Great TV Tuner card for MCE. Hybrid cards are pretty common, but this one is unique in having a hardware MPEG-2 encoder for its NTSC tuner (in addition to its ATSC tuner for OTA HD).

That means you get two tuners which operate at the same time for the cost of one PCI slot. Cheaper than the hybrid ATI 650 with no hardware encoder for its analog NTSC tuner (and you can only use one tuner at a time).

Some tips for waking a sleeping PC on LAN activity ... a timely post, since I was just wondering how I could cut down on my multi-PC power usage (without losing remote SVN, remote desktop, etc.).

This little device lets you use your Xbox 360 wireless controller on your PC.

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This looks pretty cool.

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Very cool -- lots of company logos in *vector* format. Now I can add TV logos to my remote control ...

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The rumor is true ... this is great. I can run this on my Xbox until the drivers come out, then to the PC with its fully digital connection.

3rd party drivers to enable the analog tuner on ATI (h)DTV Wonder card / Vista.

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Need to look at this vs. online storage. It can hold 200 DVDs or CDs. One extremely cool feature is you can load it with your CD collection and batch rip! It will also play DVDs via MCE's interface. Need to figure out how flexible it is ... SDK, alternate OS compatibility, etc. Tempting to wait for a BD version, but $399.99 after rebate isn't THAT ridiculous.

I could recover some of the cost by offering "CD ripping services" for people with big collections :)

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