VanillaHD – Just Plain High Definition

  Emergence Day has come and gone, and now the Halo 3 release is over. The question remains though, which of the next generation HD multiplayer games is superior. This is my take, I have spent may hours with both games so I will be blunt and making sure not favoring any title. Before I [...]

Starting with the gripes… So I logged into my Xbox live account the other day and had to do an update. I had heard this update was supposed to be great, however I have had a few problems that I was wondering if anyone else was having. First off, I normally run at 1080i and [...]

So as you know from my previous posts, I’ve been using Windows Media Center and Transcode360 to stream video files from my computer to my Xbox 360. But this leaves out the group that is still running Windows XP. I have made a few posts about sharing media via Windows Media Player 11 and Microsofts [...]

This is the first post in our hometheater showdown where we take two of our bloggers “home theaters” and compare a specific item. In this “Home Theater Showdown” series, you will find out who has the biggest, the baddest, the cheapest (inexpensive), the loudest, the brightest, the highest quality-ist home theater out there. Get ready [...]

WARNING: THIS METHOD IS NOT FREE. BUT IT WORKS SOLID AND WORTH EVERY PENNY! Ever since I figured out how to play mkv, ts, x264, mov and all those other video formats on my xbox360 using windows vista, I was eager to find something just as great for the mac. And what I found is [...]

HDMI has been on the streets, in some form, since 2002. Through these last few years, new versions of HDMI have been steadily releasing. This is a quick reference guide for the different versions of HDMI and what each version provides to the consumer. What is HDMI? HDMI (High-Definition Multimedia Interface) is an uncompressed, all-digital [...]

This tutorial is for anyone running Windows Vista or Windows Media Center 2005. In case you haven’t noticed, the Xbox 360 is very limited to the video types that it is able to play. These types include .avi (only certain ones), .mpeg, and .wma. I think it’s pretty lame that they don’t natively support more. [...]

For all the brilliant websites out there, I have yet to find one that explains just “what I need to know” about aspect ratios. So I decided to put together a just plain vanilla post to understanding aspect ratios. I am taking and comparing the 3 most popular aspect ratios that films have been made [...]

This is a simple list I wanted to put together to express what I think are the BEST looking HD-Dvd’s to date (January 20th, 2007). A lot goes into making my decision, like widescreen vs. anamorphic, 720p, 1080i or 1080p, things like that. So here is the list in no particular order. The Top 5 [...]

That title probably took 5 minutes to write, but it explains exactly what I wanted to do and I’m sure what you want to do as well. There a a lot of sites that explain this, but I want to make it as SIMPLE as possible. So here we go! overview: Get your xbox 360 [...]