Tom’s Networking, the networking part of Tom’s Hardware, has this round-up/review of 3 devices: ActionTec, Netgear and SMC. The verdict:… Read more Tom’s Networking Tests First HomePlug 1.0 Devices

I just discovered the BBTI AirStar HD5000 (for what it’s worth, the Technisat site looks like it just supports DVB… Read more Another HD/SD ATSC/QAM card: AirStar HD5000

I’ve been capturing transport streams from my Motorola DCT-6412 DVR with VideoLAN. Once captured, I’d use something like MPEG2Repair to… Read more How NOT to capture transport streams

Another excellent tool, supported and discussed in AVSForum is HDTVtoMPEG2. Note that it’s not really good anymore as a converter… Read more And then there’s HDTVtoMPEG2

See AVSForum for How to record via IEEE 1394 (Firewire) to Windows XP.

What’s the difference between PS and ES? Both are referenced in VideoLAN and the assumption is the reader knows what… Read more PS vs ES, DVDs: VOBs and IFOs

The federal government does some good work at time, despite the best efforts of our politicians! The Library of Congress… Read more Compendium of digital formats

This Afterdawn forum entry answers a lot of questions about DVD authoring (see the Wikipedia entry here.) Note that it… Read more Answering questions re: DVD authoring

Been looking for TV capture cards to add to my home-built PC and I thought I’d HD capability to it.… Read more HD capture cards