I wanted to harness Media Center's ability to display photos, but don't actually store anything locally; a while back I made a call to use Flickr for my photo storage, thus ensuring that I had an off-site backup of all … Continue reading
I hope this isn't a sign of things to come. My first night of properly using the Media PC, and I've hit a bit of a snag. I set Wanted to "record series", and I noticed that the first episode … Continue reading
I'm not afraid of Sky, I just really don't like them very much. Ashleigh brought to my attention an article on The Register called Don't be scared of Sky. It's an interesting read, and contains these gems: "Churn (cancellation) levels … Continue reading
So the aerial install is done and my Media PC has existed quite nicely for the last week, recording random crap whenever I asked it to. I had one tense moment when the machine rebooted itself overnight, but a quick … Continue reading
My Media Center PC continues to move slowly towards full capacity. I'm still not quite there though. Last night I did some more fiddling. I've found that setting the s-video output on my newly installed Nvidia card to NTSC actually … Continue reading
I took my first steps down the magical green brick road that is Windows XP Media Center Edition last night. It was all going so well; I'd fitted my DVD drive, and new graphics card, installed Windows, and connected everything … Continue reading