Posted in General on Jul 11th, 2008 1 Comment »
I purchased one Media Center Extender for our bedroom that we use quite a bit. I am wanting to put one in the living room so that I don’t have to connect the Media Center directly to the TV. While researching this I realized that I couldn’t add my music or pictures to the extender [...]
Posted in General on Mar 19th, 2008 No Comments »
I just purchased and installed a DMA2100. I must say I am impressed. I was a little nervous since I shelled out $230 for this thing. The playback is smooth and it is very cool to be able to watch recorded TV and my movies in our bedroom. I had to disable the Vista firewall [...]
Posted in General on Mar 11th, 2008 No Comments »
When I first started my Media Center project I had setup a Windows dynamic volume to store all the movies. As I have previously posted, I purchased a 500GB MyBook to expand my space. After the USB/eSATA debacle, I discovered that Western Digital had designed the MyBook to spin down after 10 minutes of inactivity. [...]
Posted in General on Jan 9th, 2008 1 Comment »
Recently I needed to add more storage to my movie drive on my Media Center. I purchased a MyBook Home edition instead of an internal drive. I first tried to connect the drive via USB. I then discovered that Windows doesn’t let USB drives be converted to dynamic disks which are necessary for a [...]
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