MythTV 0.25 Released!

It’s finally there.  As of late last night/early this morning, MythTV 0.25 is finally available officially.  After a mere “516 days (that’s 1 year, 4 months, 30 days)” according to the developers, a new version is available.  This update has been long awaited in the MythTV community and it sounds like a lot of work went into it.  I look […]

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MythTV 0.25-beta Released

It looks like the MythTV dev’s are sticking pretty close to their proposed release schedule.  Posted on the Mythtv home page is an announcement that the MythTV Beta is now available.  The proposed schedule indicated March 4 and the announcement was on March 5.  Not bad.  If this keeps up, we’ll see a new release of MythTV next month, at […]

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Epson PowerLite Home Cinema 3010e 3D Projector Reviewed

I recently heard that the trend of dedicated home theaters in new homes is going down.  That’s too bad.  But whether you have a dedicated room or not, Epson looks to have a nice entry level 3D projector. Epson’s 3D lineup also includes the step-up Home Cinema 5010 and its custom-market counterpart, the Pro Cinema 6010. The 3010 and 5010 […]

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MythTV Frontend for Android released on Market

I noticed an interesting email on the MythTV-Users mailing list today.  Apparently someone (Fredrik) has released an Android app for the MythTV Frontend.  I have not tested this myself and likely won’t because I don’t have an Android device, but for those that do this could be useful for you.  The one big drawback that I see at the moment […]

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Adobe Announces Plans To Abandon Flash On Linux

Well, I hope that all of you Linux users like to use Chrome.  It looks like Adobe is cutting off Linux Flash support after 11.2.  It appears that there is an API to do Flash support but right now only Google has implemented it.  It appears that Mozilla has previously stated that they will not support it on FireFox.  While […]

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MythTV Is Now Forked As Torc

Well this is interesting news.  It appears that one of the MythTV developers is splitting off the MythTV project with his own branch of code.  It look like the idea is to drop a lot of the legacy support in order to modernize the project more quickly and easily.  One of the things that I liked about MythTV is the […]

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Guide – MythTV Quick Tip – Reset the Painter

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I recently wrote about my experiences installing MythTV on my Windows laptop.  While it’s been working great, I recently ran into a problem and wanted to share the solution. While playing with some settings in the various menus – sometimes I just can’t help myself – I got myself into a pickle that I just couldn’t fix.  As it turns […]

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Boxee’s PC client sails permanently into the night

We’ve all heard of it before.  Many use it.  Now it looks like today you can’t get it for your PC.  Boxee’s software is now only available for their Boxee Box and similar devices.  I don’t use it but I think that more options are always good. Boxee announced back in December that its PC client would be shuttered, and the […]

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Is YouTube getting into the subscription service?

It looks like YouTube is pondering other ways to make money.  I’m curious if a subscription to a specific “channel” is something that you guys would pay for.  Personally, I don’t think that I will be getting in to this.  But you never know. At the D:Dive Into Media conference Tuesday, YouTube CEO Salar Kamangar gave his views on how […]

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Optoma HD8300 3D DLP Front Projector Reviewed

Optoma may be best known for their low price HD20/HD180 1080p projector.  This has been a great value projector for many people.  They are now showing a performance projector, the HD8300.  It appears to be another projector to look at if you want a little more than the HD20 offers.   In terms of connection options the HD8300 is rather […]

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