XBMC launched version 12.0 (codenamed Frodo) of its media center software today, bringing a ton of new features and opening up support to new platforms. As a longtime Plex user, this XBMC release look
Content is king, and so far Google TV is sorely lacking content. However, with the launch of the famed Xbox Media Center on Android, Google might have a chance in the battle for living rooms. The grou
<img src="http://www.crunchgear.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/remote.jpg">XBMC is the greatest media streamer of them all. That's fact, friend. But it has never had an official real life remote contr
<img src="http://www.crunchgear.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/xbmcios.png" />You can now install XBMC on your jailbroken iPhone and iPad. It’s available on Cydia, which is the secret hideout for Ap
<img src="http://www.crunchgear.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/xbmc10.jpg" />XBMC, the media center for Windows, Mac, and Linux, has reached the big 10 point oh. In and of itself that's a pretty big d
<img src="http://www.crunchgear.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/7254583_lg.jpg">Get thee to MacMall and pick up a 160GB AppleTV for $149. Don't worry about not getting updates - just install <a HREF="h
<img src="http://www.crunchgear.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/customLogo.png" />In the market for a media center PC? You might want to take a look at the new kid, Modified Konstructs. Modified just a
<img src="http://www.crunchgear.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/aeon3.jpg" />As far as XBMC forks go, Boxee certainly appears to have the most heat. It has VC money pouring in, flashy deals with conten
Think of the Myka ION as a nettop built for your HDTV. The little media streamer utilizes an 1.6 GHz Intel Atom 330 CPU and an NVIDIA ION GPU to provide your TV with quality high-definition content.
Apple TV update 2.3.1 came out last week – my Apple TV suddenly reset itself on Sunday and blew away my Boxee/XBMC installation – but fear not: it’s easy to fix. You just reinstall t
Hulu didn’t make any friends this week when the NBC-owned site succumbed to the pressure of content owners and had the content pulled from Boxee. Alec Baldwin wasn’t kidding when he said t
Supposedly TiVo is using an online survey to test users’ responses to a new interface. That’s a screen shot from it up there. Most interesting to me, as a non-TiVo user, is that BMW ad alo
We’ve touched on it before, but to recap: Back in the day when modding your Xbox was a criterion of geekdom, Xbox Media Center was king. Pictures, videos, file streaming, skinning, application l
I just wanted to remind my fellow Mac users that they really ought to be using Plex to play back all their movies. (And I do mean movies—a quick clip here and there, you’re best served by
The media hub once known as Xbox Media Player, then Xbox Media Center, then XBMC, then ported to Intel-based Macs and called OSXBMC is now known as Plex. The name change was announced at the weekend,
Flickr’d Formerly named Xbox Media Center, XBMC made the original Xbox useful long past its sell-by date, and it’s now been ported over to Mac OS X. Well, it’s been available for OS