Anyone who has been around this site for a while probably knows that I openly support Linux. The fact that I learn best by tinkering makes this OS a natural fit for me. Program doesn’t work as advertised? Bust out the code and see what damage can be done. What’s the worst that could happen?? Fortunately, this wild abandon is […]
Read moreThe perfect extender! Is there one to satisfy us all? I doubt it, but based on recent reviews, I think there is lot of potential to improve upon existing designs that are in the marketplace today. File Format There are a million and one different ways to encode a video. I have alot of respect for communities that slice and […]
Read moreI recently reported here that the motherboard that I have been using in my frontend system for the last year or two has been acting up on me. Well, after RMAing it for the third time over the same issue, I have decided that enough is enough and replaced it. The problem that I ran into was that the old […]
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You may have recently seen or heard about a new upcoming device from ZeeVee called the ZvBox. The idea behind it is simple–connect your computer to the box via VGA, and connect it directly to the coax TV cable from any room in your house. Then tune to the Zv channel and you will see a high resolution of your […]
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If you remember what happened last month, there was a rather large fiasco caused by NBC for Vista Media Center users, where nobody running the operating system was able to record American Gladiators. Both NBC & Microsoft were quick to comment that the message was caused due to an error, and was completely unintentional. Microsoft respects the copy-protection flags of […]
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Ok ladies & gentlemen…as has been implied by our fearless leader, I have in my possession some fabulous extender devices: The D-Link DSM-330 Connected device, and the upcoming HP Media Center Connect Extender (c’mon, you didn’t think I would do a webinar without seeing the thing, did you?). So…with that being said, I’m taking each one through its paces, and […]
Read moreIt is amazing what can happen over the weekend. Get some yard work done, and of course have lots of time to evaluate and re-evaluate what direction I want to take for this whole digital home aspect. I am somewhat tied to the Microsoft platform because of my investment into CableCards. I would like to say QAM and OTA could […]
Read moreIn Lord Of The Rings epic fashion, I started on my journey to rip and catalog my DVD/Blu-ray library. The first step in this process is to decide which format you want your DVDs to be ripped in. There are several methods to do this and here are a few of the more common methods. 1. Rip an exact ISO […]
Read moreSome people take the phrase build log just a bit to seriously. I may be one of those people. Though in my case I was building with sheets of plywood rather than logs. The start to this round of building was installing a built-in desk to give me the desk space I want for working on various projects including testing […]
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It was a fine spring day. The sun was shining all day. The family got to spend a lot of time together. The little one is now asleep and it’s time to unwind. I grab myself a Dr. Pepper, and my wife and I sit down for a nice relaxing evening of tv shows. I reach for the remote and […]
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