Build Your Own Media Centre

Express TV Tuner Cards In Oz
LifeView’s Express TV Tuner cards are now available in Australia. LifeView distributor G.D.B International claims they offer five times the bandwidth of old USB 2.0 interface and over twice the bandwidth of the old PCI interface.

Watch Digital TV On Your PC
Anyware has released three new Compro VideoMate TV Tuner products that allow you to watch and record digital TV on your PC.

Abit Kickstarts HDMI Computing
Taiwanese manufacturer Abit has announced the world’s first HDMI motherboard, which should see widespread acceptance by media centre builders.

How to Pimp (and Tweak) Your Media Center
IceTV released their way to PIMP your Media Center ride this week, but here the SmartHouse team have come up with some more ways to make this operating system work Your Way.

Sub-$200 Dual Digital PCI TV Tuner
Pioneer Computers has released a dual digital PCI TV tuner at the keen price of $199. It claims the device is an Australian first.

TV Tuner In A Thumb Drive
Lako Pacific, distributors of Dvico products, today announced a USB TV tuner the size of a thumb drive, the FusionHDTV DVB-T nano.

How To Build Your Own Digital Media Server: Part II
The second stage of transforming your humble PC into a digital media server that is capable of distributing music and TV around the house involves setting up a second hard disk.

How To Build Your Own Digital Media Server: Part I
This is the first of two parts in which we will show you how to transform your PC into an all-in-one entertainment hub that is capable of distributing music and TV around the house.

Are Technology Firms Hyping The Digital Home?
One of the world's leading magazines The Economist claims that technology firms are pushing a futuristic vision of home entertainment not because consumers are desperate for it but because they themselves are.