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This week on the show Garry and I talk through the tech news of the last week. We talk Microsoft adding Flash in to IE 10 in Windows 8 and...

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Amazon’s Kindle Fire HD is now available in the UK (plus Germany, France, Italy, Spain and Japan). The Kindle Fire HD has been on sale for a while in the...

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Twitter have released its official Twitter app for Windows 8 and Windows RT. When Windows 8 launched Microsoft said Twitter would be bringing out a Windows Store Twitter app and...

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Today I have put out an update for Media Center Health Monitor that will alert you to problem with recordings, disk space etc via Twitter. So as well as the...

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It’s been a long time in development but the final version of MediaPortal 1.3.0 has been release today. The new version has the new great looking Titan skin which is...

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The OpenELEC team have released the 5th Release Candidate of OpenELEC an embedded version of XBMC. This latest release fixes issues from the RC4 release as well as including bug...

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Channel 4 have updated the Android version of the 4oD app adding in a sign in option (as they did with the iOS version). If you sign in you can...

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It’s patch Tuesday and Microsoft have issued an Firmware update for the Surface. The update has a fix for the Wi-Fi connectivity problem that I have seen many times. When...

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DVBLogic have an iOS app for viewing TV on an iPad or iPhone from a DVBLink server and it uses server side transcoding to get the stream working on iOS....

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Microsoft have announced that there is an update for Internet Explorer 10 in Windows 8 and Windows RT that will enable Flash content to run by default. This means that...

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Google have announced they have worked with Netflix to bring Netflix to ARM based Chromebooks using HTML5. Currently Netflix use Microsoft’s Silverlight technology for its web site and this would...

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I had an email from a TDL reader with a problem that Windows Media Center would not record saying not enough disk space despite there being plenty available. I have...

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Ferrari by Logic3 make some great audio equipment, I have reviewed some of their headphones and sound systems in the past and always been impressed with the sound quality and...

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Just a quick post to say that My Memories for Windows Media Center the screen saver for Media Center that works on extenders has be released for the Media Center...

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Google have updated the Android version of the Chrome Browser with improved font clarity and stability fixes. This is addition to the performance and audio updates of the last update....

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Channel 5 have updated the Demand 5 app for Windows 8 and Windows RT. The update fixes a problem with the app crashing after 24 hours, whether anyone actually watches...

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The fantastic MediaMonkey app that was recently ported over to Windows RT/ Windows 8 has just been updated. MediaMonkey is a great app for managing and tagging your music collection...

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Long-time readers will remember Media Center Health Monitor  an application and service that monitored the state of your Windows Media Center system that I first developed back in 2007. It monitors...

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The My Movies team are looking for testers for the next version of My Movies for the Mac. The new OS X version has the option to store meta-data for...

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If you have been using Windows Media Player / Windows Media Center for any length of time, you will know that WMP is a bugger for overwriting your hi-res Folder.jpg...

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Skype for iOS has been updated to version 4.6. Skype say there is a “Beautiful new calling experience” which when I tested it looked like it has a cleaner UI...

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This weeks on the podcast Jason and I are joined by Daniel Vieira who is filling in for Garry while he is away. We have a busy show for you; We...

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TuneIn Radio the service for listening to radio station on your device has just had a refresh of the iPad version. The updated iOS version has a new live screen...

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On this week’s podcast (out later today) we talked about media players for Android device and one of the ones we talked about was MX Player. MX Player will play...

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The DVBLink addin for Outlook we told you about recently is now in public beta. The addin turns Outlook’s calendar in to a full featured EPG for DVBLink and can...

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Tesco have launched a TV and movie streaming service for Tesco Club Card members called ClubCard TV. Using your Clubcard number you can create an account and then have free...

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I have an OrigenAE M10 HTPC case which has a SoundGraph IR/VFD unit – Model: VF310 15c2:0036. This is the LCD display on the front of the HTPC case. Before...

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We don’t get a lot of new development for Windows Media Center but there is a new application that has been developed called My Memories for Windows Media Center. The...

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Google have updated the Chrome Browser for iOS. The update adds a long press action to the back button that will give you access to any page in your tab...

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Recently I switched my Raspberry Pi XBMC build to XBian and last night there was an update for the latest version that fixes audio popping issues. The Raspberry Pi has...

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Sonos’ PLAYBAR sound bar system that was announced last month is now available from Sonos.com. The sound bar connects to a TV or receiver via a single optical cable and will...

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Last month we told you about a movie app for Windows 8 and Windows RT called Movie Premier that gives you a nice visual front end to your movie collection....

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On the BBC Internet blog the BBC have announced they are bring BBC iPlayer to Windows Phone 7.5 and Windows 8. In the post the BBC say they have signed...

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Last month Opera announced it was switching to from its own rendering engine to a Webkit based browser engine and today it has released the first beta of their Android...

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The 10th edition of the Raspberry Pi magazine The MagPi has been released. The online magazine recently raised money via a Kickstarter campaign to make a physical magazine, you can...

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Microsoft’s Surface RT may not exactly setting the world on fire in terms of units sold despite in my option being a great device but part of that has to be...

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ITV have just updated the iOS version of the ITV Player app to version 2.2.1. This update is pretty minor and contains bug fixes and branding changes. It's interesting to...

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Argus TV is an advanced rule based scheduling system for recording TV. It run as a server and it has clients for multiple platforms, it can using MediaPortal's TV Services...

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Our friends over at The Centre for Computing History who put on a fantastic display at our users group last year have recently announced they plan to move to a...

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Welcome to the first show of 2013! We have a busy show for you, we are catching up on the news from the last couple of weeks including the Media Center Guide data issues that are plaguing Windows Media Center users in the UK, tablet comparisons, why the Surface is the device for me but Windows Phone isn't, VLC, XBMC, DVBLink updates, Ceton updates and we have the results of TDL Gadget of the Year 2012.

We also look forward to CES 2013 starting next week where we will be live at the show so follow me on Twitter , Google+ and Facebook for the up to date info and subscribe to our RSS feed to keep up with the news.

You can join us Tuesday 8pm UK time in the chat room for the live stream of the recording of the show and you can watch the video of the recording on YouTube

The TDL Show is brought to you by DVBLogic, makers of the DVBLink range of products.  Get the free trial and see how it can expand the use of your Windows Media Center system and watch live and recorded TV on the Raspberry Pi, iPhone, Android and Windows Phone

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Links for this week:

Media Center Guide data issues persist

Samsung to unveil the Smart TV Evolution Kit at CES

The Digital Lifestyle CES 2013 Preview

Why Windows Phone isn't for me

Raspbmc Release Candidate 2 for the Raspberry Pi

CloudMuzik brings Google Music to Windows Phone 8

My Movies for Android updated to version 1.92

DVBLink TV Server for NETGEAR ReadyNAS x86 models released

Why Microsoft's Surface RT is the right device for me

VLC Kickstarter project for Windows Store app meets its funding target

First impressions of the Google Nexus 4

OpenELEC 3.0 Beta 6 released

New version of DVBLink for the Boxee Box released

DVBLogic release DVBLink for SynologyNAS

XBMC 12 Frodo – Release Candidate 2

Ceton Echo update address early adopter issues

Mail, Calendar, People and Messaging apps in Windows 8/RT updated

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