Items Tagged With av distribution

LinuxMCE is of course a open-source media centre distro.  But did you know you can use it as a home automation controller as well?  Other goodies are lurking under the bonnet too such as the integrated Asrerisk VoIP system, already pre-configured for many providers and phone hardware.  Read on for the overview of this amazing free system...

Keene Electronics have just announced their new Quattro.  Another product in the Keene Video over CAT5 family, this unit is like having four transmitters in a single box. It routes four separate AV inputs (S-Video + Stereo audio) to four CAT5 outputs and can be paired with a matrix switcher to give comprehensive any-to-any source switching...

Chris Carey has created a front end for watching MythTV recordings on the iPhone.  Check out Chris' site for a live demo of the software and watch the video after the jump...

We're big fans of Sonos and it's one of the very few items we've given our "Top Tech" award to - see our Long Term review.  So we're always excited when we hear some Sonos news and recently rumours are abound of new ZonePlayers incorporating 802.11n technology...

In his latest blog post, our Masked Installer reveals his inner thoughts on hard drive HiDef video media servers and what it's like to regularly work with 15 to 20 TB of his customers data...