George L. Schmauch Jr.

[George L. Schmauch Jr.]

That would change the device in Windows between the X-fi and the ATI card, right?  That does sound good to me, so if you know what kind of Googling I should do for such an app, I’m all ears.

But, what I’m actually talking about is switching the source on the receiver, since I’ll need to change from HDMI video and audio via the ATI card to HDMI video on the ATI and X-fi audio, which will be plugged into another audio input on the receiver.

My thoughts are:

1.  Get my butt up and hit a button the receiver
2.  Program a button on the remote to switch audio inputs
3.  Program a new activity with the only change being to swap the audio input and NOT start SageTV

I think #2 is going to be the easiest and most logical to deal with.

[George L. Schmauch Jr.]

My Antec Fusion has a white LED for power.  While I do like it, it’s far too bright.  Green or blue would be nice, again, as long as they aren’t super bright.  When you look at them straight on (or any angle), they should not be blinding.  Some sort of filter should be in place to diffuse the light.  Additionally, if the room is completely dark, the LED shouldn’t light up a 6 foot section in front of the case or illuminate the couch across the room.  ;D

[George L. Schmauch Jr.]

What’s a V…C…R…???

Vancouver Canucks…  what’s the R?

[George L. Schmauch Jr.]

When you consider families with 3 or 4 people in the house, all of TV-watching age, it all starts to make some sense.  It does still seem a little high, but not as outrageous as it did originally.

[George L. Schmauch Jr.]

That sounds ridiculous.  Did they include online videos in those numbers?  Unless more than half the country is out of work, how can people possibly watch TV that much during the week?  The only other thing I can think of is that there’s a huge spike on Saturdays and Sundays.

[George L. Schmauch Jr.]

I guess no one else watches that show.  I know I don’t.  Perhaps that’s what he’s been up to all this time…  catching up on missed TV.  😉

[George L. Schmauch Jr.]

[quote=”Meester.Rip”]
Been there many times. But I found it was very easy this year to figure out which shows were easy to dump before the networks decided which ones to cancel and some others, like Castle and The Mentalist just feel like I’m watching a rerun each week and they were easy to drop.
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I’ll watch anything Nathan Fillion is in.  He’s just a great actor, so I couldn’t possibly stop watching Castle.  I haven’t started watching the latest season of The Mentalist, but I really enjoyed it last season.  The lingering story of Red John has me very intrigued as to how that’s going to progress.

[George L. Schmauch Jr.]

I haven’t seen any of this, so maybe it’s specific to WMC?  (Edit:  Noticed that Crim did pretty much say that.)  Maybe it was a recent update or something?  Have you tried uninstalling any updates?  Feel free to come to the green side that is SageTV.  😉

[George L. Schmauch Jr.]

Did anyone read about [url=http://popwatch.ew.com/2010/11/05/the-walking-dead-google-map/]this[/url]?  Apparently, some fan of the comic put together a complete list of events and places from the series on Google Maps.  Note, if you don’t want spoilers, you should skip the map.

What do you mean by 12 graphic novels?  According to that link above, there are 78 issues from the comic series.  I’m clueless about the series itself and comics, so maybe it’s just a terminology thing for me.

[George L. Schmauch Jr.]

[quote=”RehabMan”]
TV going from standby to on.  Also same for AVR — standby to on.  TV/AVR are on. HTPC was always on.  Media Center running full screen, but all I see is black screen.  I think if I move the mouse, I see the mouse pointer, but that’s it.  Ctrl+Alt+Del, then see blue Ctrl+Alt+Del screen, then ESC to get back to full screen Media Center.  Everything happy after that.
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This might be an EDID issue.  Try [url=http://software.thydzik.com/hdmion-a-solution-to-loss-of-dvi-video-epid-signal-on-hd-tvs/]this hdmiOn tool[/url] and see if that has any effect.

[George L. Schmauch Jr.]

Are you running the latest drivers for your onboard graphics?  (I’m assuming that’s how your TV is connected, since you didn’t list a GPU.)

Just to be clear, it’s not that the TV is in standby or off, right?  The TV is actually on, but the Windows screen is black?

[George L. Schmauch Jr.]

Maybe it’s the Harmony One then.  I use the 890 and absolutely love it.

[George L. Schmauch Jr.]

I’m going to be the dissenting opinion here and say that it may be your drive speed.  Use an I/O monitor (Process Explorer is a good one) to keep a log of disk activity so that you can see if that really is the culprit.  You can also check network activity using that, so you may be able to determine exactly where the issue is.  If WHS is moving a lot of data across your drives, then the disk speed will certainly impact performance.  But, if it’s fairly balanced (each drive with identical free space) and you have a good amount of free space (so you aren’t hitting the OS drive for temporary storage and it’s not constantly rebalancing), then the drive extender tech shouldn’t be causing you issues.

I do agree that it could be network drivers causing this, however.

[George L. Schmauch Jr.]

First off, this was done by the community, not SageTV themselves.  (Although, to be fair, they do generally give out loads of assistance when the developers ask for it.)  Android will probably be added later, but since this is being developed by one of the community users, he started with the Apple market.

Second, the benefit is for people who aren’t always at home to watch TV or don’t have a TV in every room.  This allows them to bypass a full computer when they may only have their phone or if they don’t normally bring a computer with them on the train to work.  The response to the plugin has been overwhelming and the developer was shocked, so clearly there’s a great demand for this.  The kitchen might be another nice place to stream to your iPad for cooking shows or if you have the type of family which prefers to watch TV at the dinner table instead of talk.

Sometimes it’s tough to see beyond our own uses for technology.

[George L. Schmauch Jr.]

Seriously?  You prefer it that much over the Harmony?  I have trouble picturing myself choosing that over my Harmony remote.  (Granted, I don’t have that option since I’m using SageTV, but I digress.)  Even after going through the entire review, while I was admittedly impressed, it just didn’t seem like something I’d want to use.

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