WinDVD 7, on Windows XP Media Center Edition 2005. Update Rollup 2 is applied, but everything applies pre-UR2 anyway. Using Australian Free-To-Air Digital TV via an Avermedia A16A. The Good Good de-interlacing, better than PureVideo Excellent image quality Supports HD without any noticeable problems so far Doesn’t stress the CPU too much (Radeon 9550 @ [...]

I know, I whined about the frame rate in store. Funny, isn’t it? Yep, I bought a BRAVIA V-Series 32-incher. Baseline: very happy with it. The 32 inch model is a perfect size replacement for the 68cm 4:3 TV with side speakers – it fits snugly into the same area, but provides a much wider [...]

Looks like the cheap (sub-$AUD200) and easy option to get dual-band wireless in your home is here – here’s the Netgear site link, from which the following marketingspeak has been liberated: The NETGEAR Double 108 Mbps Wireless Firewall Router (WGU624) delivers two simultaneous 108 Mbps networks to ensure the highest speeds and the best quality [...]

So you’ve got your Media Centre PC with Update Rollup 2 installed, and you’re looking at setting up a network that might include a Media Center Extender (MCX) or XBox 360 (which works as an MCX). (sexy website). I’m a whore for a good gigabit switch and some UTP (that’s a wired network, kids), but [...]

News afoot on the MCE EPG front: Looks like Channel 9 were the first to blink, and obfuscated their TV Guide data. Bad news for the screen scraper crowd, for now, though it’s just a temporary setback – the actual information still ends up at the client, it’s just harder to get to. I’m sure [...]

I am currently setting up a new Windows Media Center 2005 HTPC and just tried to watch a French movie, which I have ripped to DivX. I do not speak French, and so I would like to have English subtitles so that I may understand the plot. When I ripped the movie, I also created [...]