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Mitsubishi Ultra Thin Frame Premium Flat Panel TV with Integrated Sound Projector » Coolest Gadgets — cool. I have a discrete sound projector in one room and have been ... Read more..Sunday, July 6th, 2008 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »
Football: Big Ten Announces TV Plans for First Four Weekends of 2008 Home Schedule - The Ohio State Buckeyes Official Athletics Site - OhioStateBuckeyes.com — here you go. I ... Read more..Friday, June 27th, 2008 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »
I’m going to convert sometime in the next 6 months to an HDMI receiver I think — here are some Sony units — CrunchGear » Archive » Sony is adding ... Read more..Thursday, April 24th, 2008 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »
Logitech > Remotes > Universal Remotes > Harmony® One Advanced Universal Remote — I’m pretty happy with this remote. I’ve used Harmonys in the past and they were easy ... Read more..Tuesday, April 1st, 2008 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »
Comcast HD Quality Reduction: Details, Screenshots - AVS Forum — wow, comcast cheating on HD. add this to their “traffic shaping” and gosh they don’t seem super customer friendly Read more..Friday, February 15th, 2008 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »
Danny Glasser: The Road to HD: QAM to the rescue? — Danny is concocting the most complicated Rube Golbergian system possible to try to watch HD. Good luck! ... Read more..Wednesday, January 23rd, 2008 Posted in Blog | No Comments »
Switch Between Your Gmail Accounts — hmm this has been an impediment to spawning more accounts Paypal toolbar gens one-off credit card numbers — always liked the one-off credit card idea; ... Read more..Wednesday, January 16th, 2008 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »
Pioneer’s Kuro Plasma Will Deliver Absolute Black — Contrast Ratio Is ‘Officially Irrelevant’ | Gadget Lab from Wired.com — I’d like this, I hate the grayish emissions from most of ... Read more..Wednesday, January 16th, 2008 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »
Scott Hanselman’s Computer Zen - Long Term Viability of AppleTV — I wonder about this too. It seems like there are a kajillion boxes (for instance XStreamHD) and ... Read more..Tuesday, January 8th, 2008 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »
To my eyes, the game was actually painful to watch in HD — I was watching Q13 FOX on Comcast. You could detect noticeable interframe jitter, it was particularly ... Read more..Thursday, December 6th, 2007 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »
The last time I tried to get a cablecard installed was a disaster — A Little Ludwig Goes A Long Way: Comcast Cablecard Install. Things have gotten a lot ... Read more..Saturday, November 24th, 2007 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »
OK I have a problem. I am trying to set up two Tivo boxes in one room. Unfortunately they both respond to either remote, this is bad. ... Read more..Wednesday, October 4th, 2006 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »
Don’t Buy Product Warranties — no shocker here. Anything the stores are pushing that hard can’t be good for you. How higher RPM drives rip you off — some contention ... Read more..Thursday, September 14th, 2006 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »
Thomas Hawk’s Digital Connection: TiVo Nirvana Has Arrived, Series 3 TiVo Available Now $799 — I’d be all over this if it wasn’t the middle of football season. I ... Read more..Tuesday, October 18th, 2005 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »
At least that is what I get out of this report that thomas hawk links to. Which jives with my own experience, my cablecard has been unreliable as hell. Read more..Wednesday, October 12th, 2005 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »
I’m sure I’ll get one of both, but I have to agree — I have to have HD downloads or I won’t bother with the video service. And I don’t ... Read more..Monday, September 12th, 2005 Posted in Uncategorized | 1 Comment »
Cleaned out all my old Tivo season passes over the weekend and set up my new plan for this fall. Here’s the lineup: Monday: Prison Break, Medium, Weeds. Medium ... Read more..Thursday, September 1st, 2005 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »
From the WSJ and other press, discussion of the mosaic feature coming to our TV screens — watch 8 football games at once. I think this is just brilliant. Football ... Read more..Tuesday, July 19th, 2005 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »
Flickr viewer for XBOX media center Tivo annunces developer challenge winners. Still a young market, but it seems like over the next 2-3 years every TV is going to have some sort ... Read more..Wednesday, June 22nd, 2005 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »
How can Dancing With The Stars be the #1 show on TV??? I can’t even identify the stars. I clearly am out of step with most of the ... Read more..Monday, April 25th, 2005 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »
The rise of developer communities targetting the hometheater experience is interesting, something I’m fascinated by. For example, this itunes plugin for tivo. Tivo2 and Windows Media Center Edition ... Read more..Monday, February 28th, 2005 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »
Very excited about centerstage as the media center UI for my mac mini. One of the missing components that this machine needs to be the perfect hometheater pc. Rich wonders ... Read more..Thursday, February 17th, 2005 Posted in Uncategorized | 1 Comment »
So after a week of playing with my new mac mini as my hometheater pc, i am mostly happy. I’ve configured it to grab downloaded AVIs (via bittorrent) off ... Read more..Thursday, January 20th, 2005 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »
Hey rich has been having trouble getting the new microsoft/moto dvr box from comcast — rich here is my blog entry on that. Also I ordered a cablecard from comcast today ... Read more..