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04.25.06Home Theatre PC Links RoundupI have a lot of visitors looking for information about media centers right now. Here is a quick list of links in this blog that is useful if you want to start experimenting. You find all the articles in the Home Theatre PC (HTPC) category here: Eirikso.com - HTPC And a selection of specially useful articles: The media center software list HTPC Frontend roundup Screen technologies. LCD or Plasma? Perfect adjustment of your LCD How to build a cabinet for your HTPC How to build a completely silent fan for your cabinet Thumbnails of my old background pictures How to remote control your music collection from your PDA, laptop, meedio etc… Silencing ...
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04.06.06Perfect adjustment of your LCDWhen connecting my QPVision 37" LCD to my media center through DVI I had no problems running the native resolution of 1366x768 on the screen. This gave me one-to-one pixel mapping and a completely sharp picture. However, my friend Staale ran into some problems that seem to be quite common. He did some tests and created a simple and very effective test pattern that can help you find the right resolution. It seems like quite a bit of LCD screens that has a resolution of 1366x768 report to the screen cards that the correct resolution is 1360x768. Seems like a small difference, ...
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03.13.06Screen technologies. LCD or Plasma?People keeps asking me what I would recommend for a home theatre PC (HTPC). LCD or Plasma? In general I would recommend a good LCD. I know that the problems with burn in have been close to eliminated on the best plasma screens. Still, I find the crisp and clean LCD picture with absolutely no burn in problem preferable. A quick roundup: Cathode Ray Tube (CRT) First of all, it is perfectly OK to use your old tube. A standard cathode ray tube (CRT) connected to a PC through S-Video or even composite video should work fine if you adjust your screen ...
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03.09.06Dagbladet todayToday there is an article about media centers in the norwegian newspaper Dagbladet. They have asked me about different solutions and give a quick overview of what all this is about. I will also attend to a net meeting at dagbladet.no on tuesday 14th at 1300 CET. This meeting will be in Norwegian. Please also feel free to post any questions or comments on this post in my blog. To make it easier for Dagbladet's readers I will give you a quick roundup of some media center links and advice: - The complete list of software solutions - A quick roundup of some of the ...
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02.25.06How to control your amplifier from the MCE IR-blasterI just upgraded my home entertainment system with a Pioneer VSX-915 amplifier. Meaning that I now connect my Home Theatre PC to the amp digitally through SPDIF. To control the volume properly I have to use the volume on the amplifier and not adjust the volume out of my Media Center. The easiest solution is of course to use the remote of the amp, but I don't want to use two remotes. I only want one remote in my living room and that is the MCE remote. If you have a relatively new MCE remote you can easily program it to control ...