Dell XPS 410 Gets CableCARD

Posted on August 20, 2007 at 11:52 am (PST)

As a heavy user of my own PVR, I’ve been hankering to convert to a system with CableCARD support. It’s just plain silly to pay the $6.00/month for a cable receiver, and then futz around with the IR blaster (which inevitably gets out of synch right when I’m ready to start recording). No, I’d rather [...]

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Sony’s VAIO TP1 Full of Goodness but Looks Like Ottoman

Posted on July 27, 2007 at 9:23 am (PST)

That might not seem fair, but I swear: I was in a furniture store the other day and saw an ottoman that looked just like Sony’s new VAIO TP1 HTPC. Which might be on purpose, because this thing certainly won’t fit in any A/V rack that I know of. It’s also not the most well-equipped [...]

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TiVo Gets Cheaper

Posted on July 17, 2007 at 11:54 am (PST)

There’s been a leak of the new TiVo set that is rumored to come out this fall.  Priced out at around $300 it’s said to be a HD digital recorder and this photo just might be a prototype. The TiVo Light Series 3 has two CableCARD slots, one for Multi- or Single- stream slots, and [...]

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