Many screens, home networking and remote control get easier, plus Casio revolutionizes high-speed photography. Read more

The youngest member of Hiper's slimline series of HTPCs now comes with a pre-installed micro-ATX motherboard. Read more

We've collected some of the most useful, functional and less publicized software media players available. Read more

Does unplugging the USB cable untangle your music or tie you down even more? Read more

Intel's DHCAT tool is supposed to assess the media-handling capabilities of PCs. We've worked with it quite a bit now. Here are some new tests and findings that may surprise you. Read more

We look at heat output from older model video cards and AVerMedia's new M780 combo card. All generate heat, but card temperatures aren't everything when it comes to TV card heat. Read more

Toshiba is trying to give customers an incentive to buy a HD-video player despite the ongoing conflict between the competing HD-video formats Blu-ray and HD-DVD. Read more

Intel's Digital Home Capabilities Assessment Tool (DHCAT) was designed to evaluate multimedia hardware performance. We test our System Builder AMD- and Intel-based HTPCs with it. Read more

With the simple and sleek K3, Samsung goes head to head with the iPod Nano- and also takes a side swipe at it with the do-it-all T9. Read more

We've built low cost ($1,004) and high cost ($3,299) Media Center PCs. Today we discuss our experience with the builds and offer some righteous recommendations. Read more