XPS 420 & Radeon ATI HD2600 XT – Choppy DVD Playback

I got my XPS 420, took an image of HDD (32 bit OEM OS) and installed Vista Ultimate x64, downloaded and installed all the drivers from support.dell.com and then also updated newer drivers for the video and network cards and updated the firmware on the ATI Digital Cable Tuner.   Everything that I’ve tested so far [...]

Dell XPS 420

I finally decided to buy a Dell XPS 420 desktop computer this weekend.  Dell is running a great deal for Mother’s Day; $350 off XPS 420 systems.  I’m not a mother, but who cares right?  I can get the configuration that I want cheaper than I can get with my Employee Purchase Program discount mainly [...]

Hyper-V Questions

During the 24 Hours of Windows Server 2008: Part 3 webcast today, I got a couple of my virtualization questions answered.   Question: Is Server 2008 32 bit suppoted as a VM in Virtual Server 2005 R2 SP1 or VPC 2007? What about the VMAdditions? It seems that Server 2008 performance as a VM on VS 2005 [...]

Zune Support for DVR-MS Video without Third-party software

 Updated 11/14/07 – This post was written for Zune Marketplace 1.0.  The new Zune Marketplace software that was released on 11/13/07 has been completely re-written and these registry entries should not be performed on the new software. The Zune was designed to only support Windows Media Video (.mwv) files natively on the Zune hardware itself.  However, [...]

Transcoding DVR-MS video for the Zune

One of the coolest features of the Zune is the ability to watch video and when coupled with Windows Media Center content is limitless. The problem is the Zune currently only supports Windows Media Video (.wmv) at 320×240 resolution, natively. In addition, the Zune does supports MPEG4 (.mp4, .m4v or .mov) and H.264 (.mp4, .m4v [...]

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