Play .MKV’s in Windows Media Center (WMC)

For a long time I had resisted converting my DVD and Blu-Ray disks into any other format because I didn’t want to lose any quality.  I had lived by this rule for a long time, and thankfully companies like QNAP and Thecus came to my storage rescue.  However, the day has come where the cost of storing all the extra garbage that comes along with these movies has opened my eyes to benefits conversions.  With that, I have began converting my movie collection to a format that allows me to lose all the excess fat, but keep my movie loss-less. Read More…

When you are on the go, sometimes having the multimedia connectivity you want isn't always available to you.  When I travel, I like to bring my laptop with me wherever I go and there is nothing better than sitting in a hotel room late at night with my laptop hooked up to their TV watching the movies I bring with me.  There has also been plenty of times when I tried to sync three different videos running to three different TV's for a presentation booth.  Unfortunately, my work laptop does not have an HDMI port built-in, and I hate traveling with more than one laptop.  Luckily, StarTech has a solution that they think can give me the ability to travel light and connect my work laptop to any to type of monitor/TV.

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If you are like me, you like to take advantage of everything your devices can do.  I overclock my pc's, my blenders, and like to watch movies on my iPod.  The wonderful features of these devices really are limited only to your skill set.  Finding the movies you want to watch on your next plane ride is easy, getting them on your iPod may not be.  That is where one simple free utility and iTunes comes into play. Read More...