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Making The Great Football Pool a Turnkey Product
Summary I have been running a simple online “Pick ‘em” style football pool for decades – since 1995 – and it’s been a source of enjoyment for my friends and ...
HDMI -> Channels DVR
Summary DVRs have been around for a long time, but unfortunately streaming services have locked us in to their cloud DVR solutions. As a long time MythTV t...
Things 3: Hacking my way to TZ aware reminders
Summary I ran across this question posted in the r/thingsapp subreddit. The crux of the question was how to handle the case where you set your reminder for...
Bringing old blog posts over to new blog
I’m retiring my old wordpress blog (over at http://myhdbox.com), and now I begin the slow process of migrating each post over.
FastAPI: Writing a FIFO queue with asyncio.Queue
Summary In this quick post I’m going to describe how to use asyncio.Queue in a FastAPI server for processing incoming requests in the background, and in the ...
Windows Media Center requires an NTSC tuner? WTF?
I was cruising AVSForums when I ran across a thread from somebody complaining that they were having a hard time setting up their MCE PC with just an HD (ATS...
How long can the television industry last like this?
I just finished reading the stuff about the music industry and how artists are now considered more ‘in control’ of their own destiny, and the entire distribu...
Sony BMG Lawsuit (get the word out)
The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) has done a great job fighting for the consumers rights in a digital age. As a member, I’ve been very proud to suppo...
Coming soon: The 8-terabyte desktop
I’d more consider this a media backend server than a desktop.. strange headline. I think folks are finally getting it right with the disk space. The initia...
Narrow minded uninformed opining by wired.com
The good folks at wired.com are becoming about as tech savvy as cnet. Maybe this is what happens when you get too big for your britches. The article “Build Y...
Upgrade to Mythtv 0.19 (smooth)
I upgraded to version 0.19 of MythTV last weekend, and here is my takeaway. The upgrade went very smoothly, I have a frontend running FC3 (apt) and a backend...
HD Beat - ‘How do you record HDTV’
Here are the results of a poll that HDBeat did recently which shows just how people are recording their HDTV. The thing I find interesting is the behind Sate...
Online TV Recorder
The online TV Recorder. You log in, program your show to record, then download the recorded show. This appears to be a community driven site based in Germany...
CyberLink launches PowerCinema Linux
I’m going to have to give this a look. I’d like to do a feature comparison with MythTV, and if I get a chance to download it and give it a spin, I will. Lin...
Building your own Linux Media Center? Try MythTV first.
I was over at linux.com, and there was an article about building your own Linux Home Media Center. It makes me realize that there is a strong perception that...
D-Link’s DSM-5210R Wireless HD streamer - Engadget
From Engadget:
The Clicker: “You’re going the wrong way!” - Home Entertainment - homeentertainment.engadget.com
The Clicker is a weekly contribution to Engadget, usually focused on High-Definition television. Much of what he contributes is usually pretty entry-level st...
Disney offers next-day iTunes downloads of TV shows
Disney offers next-day iTunes downloads of TV shows: “Opening the door to a new revenue stream for television content, the Walt Disney Co. said on Wednesd...
Rent My DVR
This site just came on line recently. It’s a completely fascinating concept, and I’m wondering just how legal it is.
New 3-tuner HD backend system finally up
I’ve finally finished putting together my new backend system. I went slightly over my $1,000 budget, but was pretty close.
Hitachi’s DV-DH1000W, a terabyte hi-def DVR with DVD recorder
While this device has not hit the streets in the U.S. I still can’t get over the fact that I’ve been sitting on an over 1TB HD PVR/DVR DVD Recorder for well ...
Room to room HDTV with HomePlug AV
HD Beat has a snippet on HomePlug AV. This is a technology which allows network connectivity over your home power lines. Link: HD Beat A couple people diss...
New Backend only system
I’m in the process of putting together an exclusive backend only system. When I get a chance, I’ll put the specs together here, but basically, I’m going for ...
Ultimate AV: Hot Streaming HDTV
I personally think that MPEG-4 compression would be better suited for streaming of HDTV but the possibility that we might soon have the capability to stream ...
500GB Hard Drives in Q3 2005
Don’t know the price, but this is very good news for us HDTV recording freaks. Now we can drop 1TB in just about any computer. WOOHOO Maxtor.com - Press Cen...
My new (cheap) HD frontend for MythTV
I’ve just purchased the IO-Data AvelLink Player. It’s a High-Definition Network Media player which also plays DVD’s (standard DVD’s as well as any other medi...
