Picture-in-Picture: Would You Use It? - Chris Lanier’s Blog
My answer would be, “Hell, yeah!”. I think this should be an included feature with enough “smarts” to deal with all the conflicts that Chris mentions. I’m sure there are people who only have a Media Center PC in a single room with no extenders, and would [...]

Macworld: News: Copying HD DVD and Blu-ray discs may become legal
Now here’s some good news. All I have to say is, “It’s about damn time!”.
Under a licensing agreement in its final stages, consumers may get the right to make several legal copies of HD DVD and Blu-ray Disc movies they’ve purchased, a concession by the [...]

SlySoft Forum - How to turn off subtitles or remove them?
I just started using PowerDVD Ultra to playback my HD-DVDs, and I’ve noticed that “Superman Returns” doesn’t have a menu (at least I cannot access it with PowerDVD nor the Xbox 360 player). PowerDVD Ultra turns on subtitles and there is not way to turn [...]

 
Adding a “Rip DVD” menu item to Beyond Media - OTA HD DVR
I remember reading this awhile ago, but forgot to mention it here. This is great “how-to” to include a “Rip DVD” option in your Beyond Media menu. With it you can add a DVD movie to DVD Library in a few easy steps [...]

BrentEvans: Video Walkthrough of Placeshifting Beyond TV

Brent Evans has a nice write-up and screencast of how to stream video from a PC, running Beyond TV. It cannot stream Live TV yet, but it’s still a nice and very welcome feature for Beyond TV users.

Help Build a Media Center Components Database - Chris Lanier’s Blog
I always thought sites like this would be very helpful to people looking to build a successful Home Theater PC (HTPC) as long as the site stays current. The biggest issue I see is maintaining a central database of components (hardware, software, drivers, versions, etc) [...]

With more “affordable” CableCARD Vista Media Center PCs coming out from the likes of HP and Dell the lucky folks over at Gizmodo and Engadget have been able to play with them, and are ready to share their experiences and thoughts with the rest of us.

Installing a Vista CableCARD Media Center PC (part 1): Fiasco!
Installing [...]

Hauppauge adds QAM support to the WinTV-HVR-1600 dual tuner card - Engadget HD
This is some pretty interesting news. Unfortunately, I doubt there will be the necessary drives needed to get QAM working with 3rd party PVR software like Beyond TV, Vista Media Center, Sage TV, GB-PVR, etc.
As with anything else there is a catch, the [...]

PhotoSync For Windows Home Server - Beta1- EdHolloway.com
Here’s a pretty snappy utility that can automatically upload your photos from Windows Home Server to your Flickr account. Hopefully, this can/will be extended to other services like Zooomr (my service of choice).
Some general features & notes:

PhotoSync will monitor your WHS Photos folder (or any sub folder you [...]

Here’s some pretty good hard drive deals from Fry’s (at least in the San Francisco Bay Area):

 Maxtor 500GB PATA or SATA - $109.99 (1 DAY ONLY)
Seagate 500GB FreeAgent Pro eSATA, Firewire, and USB 2.0 - $169.99 (Great for adding storage to your TiVo Series3)
Seagate 750GB PATA hard drive - $199.99