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I want to instal a 3rd monitor on my PC. My idea has been to use my existing VGA and DVI connections on my desktop as an extended desktop but use my HDMI output for my 3rd screen. I'll send it through my cat6 ports and cables to my bedroom TV. I want that screen to mirror one of my desktop...

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So I've been goin' nuts with this for about a week. So I recently purchased a 1000W Sony Home Theater System (BDVN-5200W) which is my main outgoing audio system. What I had before this was a Razer Leviathan. My main audio for the Sony is connected via Optical / SPDIF and the main reason I'm...

I have several kids movies on my laptop. I want to burn them on to a DVD-RW so the lads can watch them when ever and I don't need to collect the laptop to the TV. I burned a Movie to a DVD and it worked fine but none of the next movies will work. Then burn on the DVD but wont play on my DVD...

OK. I just built a new computer last month. Did the usuals. SSD for boot drive. 4TB worth of storage so little more than Win 7 on the boot drive. If the Win 10 upgrade hoses the boot drive it's no big deal to start again. Everything important is already on other drives. Now on to my stupid...

I'm new to windows, and i just built a computer that runs windows 8.1. I set up my computer to work as a dlna media server and ive put some photos in windows media player and im 100% positive that there on the dlna server. But when i go to my xbox and click the server, all the folders show up...

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I have created a 30 minute film clip of a family vacation, and I would like to burn it to a DVD so that it can be played on any home DVD player. Using Windows Explorer, I first insert the DVD in my drive and wait a bit for the box to appear asking how I wish to use the DVD. I click the...

Good morning. I posted here before, or rather at the former iteration of the Windows Forum, about how I wanted to replace the sound card with a digital receiver and some regular bookshelf speakers, because I found the Klipsch Pro-Media powered speaker systems ( I have both the 2.1 and the 4.1...

Can anyone point me in the direction of information about whether it is possible to access my Win7 HTPC remotely to initiate torrent downloads? Thanks for any help.

Have recently upgraded a pc to WIN 8.1 Pro 64 bit from WIN 7 64 bit. Before the upgrade I had a DxTreme 380 media box located in the lounge room and networked via Cat6 cable to the pc in the bedroom. All devices on the network - Samsung tv, DxTreme box + 4 PC's have static IP addresses...

I have an external hard drive I use to store movie files I have transcoded from DVD into .mp4 format. I used up most of the space on a 1 TB drive, so I am importing files to a 2 TB drive. there are nearly 200 files that did not successfully transfer- which I have determined to be caused by a...

I have just recently purchased an A/V Receiver-Sony STRDH520, a low-end 7.1ch receiver. I also have a myriad of various speakers to use, from Klipschs to Polk Audio speakers to Bose 301s. I also just purchased a Polk audio 12" powered sub to go with these. Anyway, I plan on only using 5.1 right...

Most HD movies are rendered in 1920x1080 pixel resolution. What's a pixel? Link Removed The original Super Mario was comprised of tiny little squares called pixels. His appearance in the original Donkey Kong probably used even fewer pixels. For example, Mario's thumb on his right hand is one...

I guess I should start by saying I'm running Windows 7 Ultimate x86 I got a pair of Link Removed for Christmas and couldn't wait to pair them up to my Windows 7 Home Theater PC so I could watch movies after my wife has gone to bed w/o disturbing her. My first problem was I had no bluetooth...

First sorry about spelling. I just wanted to know how to set up media sharing between media player and my Xbox as IV never liked media center and alot of my films are not a compatible format. So I use media sharing but since updating to this preview program I can't seem to set it up can any...

Hi All, Recently i brought one 5.1 Home theater and m trying it to connect with my Compaq laptop . Problem :- My problem is i am unable to get 5.1 output from my laptop. My laptop model is:- CQ40 425TU. I am using windows7 OS and my sound card is IDT - High Definition Audio . I have tried...

hello there - thank you for reading my post. i have 3 computers - a laptop (vista wireless), a home theater pc (win 7 wireless) and my main computer (win 7 wired) with all my media files. i have a network setup and the laptop and the HTPC can connect to each other when i click their icons in...

An update is available for Windows Media Center in Windows 7. This update fixes a deadlock issue that occurs when you use TV tunner in Windows Media Center to watch TV. Link Removed