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OCTOBER 2006 MAXIMUMPC BEYOND TV 4.3 Snapstream’s Beyond TV is the closest thing to a Tivo we’ve tested. Unlike Media Center 200 ...

38 MAXIMUMPC OCTOBER 2006 Assembling a PC for the living room is a little different than bolting together a power rig for gaming ...

40 HOME THEATER PC HOME THEATER PC HOME THEATER PC HOME THEATER PC MAXIMUMPC OCTOBER 2006 Now that your HTPC is assembled, it’s ...

42 6 CONFIGURE BEYOND TV You won’t realize how powerful Beyond TV is until you confi gure it to suit your enter- tainment needs. ...

44 MAXIMUMPC OCTOBER 2006 HOME THEATER PC HOME THEATER PC HOME THEATER PC HOME THEATER PC Creative’s DTS-610 encoder is an unusu ...

46 MAXIMUMPC OCTOBER 2006 HOME THEATER PC HOME THEATER PC HOME THEATER PC HOME THEATER PC WHAT ABOUT NEXT-GEN DISC FORMATS? Now ...

48 MAXIMUMPC OCTOBER 2006 HOME THEATER PC HOME THEATER PC HOME THEATER PC HOME THEATER PC WHY NO WATER? Since we’re as concerned ...

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5 MAMAMAXIMXIMXIMXIMUUUUMMPPPCCOCTOBER 2006 Now slightly faster than SneakerNet! Powerline networking is one of those ideas tha ...

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Create your own summer blockbuster Hollywood war movie using in-game footage. It doesn’t get any easier than this. Fire up Battl ...

how (^2) ImprovIng your pc experIence, one step at a tIme 64 MAXIMUMPC october 2006 When the demo’s playing, hitting the Q key g ...

how (^2) ImprovIng your pc experIence, one step at a tIme By default, your captures will be saved to the C:\fraps\ folder. If yo ...

What would a modern war movie be without slow motion? When the APCs open up on two hapless Marines running down a hill in our mo ...

Ask the Doctor 68 MAXIMUMPC OCTOBER 2006 how 2 IMPROVING YOUR PC EXPERIENCE, ONE STEP AT A TIME I had a PC some time back that p ...

r & d BREAKING DOWN TECH —PRESENT AND FUTURE 72 MAXIMUMPC OCTOBER 2006 F ew situations in life suck as much as losing a hard ...

Hardware Autopsy diately transmit a warning message to the host controller. A read/write head that has dropped a few nanometers ...

I f you think getting high-definition (HD) content onto your PC is going to be as easy as adding a drive, install- ing the softw ...