Wandering around our local Dick Smith’s at lunchtime today, the posse spotted a dark new disturbance in the LCD TV market. The new vendor was Trio, the model the TTH-32L. Dickie’s doing a bunch of Trio products: the 82CM/32L is $1800 (ish), their 42″ Plasma is $1900, and the smaller LCD TV (26 or 27 [...]

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Taking a quick break from the MCE series while I sort out some hopefully minor niggles with IceGuide – this was originally written two months ago, but mysteriously unpublished… The title might be a little misleading, as this isn’t really a comparison, but a tale of some of the worst and best customer experiences I’ve [...]

Why not make a series? Excellent idea, thanks, don’t mind if I do. After the rather wordy but well-meaning intro to building the MCE, I figured I’d look at some of the EPG options that are available. EPGRunner seems to have suddenly decided that tonight would be a No Data Available night, so it seems [...]

I had a post ready to go yesterday called “The Fuss Over RSS”. I deleted it without publishing, because I just couldn’t imagine it going any further than a couple of days. Boy, was I wrong there. Scoble’s still tracking fallout. Gillmor’s smoked some of Winer’s weed, thinking like a sneaky businessperson. Been reading Andy [...]

I built a Media Centre PC earlier this year, so thought I’d share the experience. I know the Yanks call it Media Center, but I’m Australian, so please excuse my automatic “re”. I write stream-of-coffee style (like stream of consciousness but more haphazard), so here’s a convenient ordered set of items to keep in mind [...]