A twofer today….

I’ve been talking a lot today about Media Center Extenders and how great they are and with the advent of cable cards and the possibility of the Direct TV dual tuner USB box, that it would be awesome to be able to have a single, central location for all your DVRing needs. A central storage point, no more needing to have HD DVR’s, cable boxes, or any other “rented” hardware at each and every single tv in your home.

HP has taken this concept and went a step further adding Media Center capabilities directly in their TV’s. So no instead of having a TV + a $250 Linksys DMA-2100 or 2200 (or Xbox 360 or Dlink DSM-750) Media Center Extender, you just have a tv with all the media center extender capabilities built directly into the tv.

So now I wonder if that might possibly be the next tv I get for my bedroom?

- Josh

So to try in win myself a free copy of WHS I am posting up here to inform all my readers (the few that there are) about the free copy of WHS. For those of you that do not know about WHS and what it can do for you, well here’s your chance to find out. 

I am currently running WHS myself with a tad over 3TB of disk storage. Just a little screen capture to show my setup.

I use it to back up all of my media, photos, music, documents, ect…. The reason I chose to start using WHS because of all the great add-ons/plug-ins. Currently my WHS box doubles as my email server, my File Server, My Web Proxy, and my off site backup.

One of my favorite plug-ins is Jungle Disk it allows me to make nightly backups to Amazon’s S3 service so that I get off site backups of all my important documents, photos, family videos, ect.. You can had over to We Got Served for more plug-in info, and remember to check out home server hacks for the latest tips, tricks, and hacks on WHS.

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