George L. Schmauch Jr.

[George L. Schmauch Jr.]

BTW… wanted to chime in and thank you guys, as well.  I had been fighting the same issue for over a month and forgot about that setting.  Turns out that CCC resets the pixel format when you upgrade your drivers and it apparently doesn’t save that particular setting to the profile.  In turn, I went in and named the profile using the correct pixel format, so I wouldn’t forget next time.  Also, I’d like to gripe about how difficult it is to even get to these settings!

[George L. Schmauch Jr.]

This is usually due to a USB device waking the computer up.  If you’re on Windows 7, you can change each device’s setting so that it is not allowed to wake the computer.  The usual culprits are mice and keyboards which aren’t behaving nicely.  Obviously, this will cause issues if you actually DO want those devices to wake the computer.

[George L. Schmauch Jr.]

Feel free to Google the software’s name…  1fu//i@  😉

[George L. Schmauch Jr.]

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What irks me is that while many quality shows get cancelled, lots of mediocre programs seem to survive.[/quote]

It’s all based on the Nielsen ratings, so whatever those–supposedly representative–households are watching, that’s what stays on the air.  It’s ridiculous.

[quote]I’ll never understand why all of the networks want to put up their best shows in the same time slots on the same night against each other.
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My understanding is that those days are the most expensive for advertising, so they WANT to put their “best” shows up against the other networks’ best, on the best nights.  It simply keeps the advertising revenue up, which is what helps pay for the shows, which dictates how much of a budget the show gets.  Again, that’s how I understand it works, but I could be wrong.

[George L. Schmauch Jr.]

[quote=”Mikinho”]
[quote=”shadymg”]
i’ll just wait for y’alls reviews of the new shows before i waste my hard drive space…so keep em coming! 🙂 wtf is Terriers about?
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Totally wrong mentality.  Record everything and buy more hard drives to hold it longer.
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ROFL!  Can’t really argue that, given my previously mentioned 400-some recorded episodes of Law & Order.  But, I decided to alleviate that “buy more drives” issue with tons of storage from the beginning.  Now, I’m just refusing to buy more drives until they shrink them.  I actually have 3 spare 1TB drives sitting around, but won’t install them.  Ideally, I want to slowly replace each 1TB drive with a 2-platter 2TB drive.

[George L. Schmauch Jr.]

[quote=”shadymg”]
i’ll just wait for y’alls reviews of the new shows before i waste my hard drive space…so keep em coming! 🙂 wtf is Terriers about?
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My biggest issue is how quickly these shows get cancelled.  I can live with a comedy being cancelled, since you haven’t invested much in it and most episodes stand on their own.  But, when there’s a longer story arc in play like most dramas or sci-fi shows, a cancellation really ticks you off.  Hence why The Event is being recorded, but not watched initially.  The other new shows are more comedic than drama.  Although, I really hope No Ordinary Family does well, since it could be a nice replacement for Heroes.

[George L. Schmauch Jr.]

[quote=”Meester.Rip”]
I’ve seen a couple commercial for “Chase” that make it look worthy of checking out the pilot. And there is another one from Jerry Bruckheimer that I have on a list. I think it might be Blue Bloods.
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Bruckheimer is involved in Chase, so I’m not sure if he’s on another one, as well.    It sounded…  familiar… to me, so I decided to pass on it.  If it does well and people start raving about it, I might be persuaded, though.  I think Blue Bloods is doomed already.  I practically ruled it out just for the fact that Tom Selleck was in it.  I was never a Magnum PI fan and never really cared for any of his movies… except–maybe–Runaway (with Gene Simmons), which I only watched because of the Sci-Fi aspect and Simmons.

[George L. Schmauch Jr.]

[quote=”brent”]
Are there any new shows worth recording in your opinion?

I’m running through the Series PRemiere previews again tonight and curious if theres anything that looks worth a look.
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I went back and bolded the new shows I’m going to check out.  This was based on watching previews of the show, not simply the descriptions I read online.

[George L. Schmauch Jr.]

[quote=”Meester.Rip”]
I was checking my settings and I see that Castle and several other programs are set to record tonight yet they all say they are repeats. In the settings I have it set to new episodes only. Any idea on what is going on?

Thanks.
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I assume you’re using MC, since my SageTV setup noted that these were repeats and episodes I had watched, so it didn’t schedule them to record.  I know SageTV gets the data from Zap2it.  Where does MC get it from?  Also, how often does it check for the repeat status?  I’m flying blind here, but any chance it wasn’t listed as a repeat when MC first scheduled it to record, but later that “repeat” info was added and MC didn’t react to the new info?

[George L. Schmauch Jr.]

[quote=”jennyfur”]
Arrggh. Way to go and make me dread getting to SG-U. Over the past few months I’ve been watching the entire SG-1 series (about to start season 8 and Atlantis concurrently) and planned to watch SG-U when finished. But good god, Voyager was the only Star Trek related thing I’ve ever hated. I’d purposely avoided reading anything about SG-U as to not spoil it so I didn’t even know it had a Voyager-like premise until now. Guess it’s better that I found out beforehand though. Now it will likely just end up as one of the dozens of things on my Netflix list that linger for years without getting watched (that’s what happens when you’ve been a member since 2001).
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Sorry to have “ruined” it for you.  Hopefully I can still salvage it.  Let’s put it this way, they’re on a ship they don’t know how to navigate since it was built by the Ancients.  Hence, they’re sort of lost, like Voyager.  (This ends the similarity.)  The “crew” is not an SG team, but a group of people who managed to escape “something” (to avoid any spoilers for you) and take refuge on the ship.  So, there’s quite a bit of internal fighting (if you want to make a comparison to the Maquis crew joining Voyager, it’s a BIG stretch) and lots of character development, a la BSG.  So, they’re trying to figure out how get control of the ship and get home… again, the only real similarity to Voyager.

I’ll admit that I had very low expectations for SGU when I read the storyline, followed by the reviews, and people’s comments and comparisons.  However, I quickly got beyond that after the 2nd episode and was enjoying it quite a bit.  I was very upset when I finished the 1st season and had to wait.

[George L. Schmauch Jr.]

Still just staff members talking here.  ;D    Need more input!  …from the people who really matter.

[George L. Schmauch Jr.]

My interpretation was that when you turn on ESVP, the software will quietly disable unsupported features, including resolutions, which is why I got a little concerned about trying to enable a mode which was disabled.

[George L. Schmauch Jr.]

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UPDATED:  New firmware enables multichannel PCM output on the HD300.

http://www.geektonic.com/2010/09/sagetv-hd300-review-update-multi.html
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You’re a little late.  😉  From the previous page…

[quote=”babgvant”]
A firmware update was released tonight that addresses the multi-channel PCM issue.  Non Dobly/DTS multi-channel formats are output as multi-channel PCM now.
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[George L. Schmauch Jr.]

Does that one have the ESVP on it in CCC?  The reason I ask is because I read that entire Anand article and made particular note of this:

[quote]Enthusiasts can turn it off and tweak things if they want to, but AMD looks to have done a solid job profiling their cards – if you try to outsmart ESVP, you’re probably going to be dropping frames in doing so.[/quote]

I’ll definitely be keeping this in mind when I next upgrade my GPU.

[George L. Schmauch Jr.]

That’s why I didn’t vote.  I like photos, since I can quickly take another one.  If I screw up a video, I need to start over.  However, this is about the readers, not me.  Actually, I’d put this on the front page to give it more visibility.

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