Beginners Guide to installing Windows 7
Have you wanted to upgrade to Microsoft Windows 7 or just do a fresh install and don't know where to start? Running Windows 7 can be a huge time saver, and, in many cases, will run much faster on the...
View ArticleCreating an HTPC Activity on Logitech Harmony One
Last Christmas my wife, reprising her role as Santa Claus, climbed down the chimney and left the Logitech Harmony One universal remote under the tree. It was gleaming in the early morning sunshine--I...
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Using the Native 7MC Movie Library
While there are certainly a number of options when it comes to movie management within Microsoft Windows 7 Media Center (7MC) such as My Movies, Media Browser, etc., one of the simplest is the...
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Methods to Resolve and Diagnose Sleep Problems with Windows 7
While getting sleep to work reliably with windows 7 is much easier than it was in the days of windows XP, it still can take a little bit of work to get the settings rights. One thing that makes it...
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CableCARD Tuner Essentials
Technology of CableCARD; How long it’s been around? Why’s it important?For the full nitty gritty details of CableCARD check out the Wikipedia entry which is fairly thorough. At a higher level, the...
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Using the Native Video and Picture Library
Using the Native Video and Picture LibraryRecently we created a guide on how to use the Movie Library within Microsoft Windows 7 Media Center (“7MC”). Today we are going to look at adding files to the...
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Migrating the MythTV Database Between Installations
For years now I’ve been running the same Linux installation and the same MythTV installation on the same hardware. From time to time I would upgrade the MythTV installation or the OS to the latest...
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MythTV on Windows?!
MythTV is complicated to setup. MythTV only runs under Linux. MythTV is only for people who like to tweak their setups all the time…These are some of the stereotypes surrounding MythTV. While this...
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Digitizing VHS with the Hauppauge Colossus
So my primary reason for purchasing the Hauppauge Colossus was to digitize a small VCR library. Some purchased movie titles others non-professional and non-purchasable. It seems my wife's Dad...
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Migrate Away from Windows Home Server Drive Extender
As previously noted, I'm working on upgrading the server in my house, which currently runs Windows Home Server (v1). While I don't plan to use Windows Home Server 2011 for anything but backups, this...
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Recording Hulu, Netflix or Anything via the Hauppauge Colossus
So we've all probably experienced the case where, for some reason, our DVR misses an episode and we have to find it via another mechanism. Sure, you can watch it on Hulu or Amazon VOD, but you want to...
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Guide - MythTV Quick Tip - Reset the Painter
I recently wrote about my experiences installing MythTV on my Windows laptop. While it's been working great, I recently ran into a problem and wanted to share the solution.While playing with some...
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Backup, Migrate or Share SiliconDust HDHomeRun (HDHR) Digital Cable (QAM) Lineup
I picked up a SiliconDust HDHomeRun (HDHR) recently and after setting it up I was looking for an easy way to export the configuration to another HTPC which would share the device. Unfortunately this...
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New and Returning TV Calendars for sharing, downloading, and it updates - ALL...
Missing Remote is proud to have many writers that are avid television watchers. When we were looking around for a list of shows and their start dates we found just those--list after list, so we have...
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Display Rendering Stats in MPC-HC
Every so often I see a question about how we generated the detailed display information used in our HTPC reviews. It's not hard to setup, but I figured that it was time to document the process in a...
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Using full disk encryption to cleanup data on old storage drives before...
If you have been computing long enough, eventually you will end up with a pile of old hard drives (HDD) and USB drives that are not useful anymore, but still work. The problem of course is that at one...
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How-to enable Emby mobile photo backups
I’ve been really impressed with the pace of improvement with the Emby media server and companion apps, but there was one thing that really stopped me from embracing the suite – automated mobile photo...
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Block Google DNS per device
Domain name space. Licensed under Public Domain via Commons.Some apps, like Netflix, have recently started hard coding Google's DNS servers into them to combat the use of VPNs and Smart DNS services....
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Install Pulse-Eight internal HDMI-CEC adapter in Intel Skylake NUC (NUC6i5SYK)
As you all know, one of the major disappointment with the Intel Broadwell NUCs was that Intel made it much harder than is should have been to leverage the HTPC’s HDMI CEC header. So when the Intel...
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MythTV on Windows?!
MythTV is complicated to setup. MythTV only runs under Linux. MythTV is only for people who like to tweak their setups all the time…These are some of the stereotypes surrounding MythTV. While this...
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