Well, this past weekend, I finally decommissioned my Windows 7 Media Center Box. I’ve been a Windows Media Center user for about five years now and have worked with just about every version of Windows Media Center starting back with the Windows XP Media Center Edition. The reason that I have decided to toss my [...]
Okay, now, let’s get to the stuff that I have been promising since I began this series – the specifics of how I use my Mediasmart WHS to do the digital media and file storage tasks in my house. Before we begin, please note that to do all that I am going to cover here, [...]
As I alluded to in part one of this series, I really consider the HP Mediasmart line of Windows Home Servers to be a somewhat separate animal from the stock Windows Home Server product. The base Home Server is over 3 years old, is based upon a seven year old OS (Windows Server 2003), and [...]
I have been a Microsoft Windows Home Server User for a little more than 2 years. In that time, the vast majority of my experience has been centered on the Mediasmart line of servers from HP. I started with EX470 – the lowest end system that HP ever offered, equipped with an AMD Sempron 1.8 [...]
Ripping Blu-ray DVD’s are an entirely different ball of wax. For home theater purposes, we need to look at them a bit differently than we do for regular DVDs. First of all, there is the size element. While a regular DVD will take around 7 GB give or take on your hard drive, it is [...]
Copying DVDs is one of those things that most Home Theater enthusiasts want to do. You might want to copy your movies to a hard disk for any number of reasons. Perhaps, you want to put them on your laptop or some kind of portable video device. Another reason is that you might want all [...]