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What is ATI’s LCD Overdrive and Should you use it on a LCD TV?
ATI LCD Overdrive is basically a software attempt at faking a faster refresh rate on an LCD panel. When a pixel is changing its state or colour, LCD Overdrive forces a pixel to change its state earlier than it should by upping [...]

PowerDVD 9 10% OFF coupon [JANOFFER] expires on Jan 31
Coupon can be used in the US, UK AUSTRALIA, CANADA and all over Europe locales for PowerDVD, PowerDirector, PowerProducer, Media Suite 8, YouCam, Media Show Espresso 5.5, True Theater Enhancer which expire on 31st Jan 2010.

The popular xbmc fork with a social networking twist, has just had its impressive beta unveiled at an event at the Music Hall of Williamsburg. The Boxee team will open up this Beta to the public on Jan 7th (at CES) and over the next 4 weeks will gradually release invitations to our early access [...]

One of the major benefits of having a *Nix based solution for your HTPC is the relatively easy ability to have Concurrent Remote Desktop Sessions with the likes of VNC and No Machine NMX.
I require my HTPC to be connected 24-7 though I also require the ability to install and update software, run a local [...]

Ever wanted to control your XBMC Media Center with an Android powered device like the HTC magic or the HTC dream?
Now you can, The Android Remote for XBMC makes controlling your XBMC powered HTPC or Xbox a slick affair.
Just a word of warning, This software is still considered as “in development”. Once the developers are [...]

I have recently updated my main HTPC to the RC of Windows 7 and unlike Windows XP, it is not currently possible to set the default sound output device for the entire system through software.
With my previous HTPC build, My Auzentech DTS X-Plosion card would encode DTS on the fly for stereo sources and was [...]

I have been using Power DVD  for a while on my HTPC mostly due to the ability to hardware decode High Definition content like h264 using only your Graphics card – utilising next to no CPU cycles.  This method works with Xp & Vista Media Centre and Open Source HTPC frontends such as Mediaportal.
For those [...]

This is ProjectM, an opensource alternative to Milkdrop running on the XBMC front-end.
The hardware is powered by an Athlon 4400 Windows XP HTPC based system with a cheap ATI radeon 4350 HD HDMI graphics card.
I set the visualisation playlists to change every 5 seconds which highlights the different results each ProjectM preset can achieve.  I [...]

Building a HTPC (Home Theatre Personal Computer) has never been more popular but you still need some decent software to accompany your hardware.  A good Media Centre is not just a result of its owners capability but also the functionality of the software chosen to provide the ultimate media experience.  Here are 5 of the [...]

It is time to highlight some more great OpenSource Software. This time it is SABnzbd, A highly flexible, feature packed and modular binary newsreader.  SABnzb is available on  Windows (XP/Vista/Servers), Linux/Unix, Apple OSX and NAS devices.
What is SABnzbd?
SABnzbd is a free/open-source cross-platform binary newsreader written in Python.
It simplifies the process of downloading from Usenet dramatically, [...]