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- The most disappointing products of 2007
- Yesterday I put up the Nintendo Wii and the Apple iPhone up as the biggest hits of 2007. Today while glancing through my inbox I come across this request: "So, you like the Wii, but what, in your opinion, were the products that sucked the most for 2007?" OK,...
- Tags: Product, Apple Inc., Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Apple iTunes, Hauppauge, AppleTV, Digital Music, Video Cards, Hd Dvd, Microsoft Windows, Digital Media, Personal Technology, Hardware, Components, DVD, Home Entertainment, Operating Systems, Software, Consumer Electronics, Adrian Kingsley-Hughes
- Blog posts 2007-12-11
- Hauppauge Wireless MediaMVP
- Long Island, New York-based Hauppauge first entered the digital media receiver category in 2003 with its MediaMVP, which streams audio, video, and image files over a wired Ethernet connection from your PC to your TV and stereo system. The company recently expanded the product line with an 802.11g wireless version...
- Tags: Wi-Fi, Digital media, Digital music, Wireless MediaMVP, Hauppauge, wireless, video, TV
- Product reviews 2006-06-28
- Hauppauge WinTV-PVR-USB2
- At 6.25 inches square, the Hauppauge WinTV-PVR-USB2 has a big footprint for an external USB TV tuner. Like the Diamond XtremeTV PVR600, it retails for $149 and includes a remote control. Along with the Diamond, it offers the best image quality of the bunch, but it doesn't include A/V cables,...
- Tags: TV & Home Theater, TVs, Hauppauge WinTV-PVR-USB2, Hauppauge, TV, cable
- Product reviews 2006-02-08
- Color Lasers in Hauppauge, N.Y. Classrooms Reduce Costs and Improve Reliability
- Situated on New York's Long Island, the town of Hauppauge operates five public schools with a total student enrollment of 4,300. School districts throughout the United States were facing a dilemma. Budgets remain tight, but curricula and technology must grow in order to prepare students for the modern world. Hauppauge...
- Tags: Laser, Lexmark International Inc., Hauppauge
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- Vista+SP1+-+The+promised+performance+gains+are+there
- Vista+SP1+-+The+promised+performance+gains+are+thereMy experienceVista spends a lot of time thinking before it executes. Did you take the measurements for the execution time or when you placed the order, so to speak?Test possibilities1. Network throttling on media playback (sorted yet?)2. Machine- machine copy3. Comparison to XP (you're 'XP is Vistas biggest competitior theme')....
- Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), File I/O, Microsoft Windows Vista, Vista+SP1+-+The+promised+performance+gains+are+there, Microsoft Windows Vista SP1
- Discussion threads 2008-02-07
- On the test bench - AMD 'Spider' Phenom 9600-based system
- On the test bench - AMD 'Spider' Phenom 9600-based systemI am curiousIkay, I have reaqd reviews so far, which make the phenom look quite bad. I would like to see some non-biased opinions. Here's the deal. I have always been an AMD user. Point of prefrence. After experiencing the Core...
- Tags: Taxes, Processors, Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Phenom 9600, phenom
- Discussion threads 2007-12-18
- The most disappointing products of 2007
- The most disappointing products of 2007Haup & VistaNow my Haup HD tuner is USB, so maybe that makes a difference, but after following the installation instructions to a tee I had a perfectly working tuner/capture card on Vista HP. Now mind you, Haup's software is vintage mid-1990's quality, but with...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Operating systems, OPEN SOURCE, security, Haup USB TV tuner, Microsoft Windows Vista, Linux, ATI Technologies Inc.
- Discussion threads 2007-12-11
- Follow-up - Playing music severely degrades network transfer performance in Vista
- This is a follow-up to "Playing music severely degrades network transfer performance in Vista" which I posted earlier.I wan banking that this problem would come down to a single application such as Windows Media Player, but alas the problem seems a lot deeper than that. Over at the PC Doc...
- Tags: Audio, Windows Media, Performance, Network, Microsoft Windows Vista, Video, Network Performance, Music, Effect, Adrian Kingsley-Hughes
- Blog posts 2007-08-21
- 64-bit PCs: Drivers wanted
- 64-bit PCs: Drivers wantedI need to build a custom pc in orderto run Vista 64bits? No Thanks!Drivers Sometimes Difficult to FindI build my own PC and went with a 64 bit AMD and an MSI motherboard. I also purchased Windows XP Professional x64 as the OS. Thus far...
