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Update: You can now already order the Boxee Box directly from Dick Smith Electronics.
The Boxee box by D-Link has signed up Amazon (US) as exclusive pre-order partners for the Boxee Box.  People who pre-order this $199 HD Media experience through Amazon in the US will receive their Boxee Box before it goes on sale [...]

XBMC has been progressing at an incredible otherworldly pace and tonight’s latest Changeset is no exception. From Revision 27376 Onwards, XBMC now supports dxva2 decoder support for vc1/h264 courtesy of the Boxee DXVA implementation.  Thats right, my aging Athlon 4400XP now barely hits 20% CPU usage with most 1080p material.
This is for the Windows [...]

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As default, XBMC uses the internal audio player, PAplayer to output music.  The issue with XBMC at the moment is that it cannot passthrough DTS audio streams to your receiver using PAplayer so the sound gets converted into stereo.
The solution to this is relatively simple, and is achieved by using the internal DVDPlayer.
Simply add this [...]

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 [...]

I came across this excellent resource of various Theater Signs whilst visiting AVS forums.
What can you do with these?
Checkout this AVS forum post and finish off your home theater room with some professional looking wall posters.  You can even create an impressive desktop background or Collage for your HTPC screen using these images.  The options [...]

Is a more expensive HDMI cable better?
In most real world cases, the answer is a definite no.
As long as the cable you are buying conforms to the HDMI 1.3 spec you will be fine in today’s consumer devices.  There is a common saying on the internet in regards to buying HDMI cables and it certainly [...]

Available right now via retail outlets all over Australia, the PS3 Slim is a hot piece of hardware.  At long last Sony have got the pricing almost perfect on their current generation console.
From the vast majority of stores, the 120gig version looks as if it will retail for around AU$500 – $470 but [...]