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Back in October we heard that forum member cakalapati was stopping his MediaSmart Server cable building operations, at least for a couple of months. He has recently announced that he is back in business with a new business name of VOV Technology so if you have been waiting to get a VGA cable for your [...]

Microsoft released the New Xbox Experience back in November, and I’ve been pleased with the Netflix integration and have watched a few movies and TV shows with good results. My Xbox is in the MediaSmartServer.net “batcave” (aka the basement) where I game, watch TV and movies, develop Add-Ins, and write these blog and forum posts. [...]

When the MediaSmart Server was first released, it didn’t take long for limitations and areas of improvement to be discussed amongst the Home Server community. One of the first improvements was to upgrade the memory from the stock 512MB, usually to 2GB. More adventurous users began looking to increase horsepower through higher clocked or multi-core [...]

Forum member Diehard, inventor of the Popcorn Hour media streamer in a server is at it again. This time he is showing us how to use a hacked PSP as a USB monitor for the MediaSmart Server. This would have been very handy recently for another forum member who accidentally disabled his LAN connection, and [...]

One side effect of the one year anniversary of the MediaSmart Server is that we are now in the time frame where our warranties are beginning to expire, especially for early adopters who purchased as soon as the MSS was available. HP provides a one year warranty on the MediaSmart Server, and a few months [...]