As I explained in an earlier post, I have set up a Mac mini in my living room that primarily acts as a server, but it is also connected to my home entertainment system to function as a media player. I confess that I did this merely because I could. Like I said back then, [...]
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Why Plex makes me finally use a media center, and how to watch overseas television without limitations using VPN
Posted in Consumer Tech, Mac, tagged Hulu, iPlayer, Logitech Harmony One, media center, Plex, VPN on Wednesday April 22, 2009 | 11 Comments »
Why the perfect universal remote will never exist (but how the Harmony One comes close)
Posted in Consumer Tech, tagged infrared, Logitech Harmony One, remote control on Saturday April 18, 2009 | 2 Comments »
My history of researching, buying, using and discarding universal remotes to operate my home entertainment equipment might be comparable to my search for the perfect computer mouse: neither quest has thus far resulted in finding a product that seems to fit my wishes perfectly. In these days, with an ever growing pile of eletronics devices [...]
The wide screen saga
Posted in Consumer Tech, tagged DVD, HDMI, Widescreen, Wii on Sunday October 12, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Wide screen television sets were introduced in Europe around 1992. At that time, there were hardly any wide screen broadcasts, so in order to move these new wide TV sets, manufacturers included all kinds of artificial picture scaling technologies into their products, stretching out the image just so that the screen is “filled”, and no [...]
A degree in picture management
Posted in Consumer Tech, tagged Blu-ray Disc, HDMI, HDTV, Philips, Sony on Saturday October 11, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Only recently, I took the plunge and bought myself my first Blu-ray Disc player, a Sony BDP-S350. I waited specifically for this model, for two reasons. One, I wanted the player to be BD-Live (or Profile 2.0) compliant, meaning that it is equiped with a network-connector allowing certain BD titles to access the Internet and [...]
