So my first taste of freedom was installing Windows 7 on my Athlon 3200+ with ATI IGP. Vista performance on this "Designed for XP" laptop was miserable at best, downright crappy at the worst. Hulu barely performs and often stuttered on 480p content. If you can believe it, I could not even carry a webcam conversation without it stuttering horribly. […]
Read moreAfter getting EventGhost up and running to integrate PowerDVD 9 with SageTV, I took a look at Hulu Desktop. Integration was pretty straight forward as all of the keyboard commands were available in the software. I’m too lazy to write a plugin, so instead I pulled all the relevant XML from my save file, and you can just copy/paste it […]
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As you are likely aware of by now, the United States is about to go through a changeover from analog Over-The-Air (OTA) broadcasts to Digital. We at MissingRemote.com would like to make sure that all of our affected readers are prepared for this to happen. If you are receiving your TV signals OTA and if you are tuning them with […]
Read moreIt seems that these days, in one form or another, most of us have portable MP3 players. Whether they are 1 or 2 gig players or larger 120 gig players, audio only or video and touch screen, MP3 players are everywhere today, especially with the younger crowd. For a long time, I’ve been watching the MP3 player market waiting for […]
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The answer has been asked by many and presumed by even more, but ask the folks at Microsoft and they still stand strong around the Extender platform. With Linksys announcing their discontinuing of their Extender products, it leaves us guessing what’s to come, since Linksys was one of the original Extender partners for Microsoft. Are they simply discontinuing a 2 […]
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For those of you that are familiar with my writings, I often have a case of nostalgia. Having been involved in Home Theater PC’s for over 10 years now, I often reminisce at how this all started and where we are today. I think it was Alan’s blog about Start Menu’s that made me think about the plethora of Home […]
Read moreWhile I have not seen anything official yet, there are lots of rumors floating around right now that the show Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles is on the chopping block. This makes me very unhappy because it is one of the few shows that I’m actually interested in this season. What is making me even more unhappy is that the […]
Read moreWhich ever rental I pick out of the suggestions gets another entry in the OnAir GT giveaway! I won’t pollute your recommendations by giving out my personal preferences.
Read moreMy family and I have been on vacation for the last week visiting my mother-in-law. It’s been a great trip. We got to see lots of scenery, have lots of experiences, and in general, expose our daughter to lots of stuff she hasn’t seen before. Some of those things I could live without. What am I talking about? Commercials! After […]
Read morePrices and content of Comcast, MN and Verison FIOS, CA.
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