- Tags: Network technology, Apple Mac OS X, PC, 64-bit
- Discussion threads 2007-08-03
- Friday Rant - Things I hate about Windows Vista
- Friday Rant - Things I hate about Windows VistaThere is no WOW to Vista.Sorry but I just don't see any WOW. I much prefer the classic look to Vista."Want examples, here’s just two – a Hauppauge TV tuner and Adobe Premiere Elements 3.0.2. Both of these products claim Vista compatible...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows Vista
- Discussion threads 2007-07-27
- Friday Rant - Things I hate about Windows Vista
- It's Friday again so it's time for another Friday Rant. This could be a very long post ... but I'll try to restrain myself.First, some background. When I've been sitting in front of a Vista machine over the last few months I've usually been in one of two modes. The first mode is where I'm exploring Vista and getting...
- Tags: Thoughts, Vista
- Blog posts 2007-07-27
- ChrisTV PVR Professional (exe)
- ChrisTV PVR Professional is the PVR that takes control over your TV card. TV on your PC with high quality image and sound. Supports all TV cards based on BT8x8 chipset, Philips SAA713x chipset, Conexant CX2388x, and TV Cards with MPEG hardware encoder. Hauppauge PVR series, Leadtek PVR2000, ATI Ehome...
- Tags: Chipsets, DVR, TVs, TV & Home Theater, personal video recorder, chipset, TV, card, MPEG, codec, AVI, radio, hardware, PC
- Software downloads 2007-04-17
- Windows Vista - 19 months of usage and counting
- I downloaded my first beta of Windows Vista on July 27th 2005. Over that 19 month period Ive been making increasing use of Vista platform. In a few weeks I hope that all the main rigs here at the PC Doc HQ will be running Vista and that...
- Tags: Microsoft, Vista
- Blog posts 2007-02-23
- NVIDIA drivers don't play nicely with Windows Vista
- NVIDIA drivers don't play nicely with Windows VistaWhat is the basis for the law suit?I mean come on people, grow up!ATI is no better.I hate the fact that I have a Radeon X1900 XTX and that i can only ise teh windows drivers. When I install the "bets" drivers on,...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Games, ATI Technologies Inc., Guttman, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows Vista, NVidia Corp., nVidea, game
- Discussion threads 2007-02-08
- Getting ready for Windows Vista - Part 1
- This is the first of a two-part series on getting your system or systems ready for Windows Vista. In this post Im going to look at what you need to do or at least think about before putting that new, shiny Windows Vista DVD in the drive and beginning...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Microsoft Windows Vista, RAM, Microsoft Windows, hardware
- Blog posts 2007-01-08
- Who's got the best seat in the digital living room?
- Who's got the best seat in the digital living room?None of them worth the cost or effort.Bottom line, I haven't seen a "system" that is user friendly or does what the consumer really wants.No rush here folks, this turkey is a long ways from being done.The next major battlegroundI like...
- Tags: Corporate communications, Network technology, TVs, Sage, TiVo Inc., video, TiVo Series3, BTV Link, S2DT, PC
- Discussion threads 2006-10-25
- Who's got the best seat in the digital living room?
- [Update 25-Oct 2:30PM PDT: I've revised the chart originally published with this post to incorporate feedback from the Talkback section. Thanks to all the commenters who added details.]A lot of hardware and software companies, including Microsoft, are betting big bucks that they can take over the living room and be...
- Tags: Beyond TV, digital video, digital video recorder, recorder, video recorder
- Blog posts 2006-10-25
- Tech consultant rips off PCs, sells them on eBay
- Here's an enterprising school consultant. Donald W. Meritz worked as a tech consultant for the Sachem NY School District, where he stole 24 computers and 10 network switches, then sold them on eBay, NewsDay reports. "This is another sad chapter in the story of Suffolk County schools," State Comptroller...
- Tags: computer, networking switch, Donald W. Meritz
- Blog posts 2006-08-24
- Shuttle XPC X100
- If the Shuttle XPC X100 had come out back in February when it was first announced, we'd be pretty excited. But finally shuffling into view past the midyear mark, it's a case of too little, too late for what initially seemed like a very promising system. The smallest Shuttle we've...
- Tags: Jiv Mini, Media Center PC, Shuttle, Shuttle XPC, Shuttle XPC X100, WinBook Jiv
- Product reviews 2006-07-31
- HP Pavilion d4600y
- HP is not generally known for being first out of the gate with new technology, but to its credit, the company was right there on launch day with a system built around Intel's new Core 2 Duo CPU. The HP Pavilion d4600y sticks a Core 2 Duo E6600 CPU inside...
- Tags: Desktops, Processors, HP Pavilion, Hewlett-Packard Co., Intel Core 2 Duo
- Product reviews 2006-07-27
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