inch 720p plasmas from Samsung, LG and Panasonic. All of them are quality TVs and available for less than $800. My 75 year old Mom has a 50" 720p Panasonic and is very happy with it. It handles all of the content from her Comcast...

I personally think that Damian over at mediasmartserver.net does a better job explaining how to setup MB than the MB site. http://www.mediasmartserver.net/2010/11/03/walkthrough-media-browser-2-2-9-orion/

Cablecards are able to decrypt your cable signal and tune into all of the channels that you subscribe to. All other forms of tuners are only able to tune into channels that your cable company chooses to broadcast without encryption. Usually these channels are limited to your local channels and...

I am very pleased with my year old Sony N460. It has Netflix, Amazon, YouTube, Slacker and Pandora. There are a bunch of other services as well. They also just added a placeholder for Hulu Plus that says it is coming in Fall 2010. Walmart has them listed online for $138, but I have seen them...

I realize this post is almost 2 months old, but since this thread is a sticky and considered a reference guide, I thought I should correct it anyway. The 2250 is a dual tuner card, period. The maximum number of channels(SD or HD) that you can record at any one time is 2. The reason people get...

I installed it before I even setup MC, so you're right, it probably isn't necessary, but it doesn't hurt anything either. I just use it now out of habit and superstition :)

I have a couple of HTPCs that I use regularly. Both are running Win7 x64. I use them exclusively for running Media Browser and playing .MKVs, with a few AVI and TS files thrown in occasionally. I do not do any Blu Ray on them now, I still use a standalone Sony player for that. I don't currently...

I've tried to make the switch from FF to Chrome several times. I understand that Chrome is leaner, meaner, faster and more secure than FF. Unfortunately, I am just too set in my ways, and I just cannot get used to the tabs all the way at the top. It is always the deal breaker that forces me to...

http://community.mediabrowser.tv/permalinks/2834/metadata-not-retrieved-since-2-2-4

I remember reading a review of this on Endgadget or Gizmodo when it was first announced. It sounded great from the specs, but they also had a YouTube demo linked to the article and it made it seem extremely awkward to use. That soured me from pursuing it any further. You may want to do some...

I just downloaded and installed makemkv on a machine that I have never run makemkv on before. Everything installed fine. It is probably just an out of date beta version that is giving you problems. During the beta the activation keys are only good for 30 days. When the keys expire, they...

You might get better advice if you picked a format and stuck with it. In your OP, you said there was no season field available: Two posts later, you suddenly had the season included: So which is it? If the format is "Lost LAX 01", Media Center Master can handle that but you have to...

Media Center Master might be able to help you out. I only used it for a very brief time, but it seemed highly configurable. The developer, Pete, is extremely active on the forums and seems like a great guy. http://www.mediacentermaster.com/

It says coming in Q2 on that freakin' ad that's been up at the top of the endgadgethd page everyday for the past 2 months...

The 2250 and HDhomerun are both fine products, but there is no way I would ever spend over $100 for any QAM tuner now. The cable market is just too unpredictable. Even if you are getting over 80 QAM channels in the clear today(as I am), they could all be gone tomorrow if your cable company turns...

Media center Studio should do the trick. It will let you add an entry point for any executable. It seems like IE and Chrome work fine, but FF has glitches. I'm sure all the info you need is in their forums. http://www.xpmediacentre.com.au/community/forums/56-Media-Center-Studio

The only program I know of that can handles TV series by Disc is MediaCenterMaster. I don't rip my discs like that, so I haven't tried MCM, but Metabrowser and MediaScout will definitely not be able to deal with Discs. http://www.mediacentermaster.com/...

Depending on the metabrowser version you are using, there should be a Process All Movies or Process All TV link listed above the Fetch Data button. Right clicking on any title in the left hand pane will also give you a Process button for that item.

I still use MediaScout for my initial metadata fetching and episode renaming. If I don't like the default artwork it finds, I switch to metabrowser to tweak it. The combination of the 2 currently handles everything I need to do. Mediascout isn't updated anymore, but still works great. I prefer...

Looks like the first pre-orders are up: http://hd.engadget.com/2010/03/13/cetons-quad-cablecard-tuner-for-media-center-available-for-pre/ http://www.zones.com/site/product/index.html?id=003201915

If you're lazy like me, you won't find anything easier than MakeMKV. Simple, fast and hassle free. There's no charge now while it is in beta and you don't need an AnyDVD license.

Isn't this more what you are looking for? http://www.kvmstuff.com/hdmi-distribution-amplifier-1x2-mini-splitter-full-hd-1080p-v1-3.html

Avira was getting them all the time too. It's the main reason I switched to Security Essentials. Not a single false positive so far. If I recall correctly, it was the individual episode images in TV that were causing me all the problems. I searched all over the TVDB forums and all of the...

I think Jon from htpc.net had an auto-mount plugin for MC. I don't recall if it was for Vista or Win 7. Either way, it should be an easy google search.

I really like the Media Browser guides that Damian has been writing lately. Simple, concise and detailed. The latest one seems to be exactly what you are looking for: http://www.mediasmartserver.net/2010/01/29/guide-using-mpc-hc-as-your-video-player-in-wmc-media-browser/