Installing a wall mount 75 Samsung TV and want to hide the cable box behind the unit . So I need a IR box to install behind the unit to repeat the signal to the cable box than run a IR wire around to the front of the TV.

P.S. it needs to be I.R. so the Samsung remote will work no R.F. repeater
Any...

My Samsung tv needs replacing. There doesn't seem to be many tv's available with PC input now, but I don't use the 15 pin connection anyway. I use hdmi. But I do use the audio input from the PC.

Would there be any syncing problems if I found a tv without audio input, uséd hdmi and ran the...

I have recently purchased a nice 82 inch 4K HDTV. That's the good news.... The bad news inow I need to upgrade my MC7 infrastructure. I am looking for any recommendations on a good 4K graphics card. Any suggestions?

I bought a new Samsung 65 smart 4k TV from Costco this month model UN65RU740D. It caused me some headaches and I almost took it back. I figured out some work arounds and thought I would share to save other people headache.

Issue #1 - No HDMI signal detected on TV HDMI port with HTPC signal sent...

Yamaha RX465 HDMI though is stuck on creating connection issues

The AVR worked fine for a few years, then a HDMI though red dot lights up on the display when AVR is off the red light is on when AVR is on the red light goe’s off.

I don’t remember how this HDMI though got configured, I didn’t...

In a nutshell, if you use 6 or 7 channel surround modes they don't add much

Hello everyone,

I'm new to this forum, but not new to the concept of HTPC/Media Center, and I also work in IT. I still have my first HTPC, which is an Asus DAV A33 that I purchased used in late 2009.

It's getting time to retire it, so in the process I'm also assessing my overall home theater set...

Greetings! Not a pro with AV stuff, but trying to help the boss out with his video game store. He wants to demo our game systems on the TVs throughout the store. We've been reading about HDMI extenders and found out about the newest solutions HDMI over IP, where you can use your internet to extend...

My cable company uses smart-cards.

Is there an adapter that will allow me to use a Smart-card (pictured above) with a hdhomerun prime tuner with a M-Card type slot? (pictured bellow)

No audio from TV well for 10 seconds

When I turn the TV on the TVs volumne comes on for 10 seconds then mutes itself.

The Samsung TV is set to internal speaker.

I have the Yamaha 465RX AVR connected to the HTPC/DVR/TV all w/ HDMI cables
Then there’s a optical cable out of AVR directely into...

OK, So if you click under my name you will see the specs of my WMC7 machine. A year and a half ago I moved from a Comcast are to a Mediacom area and tried to stay using the WMC ecosystem that I had been using for ages... unfortunately it couldn't maintain signal on a regular basis and the wife was...

I am a new member to this forum, so please forgive what may seem to be a simplistic question.
I have several hundred DVDs as well as several hundred movies on the ten HDDs on my home PC which is running Win 7 Ultimate 64bit.
I want to rip the DVDs so I can sell the physical discs to free up storage...

I'm in the market for replacing my two splitters. Having some issues with a few channels but others are all just fine. Tried swapping CableCARDs, Tuning Adapters, and new Cables. I'd like to swap my splitters but really have no idea what's considered good. There's just too many to chose from!

I...

Does anyone know of hardware that takes in an hdmi signal and then streams that signal over a local network so that the audio and video can be used on a compatible portable device (Android tablet/phone, Windows Tab or iPad?). The unit must also provide hdmi passthrough so that I can still connect...

I have always ran dual monitors on my computer... so it was natural for me to want two displays on my HTPC.

I have my old cheapo 720p 37 and a new 55 LG

I like being able to watch one baseball game on one TV on mlb at bat... then another game on WMC... (and sometimes another on my tablet)

More...

Hi, first time poster here... I built my HTPC about 2 years ago and have had this problem but just lived with it.

I have an ivy based (i3-3225) HTPC myself using integrated graphics. it's connected to HDMI to a pioneer receiver SC1222 which then goes to the TV.

one of the things that's a pain...

Does anyone know of a suitable device for turning off peripheral devices when the PC enters sleep mode.

Hi guys, hoping someone can help?

I have a simple cable-card set up and split my audio separately from video out of the MC into amp/tv respectively as I was getting handshake/HDMI issues that were insurmountable. So, HDMI out of the media center, into the HDMI IN of my pioneer amp to the TV and...

Hello everyone

I'm new to this forum and I just built my first HTPC. I have a WMC remote and ir receiver in the living room with the PC, a xbox in the den with no remote currently ( just the paddle) and I just bought a ceton echo for the master bedroom. The remote in the living room does not power...

Has anyone been able to get the Microsoft media center remote to learn the volume commands from the Vizio remote?

I just bought the soundbar and love it, but having two remotes is a pain. I was just wondering if anyone else had experienced this and what you have done to remedy it.

thanks,
Eric

Well, I thought I finally figured out a way to split my HTPC to two different rooms. Was working fine until I realized my resolution was defaulting to 720.
I've running my HTPC with an Nvidia GT610 to a Sharp 70LE757. I'm actually splitting it to two different displays (two different rooms) to a...

Visio P502ui-B1E is out. Supposedly it has 4K 60 Hz on at least one input but that info is hard to uncover. Anybody else tempted to get one?