distantDVD version 0.05b with movie trailer support is now available for distantDVD and I want to publicly congratulate him on all his hard work. I’ve included a few screen shots from version 0.05b: Main Interface Movies Trailers B.Greenway

Well after my ‘The sad state of Mac HTPC front-ends’ post, I’m happy to report I’ve found my full-screen Video_TS launcher. As you know I’ve mentioned distantDVD here several times before, but the early versions only supported 1360×768 which made testing the app out on my projector somewhat difficult. Not to worry however as Tom [...]

Yesterday I ran a little experiment. I wanted to see what functionality the popular Mac HTPC front-ends offered through the eyes of a first time user. Obviously this took a bit of imagination as I’ve used them all in some degree or another. What I found was a bit disappointing. Basically starting from scratch I [...]

Earlier this week I ran across yet another media-center front end for the Mac and wanted to share a bit of what I discovered with you. MediaCentral has many of the features you’ve come to expect in media-center software including: DVD/video-file playback, movie trailer integration, iTunes functionality, live TV interface and photo viewing. Version 1.2 [...]

I just ran across a slick looking VIDEO_TS launcher named DistantDVD on our forums. The app has a nice clean dark look to it that would lend itself well to the home theater environment. distantDVD is a program that lets your organize, browse and watch your DVD collection, without having to find the DVD. Your [...]

Pretty clever if you ask me, Apple introduced a media center without actually having built one. The new iMac’s come bundled with Apple’s

10.4.1 Hit software update, and mentioned as well: Improvements This update offers many reliability and compatibility improvements. Here are just a few of the enhancements and improvements included: Mail and Address Book When typing immediately after clicking Reply in a Mail message, all characters typed before the Reply window appeared should now appear in the [...]

MacDailyNews is reporting a rumor that Sony may be working with Apple, on support for blu-ray, the PS3/iTunes rumor isn’t that far fetched. But what if there were more to the story than just some simple, albeit handy iTunes integration with the Play Station 3? Since we’re what-if-ing here, what are the chances the PS3 [...]

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