Television

How To Choose Your Operating System for a HTPC Media Center PC

If you are considering building a Media Center PC you are probably getting overloaded by the choices of hardware and software available to you. The following how to will hopefully narrow down your direction and help you understand some of the primary concerns you should have when building a device to display Live and Recorded content on your Television.

To work well devices need to be built for this specific task this is why …

How To Review of Amazon Prime Instant Video Free Offerings

If you are considering cutting the cord and moving to a combination of Antenna and Streaming Services to replace your expensive Cable or Dish subscription then you are probably trying to find out what is available for free.

Now obviously you could stream lots of content if you are willing to pay through the nose. There is even one LEGAL service out there that will stream Movies to your home while they are still …

How To Choose the Right Roku Player for your TV

If you are considering buying a streaming media device for your televisions so you can watch your online content someplace other than your phone or computer there are a few different options out there. One of the more popular companies making Streaming Devices is Roku but even within their product line you may have some confusion about which device is best for you.

We are going to look at some of the available features …

How To Overcome Media Center Build Fright when Cutting The Cord

If you have been considering cutting the cord and going without cable TV you have probably experienced Build Fright. This is a situation where you begin looking into options and there are so many different ones that don’t seem to have the same features that you get a little scared you will spend your money on things that will soon be outdated and useless.

The first thing you should understand is yes this is …

How To Setup a TV Tuner Card for your Media Center

There are a variety of ways to watch TV but if you are dropping cable and moving to over the air antenna broadcasts it can be a serious benefit to setup a Media Center Computer  that can record shows that you might miss.

Unlike Cable TV where you can basically find reruns of any show at any time of the day because there really isn’t much new content on Cable or Dish anymore… If …

How To Compile a Collection of TV Shows and Movies for Free

Gone are the days of the VCR where you could put in a tape and record your favorite TV show or Movie and watch it later… or maybe not.

Today with the technology of Television and Movies moving towards online services like Netflix, Hulu and Amazon many homes are upgrading their televisions and home networks to play on demand television and movies.

Unfortunately with that comes a cost. You have the initial first cost of …

How To Watch The Super Bowl in HDTV For Free

If you love sports you are probably planning to watch the Super Bowl next month but if you have a basic Cable TV Package you most likely don’t get HD Channels. Even if you do have an HD Package from your Cable Provider or on a Dish Subscription that HD provided over their network is normally not full 1080p HD. It may be called 1080p but the compression that they use to get …

How To Stream Live Cable TV with Sling TV $20 A Month Service

So you have been thinking about your cable bill and cutting the cord but you’re not sure you want to go without some of your favorite networks on cable tv.

Dish has a new offering called Sling TV that might help.

The service is expected to launch relatively soon and be available for subscribers that have broadband connections. This means you will likely still have a bill from your cable company but you won’t be …

How To save money on your Cable TV Package

In this how to we are going to cover some of the options that can save you money with your Cable TV Television Subscription Package. Most of the options will be available whether you are on the larger systems like Comcast, Cox or Time Warner and also on smaller regional systems.

When it comes to Television Broadcasts it seems much of America has moved to Pay Subscription Service. This can mean buying service from …

How To Setting Up a XBMC and Media Center Solution Difficulty Overview

If you have been following some of my How Tos in the past few weeks you probably saw me talking about different solutions for setting up a Media Center for your home using Windows Media Center, XBMC Kodi and a variety of different hardware devices.

I wanted to go over some of the problems that I have been confronted with so none of you spend vast amounts of hours to only find the same …