home theater

I currently have Direct TV with Tivo. I understand that Windows Media Center does not work with Direct TV. What I really would like to do is give cable / satellite altogether and just record over the air using WMC. Believe it or not, I don't yet have and kind of HD receiver so I have no...

Hey there, brand new to the forum. Impressed with the automatic similar thread finder, I believe I've found the competent board to work with for Win 7! I finally got my rear surround speakers mounted on my back wall, the problem is I'm about 3-4 feet from my front speakers and at least double...

We've already seen Evoluce toy around with using a Kinect to control Windows, but it's now taken things one step further with its new "Win & I" software, which promises to let anyone do the same with minimal effort. That comes in both a home edition that offers gesture controls for Windows 7...

My Win7 64bit machines take up to 30-60 sec to recognize other devices on a wired gigabit network. Then, additional time to open a device’s HDD. But, once that is done, I can open sub-folders and xfer files around lightning fast. (Sometimes, I can’t find other devices at all w/o multiple...

I own a EVGA NVIDIA 790i ULTRA with REALTEK HD AUDIO ONBOARD. I also use BUDPHONE (budphone.ca) which I make and receive calls from through my computer over the internet. Here is my problem: Whenever I want to listen to music from my Optical Digital Out and I hear the webphone ringing I am...

How do you get a tv that has a 240Hz refresh rate to use it? Every thing that comes out of my cable box is at 60Hz and blu-ray player is 24Hz. How does this work?

Hi I have just purchased an LG 42LH3000 TV to replace my older Philips 32". I have a HTPC running Windows 7 Prof 32bit. The Philips 32" lcd was plugged in HDMI to HDMI and recognised fine in device manager with my setup. I was using Roxio CineplayerBD to play my DVDs and Blu-rays without a...

My flat-mate purchased one of the new "slim" 360's the other day and though I had no interest in it, I found that it is a convenient way of using the Sky Player rather than having to physically go over to the media pc and use their software, or search endlessly and without result for a way...

Hello,I have an HP Pavilion Desktop computer & Iam running Windows 7 Home Premium my DVD Drive doesn't want to read some discs,they have little minor scratches & others don't,but the strange thing is,I put in a disc of one my TV shows on DVD & it doesn't read it at all.My whole collection of...

Building an HTPC has long been a challenge I wanted to tackle. I wanted a system that would be able to watch/record cable, play Blu-rays and also play some games. My build: Intel Core Duo CPU ASUS P5Q-E 4 Gb DDR2-800 EVGA Gtx 260 Core 216 LG GBW-H20L BD-R Enermax 625W 1 Tb Samsung Spinpoint F1...

Ok so I've moved into a new house and want to network my computers to my xbox and use media center as my primary entertainment source. What I want to know is does windows 7 have a program that will take the video from a DVD and make it a high quality WMV file. that way I can store my DVD's in...

Vuze acts as a bit-torrent client for users to browse, watch, download and share videos, movies and music. When you downloaded movies from Vuze, you can view them on your computer. Even rare movies can be found throughout the Vuze so you can download andLink Removed. Imagine view them in your...

I have recently purchased a Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi Extreme Audio 7.1 PCI-E OEM card. The main reason I got this card is because I play my Xbox 360 through the monitor and speakers on my PC. I have 5.1 surround speakers for the PC, and I thought rather than playing games using the analogue...

HP DV6226 with W7 ultimate. I am trying to pair samsung home theater (which is bluetooth) enabled with my W7 ultimate. the hometheater was added successfully but i cannot connect to it says "bluetooth peripheral device" driver not found. I have searched the driver using windows update but...

:confused:I posted the following and have still not received an answer:I recently upgraded my Sony VGN-FZ 2900 fro VISTA 32 Bit to Windows 7 Home Premium 32 Bit. After the upgrade I no longer get Audio from my HDMI output to my external home theater system. I get Video and the Audio is...

In the past I have had no problems in getting connected to my xbox 360 using media center and tversity. It was just a straight forward set up using all the normal settings. But after installing windows 7 I have run into some problems. I can no longer stream my media to my 360 using tversity...

I recently upgraded my Sony VGN-FZ 2900 fro VISTA 32 Bit to Windows 7 Home Premium 32 Bit. After the upgrade I no longer get Audio from my HDMI output to my external home theater system. I get Video and the Audio is present on the Sony VAIO. All was working well prior to the OS change. I have...

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I am using ultimate 32bit and the 'play to' feature doesnt work yet. It says it is 'contacting media server' and that is all it does. It finds my DLNA tv but even with all the share options ticked it doesnt go any further. It is using a wireless access point which may be stopping that sort of...

3D TV gets closer Comment Sky to show the football By Link Removed - Invalid URL Friday, 27 November 2009, 16:50 SKY TELEVISION will blast 3D football into your living room by 2010, according to reports. Yes, if the thought of having Wayne Rooney and gang looming out at you in full 3D...