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Years ago I really got into Linux and I tried out many different distro’s. There was one that I spent more time on then any other distro. It was called MythTV. In essence, MythTV is a fully functional alternative to a Tivo Box. Much cheaper in the long run too.(Tivo is $12.99/month-MythTV is free!). Now, unless you have an extra PC laying around, getting yourself a nice looking HTPC case alone for your MythTV setup is gonna set you back at least $300, and a new Tivo setup only runs you about $300 and that inlcudes everything. HDD, Capture Card, and Case. You also have another option. A company called “Monolith MC” sells pre-built MythTV boxes. The benefit of these is they include more HD space then a Tivo and they have no monthly fee.  If your gonna get serious about it. I suggest you watch this first. http://revision3.com/systm/mythtv/

Apple has alway been known for loading all of it’s computers with plenty of feature. From the AV equipped Performa’s of yester year to the Mac Pro’s that could run a space station. Apple never ceases to outdue its self. So, I have started a new segment dedicated helping you to get the most out of your mac.

If your are lucky enough to of boughten a new Mac within the last 2-3 yrs you are blessed with a single port that will offer unpredesecnted audio quality. You may of forgotten that your old 3.5mm jack(headphone jack) also has an optical out function built into the same part. That optical out jack gives you access to 7.1 channels of surrond sound. To gain access to this port you’ll have to pick youself up a Mini-toslink adapter. Don’t worry it’s not that spendy. That adapter and matching 6 foot cable will only run you $3.68 from Buy.com

So there ya go, Enjoy that pristine audio from your Mac!

What Percentage of illegally obtained media would you say you purchase after deciding it is worth the investment?

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I’m going on a cruise tomorrow. I’ll be back next monday. In the mean time, check out the links to the right. When I get back I’ll have plenty of new stuff.

A few days ago I posted my predictions for the new MBP’s I was a little off, but here they are:

More powerful versions of the MacBook Pro have been released today with up to 2.6GHz Intel Core 2 Duo Penryn processors, and the MacBook Air’s trackpad, which allows for multi-touch gestures. The 2.5 and 2.6GHz models come with a new NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT with 512MB of GDDR3 RAM. The MacBook has also been upgraded (yay!), but no multitouch (boo!), probably to make a distinction between them and the MacBook Air. New Core 2 Duo versions across the board, which are supposed to be about 50% faster and more power efficient.
• New GeForce 8600M GT with 512MB.
• Multitouch pad on MacBook Pro.
• New LED option on top of the line 17″ screen.

An array of classic TV shows from CBS are now available online, the network’s CBS Interactive division announced Thursday.

Full-length episodes of Star Trek, Melrose Place, Hawaii Five-O, MacGyver, and The Twilight Zone have been added to the lineup of the company’s CBS Audience Network, as well as its central streaming-video site. All of it is free and ad-supported; only select seasons of each show are currently available, but CBS has hinted that more episodes, as well as additional TV shows, will go up in the near future.

They can all be found here: CBS Community

You think that dvd player is just a bunch of parts? It’s so much more. Each DVD player not only has equipment costs but also royalties for using the technology. Anywhere from $4-6 per drive and up to$.15 per disc.

Forget about customer satisfaction or superiority of image quality. The real issue in the war between Blu-ray and HD DVD was about royalties. It will also get studios and disc makers to deliver Blu-ray discs to consumers. And every time one of those drives or discs leaves a factory, the Blu-ray Disc Association will get a royalty. The numbers add up quickly. Look at DVD, for example. To make a DVD player legally, manufacturers recently had to pay around $4 per player or drive, according to some estimates. A few years ago, those fees were around $15 to $20. Fees get paid every time a DVD drive gets included in a PC. Nearly every PC in the world has a DVD drive these days and roughly 250 million PCs get shipped every year. Companies that legally make DVD discs also pay fees. Then there are verification fees. The royalties, in fact, lead to what Chinese leaders call the “DVD mistake,” said Zhisheng Niu, vice dean of the school of information sciences at Tsinghua University, in an interview with CNET News.com last year. Chinese manufacturers often got around the licensing issues problem by making illegal players. (The DVD Forum eliminated the royalty for DVD players made and sold in China for a few years, but a lot of those systems ended up overseas.) The royalties are one of the prime reasons China has pushed for its own optical standard. “We have to develop our own standards so that we can have our own industry,” said Niu.

Read more over at cnet.com

Amazon already has an online download store from which you can buy Music, Software, and books, But soon it seem they will be adding one more to the list. Video games! Certain companies already allow thier games to be purchased and downloaded via the internet. However that has mostly only been an option for smaller games. Amazon hopes to offer up full downloads of the most recent games. This really isn’t a surprise to anyone as Microsoft and Sony have been doing something similar for awhile now.

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