How to Turn Your Vista or XP Media Center PC into a DVD Jukebox - Want to get your DVDs organized and saved on your big, new external hard drive in Media Center? "My Movies" in Media Center can give you that capability, and it's free. Here we look at ways to burn DVDs to the hard drive and integrate them for viewing in Windows Media Center or on the TV.
How to Use the Front Panel Inputs on an HP Media Center PC for Analog Recording - It's a myth that HP Media Center PCs running Vista don't support copying analog video and audio signals from the front-panel inputs. Hauppauge "WinTV" tuner cards have long supported analog capture and encoding from an analog source to a digital (MPEG) output. Here we show you how it works.
Bright Hub Review of Tunebite Platinum 6.0 - Have protected content in the form of iTunes tracks or videos or copy protected Windows Media content that you want to play back on your various devices? Without altering the original files or removing DRM, Tunebite 6.0 allows you to convert your purchased content to play on your other devices.
Bright Hub Review of Replay Video Capture by Applian Technologies - Need to capture a part of your PC screen for a business presentation? Need to capture streaming video playing in your web browser? Want to document an application's capabilities with voice notes while you interact with it? Replay Video Capture can do all of this - and more - simply and easily.
Windows XP vs. Vista - A Tale of Three Media Center PCs and Three Notebooks - This article tells the story of a Linux user confronted with the need to learn to support Windows AND a need for a new television. Why not, he thought, combine the two and get a Windows Media Center PC that could show and record television content? Thus began a journey that continues to this day.
How to Fix Crippled Stereo Mix on Your Vista Laptop - Have a nice new Vista laptop? Did the laptop manufacturer leave out the "stereo mix" feature to prevent you from recording nasty old big content's copyrighted music? Did it also BREAK your karaoke and legitimate usages of stereo mix? Here we look at using Virtual Audio Cable to get stereo mix back.
Flycast Desktop for Windows - Best known as an application for smart phones, FlyCast now has a desktop version. Here we download it, install it, and put it through its paces. How does it do? In a word, it's nothing but radio!
Review of Hulu Desktop - Long an online presence, TV video and movie purveyor Hulu now has a dedicated desktop version. It's designed to work with your Media Center remote and play full screen on your PC. The application exposes a few rough edges, but it's trying its best to be a better TV than TV. Let's see how it does.
Understanding Home Theater A/V Receivers Specifications and Terminology - The A/V receiver is a important part of a home theater system. Some folks prefer to select a higher-end A/V receiver that offers high output, many different surround sound modes, and easy switching between components. This guide covers terms and specifications for receivers purchased separately.
Review: ZeeVee Zinc - Online Media Aggregator for Your PC and TV - ZV Zinc, in beta as this is written, is the software half of a PC-controlled whole-house video distribution system. It works to collect online media resources such as Hulu and Netflix and send it to a TV or to work on the PC using a Windows Media Center remote. Here we download it and try it out.
How to Sync Your Non-iPod MP3 Player with iTunes (Windows) - Have music in iTunes in Windows, but don't have an iPod? With a little help from iTunes Agent, it's easy to sync your iTunes music collection with your portable MP3 player. If you can plug it in as a storage device and get a drive letter for it in Windows, it should work. Here we show you how.
"Home Sharing" - Easy Media Sharing Sharing in iTunes 9 - Have a home network and most of your iTunes media content in a central location on one computer? Previously it has been possible to share an iTunes library across the network, but iTunes 9's new "Home Sharing" feature makes it about as easy as it possibly can be. Let's give it a try.
How to Copy Cassette Audio to MP3 or to iTunes - Do you have a collection of old cassette albums that you'd like to listen to in iTunes or on your MP3 player? This article shows how, with screen shots and links, to copy cassette music into tracks on the PC and export the tracks to MP3. It's a bit time consuming, but it's not too difficult.
