Tags: diy
Tags: diy
Convert your DVR-MS MCE recordings to Xvid, x264 and MPEG-4
Posted Tuesday January 30, 2007, 4:00 am, Over one day old at PVR Wire
Filed under: News, Software, Microsoft, Media Center Edition, DIY DVR-MS is a proprietary Microsoft format that is used in Media Center Edition to record videos.
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Xbox 360 Hack - Get a bigger hard drive but no extra space
Posted Saturday January 27, 2007, 3:37 pm, Over one day old at PVR Wire
Although you can't use the space of the larger hard drives it will allow you to save money by not buying the $100 Xbox 360 hard drive and getting a cheaper Western Digital 40GB hard drive for $60.
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Beyond TV Skins - Customize the look of Beyond TV with themes
Posted Thursday January 25, 2007, 2:22 am, Over one day old at PVR Wire
Filed under: General, Hacks, News, Software, Tips, Beyond TV, DIY, Downloads Everyone likes to customize their PC with some pictures and themes, if its not a picture of some hot girl or a desert island on your desktop, it's a load of fishes swimming around on your screensaver.
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DirecTiVo Owners Reboot Now!
Posted Wednesday January 24, 2007, 5:26 am, Over one day old at PVR Wire
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Record TV from your cable box to your PC, even in HD
Posted Wednesday January 24, 2007, 5:25 am, Over one day old at PVR Wire
Filed under: Cable TV, Hacks, HDTV, Tips, DIY If you want to record television shows directly onto your PC from cable it is possible for a number of channels. Unfortunately it's not as simple as connecting your PC and Cable Box with a firewire cable ( pictured right ) and starting to record.
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Crazy HTPC case shows off your hard drive
Posted Monday January 22, 2007, 4:15 am, Over one day old at PVR Wire
High-end home theater PC case makers Silverstone has decided to do away with that whole putting an LCD in the front of an HTPC case trend, and instead put a little window for you to watch your hard drive spin.
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Another PVR-building tutorial
Posted Monday January 22, 2007, 4:15 am, Over one day old at PVR Wire
But the voyeur in me just can't get enough of these tutorials, because I love seeing how other folks' home-built PVRs stack up against mine. Yes, it's true that you can build a home theater PC to handle standard definition content for just a few hundred dollars.
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Review of the WinTV-PVR-500 tuner card
Posted Monday January 22, 2007, 4:15 am, Over one day old at PVR Wire
With that in mind, one the easiest fixes to this problem is to put a dual tuner card into your system right from the get go. Once you read the review you can decide for yourself whether the cost of the card (about $170) is worth it for the quality and ease of use of a single tuner card.
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Kraftskine: DIY Moleskine Cahier
Posted Tuesday December 26, 2006, 9:13 am, Over one day old at The Glass is Too Big
The result is a little 3"x5" DIY Moleskine covered in a brown kraftpaper that I'm calling a "Kraftskine". This one is a prototype and I'm going to do some things different the next time, but it's pretty simple to put together. | | I took 25 notecards as the base size.
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A 'Don't List' for your home theater
Posted Monday September 18, 2006, 8:45 am, Over one day old at Wired@Home.blog
There's lots of do's and don't lists for everything in life...Here's one for your home theater and it makes sense!| |[via HDBeat|]Technorati Tags: diy, home theater| |
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