Seen that? - Turn Your Mac Mini Into A Media Center

Filed in archive Best of on December 30, 2009

Turn Your Mac Mini Into A Media Center at The Wired Home Weblog

Last week we told you about the Mac Media Center Project where the goal was to turn the Mac Mini into a full fledged media center. If you're not that patient, Engadget has a nice how to on turning the Mac Mini into a media center. While it may not be the ulimate solution for some, it seems to get the job done.Turn Your Mac Mini Into A Media Center [...] Read More


VWB's MediaREADY 5000 Advanced Media Center to run SageTV's Media Center Software at The Wired Home Weblog

This is the first press release, so we don't know any pricing or availablity details yet. Video Without Boundaries has announced plans to release the MediaREADY 5000 Advanced Digital Media Center to the market powered by the Linux-based SageTV Media Center software. Some of the features include. Complete personal video recording, without subscription fees, for recording TV shows to the 5000's internal hard drive, including the ability to pause and rewind [...] Read More


Microsoft Windows XP Media Center Edition 2005 Overview at The Wired Home Weblog

The Richmond Times-Dispatch has a small but decent overview of the Microsoft Windows XP Media Center edition 2005. The most exciting part is the support for Media Center Extenders: Another significant new feature is support for Media Center Extenders, appliances that allow streaming most of the content on the media center PC to other rooms over wired or wireless networks. Downside: You'll have to shell out an additional $300 per extender. [...] Read More


Media Center Wii at House of Nintendo

Curious with the home media center applications of the freshly-online Wii, many gamers/bloggers have been testing streaming music and video applications in conjunction with the Wii. Straight from LiquidIce's Nintendo Wii Hacks comes a great round-up of streaming music solutions, all of which work with varying success rates. Here are two headline programs that are gaining popularity around the web: Orb - An already-popular media center app, Orb seems to work [...] Read More


Luxuriant Media Center For People With No Friends at The Gadgets Weblog

If you're loaded, like watching movies, playing games, immersing yourself in high definition pornography, AND have no friends, this one is bound to tickle your fancy. Crave report:"Despite its Pottery Barn-inspired name, the "maya Single" media apparatus impressively features an architecturally designed chair with strategically positioned 60-watt speakers, subwoofer, and 32- or 26-inch screen perched precariously by a metal arm hanging overhead, all accented with natural wood trim, according to T3. [...] Read More