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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...

Yeah, the nforce4 chipset had some issues when using the nvidia firewall program. Disabling/removing the firewall altogether should work, but you could also dig around in the driver settings control panel and try tio disable tcp offloading. Or use the marvell NIC, or a $10 pci one.

You probably should have tried the BTV demo before plunking down the cash. Sory you spent so much and don't like it. I've no idea what your problems are, BTV just works for most of us. If all you wnted was a video-input window, check out dscaler.

The receiver that comes with the MS Remote can act kinda like one, but that's almost defeating the point.

Locally, maybe microcenter or pcclub if you have one nearby, but even they probably won't have it. You could put a wanted ad on craigslist and see if you get any takers. Ebay is probably the best bet.

The opteron will be ok, even at stock speeds. My 3000+ struggles with 1080p, even when oc'd to 2.1ghz, but my opty handles the same files just fine (either @ stock or 2.4ghz.) 2.8ghz will be more than enough. Playback can also depend on how the HDDVDs are encoded - they can be either mpeg2...

Getting a usb-uirt and then girder or HiP should let you use pretty much any remote you want. (It does in XP, don't know how those programs work with vista though.) You could also use those programs with the firefly or remote wonder to avoid the 360 issue. insta-edit and shamepless plug -...

I went for all on one drive. Most HTPC usage is very light on program/operating system access so it doesn't really need to be on a dedicated drive. You're not trying to shave milliseconds off the load time of a 500MB game map here, most htpc front-ends should fit into memory and then require...

I think that those two tuner cards are 'software enocders' which rely on the cpu to do a lot of work. The best software that should work with them is BeyondTV. The distortion is because you're taking a 4:3 input and displaying it on a 16:9 monitor. BeyondTV lets you either have black borders...

I was just at OD tonight getting the panasonic cordless phone for $50 AR. If I'd known about this I'd have snagged one. Maybe I'll take another trip out tomorrow. $100 rebate is a bit big, but even after tax it's $0.24/gb which is good for an external drive.

Office 2003 lets you install it on your main machine and then a portable. From the very first paragraph of the eula "1.1 Installation and use. You may: (a) install and use a copy of the Software on one personal computer or other device; and (b) install an additional copy of the Software...

If you've not bought the one from bb yet, compusa has a 32" Olevia for $530

I think that there's a version of nandub or vdubmod that could handle wmv input, and then you'd have to find an mpeg2 encoder which will probably mean buying one. That should let you queue the files up before starting encoding. That's about the only freeware I can think of. Adobe prmiere...

I'm pretty sure that apple has one, and wasn't HP or someone else just about to launch another one? Don't know what kind of inputs the other monitors have though.

The price is at $80 for the retail version, but newegg will sell an 'open box' one for $14 + shipping. If you wait a couple of days, it might get bumped to free shipping. I got an open box Freezer 64 Pro a couple of weeks ago for $12 w/ free shipping, it hadn't been used but had a couple of...

That's where I got mine. I think it was 3M wet/dry stuff. They also had a 'variety pack' with three sheets of various grit, rather than 3 sheets of one grit.

This is a huge ymmv, but you might be able to buy a refurb platinum for $161 + shipping and then get the $100 MIR. All the refurbs I've bought from the egg have been in the full box with upc, though the invoice normally shows them as open box or oem. Don't have adobe installed on this machine to...

You should be able to add your own pretty easily. The [H] Review says "S/PDIF headers are located along the left edge of the board..." so you should be able to easily make your own coax out by hacking up a couple of old header connector and cables, or buying something like this. Wrong and...

Using GCO, the non-Fatal1ty would be $55 and no rebate, which isn't bad for an x-fi. The Fatal1ty does have x-ram though which might be important. Am I right in thing the XtremeGamer Fatal1ty Pro doesn't have the front panel though?

Are you using an rf signal from your cable box (channel 3) or an s-vid connection? rf will look crap, but svid should look pretty good. Also, were you getting hdtv from your cable box to the tv? If so, you're only getting a regular-old SD picture from your htpc which obviously won't look as good.

Same here, cake boxes, cd spindles, whatever you want to call them. Got a couple of the 100-disc ones almost filled. I use no-cd patches or mini-images for most games just so that I can keep the originals in a drawer somewhere. CD-keys are kept in a txt file on my desktop.

Don't know that specific card, but older tv tuners generally required an audio cable to run from the card to line-in on the soundcard (or onboard audio.) A 3.5mm male-to-male cable is normally what it was.

From the model number, it's a maxline 3 series. Not sure if it's quieter, but you could maybe find a review to tell you, or check spcr.com. afaik samsung make the quietest drives.

It's also on costco.com for $240, and it's the upgrade version. Linky

are you sure about that? I though the 320gb maxtors were actually rebadged Seagate 7200.10. At least the one I got from outpost in december was.

5.5 is pretty much ancient. I'm guessing it's oem software as well (it came with a drive). Try downloading either nero 6 or 7 trial version and then come back and let us know how it worked.