Dennis Schmitz

Member Since: June 5, 2007

Last Visit: October 11, 2007

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A Homebrew How-To: Picking the Perfect PC Tuner Card

By Dennis Schmitz on June 6, 2007 10:58 AM

The idea to build my own home theater box came to me one day as I hooked my new DLP HDTV up to the huge stack of components piled next to it. My stack had an audio amplifier, an aging Series 1 TiVo, an HD cable box, a DVD player, another DVD player with upsampling, an X-box, and a radio tuner. If you’ve ever hooked up a set of components like this, you know there are literally dozens of ways to wire it up and make it work halfway coherently with a multi-function remote. More »

Categories: Homebrew & DIY Windows PC & Media Center | Article's Raw Score: over 784 thousand | 1 Comment

Last Post: June 6, 2007 11:27 AM by Vicki Schmitz

A Brief Intro to Open Source Software

By Dennis Schmitz on October 24, 2007 9:40 PM

It's hard to get online and on the internet without hearing about Open source software . It's harder yet to figure out what it is. On one side you hear how it's nothing less than... More »

Categories: Homebrew & DIY Building & Hacking | Article's Raw Score: over 592 thousand | 1 Comment

Last Post: October 30, 2007 2:28 AM by Nickolas

Why I Didn't Waste Money On A Blu-ray (or HD-DVD) Drive

By Dennis Schmitz on July 16, 2007 8:10 AM

I have to admit, I went into the whole Blu-ray issue with an attitude. Among other things, it's a massive conspiracy to quash my Inner Tightwad. I'm cheap. I'm not an early adopter. I like my stuff to work the first time. I prefer function to style. And I don't like to pay for stuff that can be had for free.

Categories: Homebrew & DIY | Article's Raw Score: over 199 thousand | 1 Comment

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