The Broadcast Flag, She Is Dead : Gizmodo
Maybe it shouldn’t – but it kinda surprises me how quickly this saga seems to be coming to resolution, but the broadcast flag appears to be dead for good. An...
TV Executives could care less about Consumers
Edward Felton (Freedom to Tinker) has a blog entry about what the Television Network executives have to say about the Broadcast Flag, and how it can negative...
Brad Ideas: We strike down the broadcast flag!
Happy Happy day! As Brad Templeton writes:
Update to 0.18
I’m looking forward to getting some time to update from 0.17 to 0.18 of MythTV. Chris Pinkham updated some mythtranscode bits to help us pcHDTV folks.
Local HD channels
Setting up a channel table can be a bit of a bear when you are using the HD-3000 in DVB mode. As such there have been a few folks that I work with and around...
cx88_dvb fun
I use MythTV (atrpms) with the pcHDTV HD-3000 card. I downloaded the 2.0 driver and compiled, and, as per the instructions, attempted to modprobe the cx88_dv...
Wendy’s Blog: Legal Tags: Broadcast Flag: D.C. Circuit Asks About Standing
Wendy Seltzer (fellow MythTV HD user, and lawyer working with the EFF) has posted a bit about some progress they’re making against the implementation of the ...
FC 3 install on SATA drive - finally
I’ve finally gotten Fedora Core 3 installed on my SATA drive. You may remember that I had some problems getting Fedora Core 3 installers to see my sata drive...
Dvorak on MythTV
John C. Dvorak has written a small bit on MythTV for pcmag.com. There’s nothing earth-shattering or revealing in his writings, but simply having Dvorak write...
Fedora Core 3… Where for art thou?
I’ve got some new hardware for an updated front end, and I’m dying to get it up and running on the new version of MythTV (0.17) and Fedora Core 3. It’s a Shu...
Public Knowledge leading a lawsuit to fight the Broadcast Flag
With the deadline for the mandatory compliance with the broadcast flag looming, Public Knowledge is filing a lawsuit fighting the flag. Here are a couple bul...
The Future of Television?
Andrew Turner on High Earth Orbit has written a nice essay on the future of television. Here is an excerpt:
MythTV … a non-mythical solution
Shelly Palmer, Chairman of the National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences has blogged about the NYT article on MythTV. It is a very well written comm...
Marketing in the age of Ad-Zapping
The Australian has a nice piece on the Marketing perspective of ad-zapping. The quote below, to me, is a fundamental reality that over the air networks are g...
The end of PVR’s?
Stand up and take a bow Telesales Broadband (UK Broadband company), the company is investing £20 million in the development of TV-on-demand and personal vide...
WishTV from Brad Templeton
From Brad Templeton’s weblog: Brad Ideas: Changing the nature of TV again He has written a perl script to create a wishlist for MythTV. It is a great idea,...
New HD-3000
A few friends and I have taken a leap. We are putting together an order of 8 HD-3000 High Definition recording cards before the famous Broadcast Flag stuff b...
Automating commercial cutting
One of the nice features of mythtv is that it can do commercial detection, and from that, build a cutlist. My biggest problem, and what kept me from using th...
HDTV Viewing update
Not much earth-shattering to report here. The good news is that I have been recording like a madman, and trying to perfect the process before the new fall se...
Remote happiness
I have followed the advice of Jared Wilson a few months ago and went to Radio Shack and picked up a remote. I got the 15-2117 (with the RF command center)....
Fedora Core 2.0 update
I’m still waiting to upgrade to Fedora Core 2.0, for two reasons.
Trying to solve the HDTV dilemma
I have a basic dilemma in regard to HDTV. I can capture this amazingly high quality video (1920x1080), but cannot play it back on my system. I have a few ch...
Fedora Core 2.0
It looks like Fedora Core 2.0 is out, and I’ve heard that HDTV playback is significantly improved with Linux kernel 2.6. I think my next step is to create a...
Mission accomplished
The antenna was installed, and now I can reliably receive HDTV signals for all the major channels in the area. Just as I suspected however; I still can’t vi...
HDTV Here I come?
In my continued quest to create a completely usable HDTV tuner, I am getting closer. Tonight, I have a ‘cable guy’ coming over to install my UHF attic anten...
How I use MythTV
As you might have read (if you checked out the MythTV.org web site) MythTV has a boatload of features. I really only use a few of them, but what I do use, I ...
Enter MythTV
In order to view TV through a Linux based HDTV you need a solid client. I wanted something similar to my Dish Network PVR (the 721) where I could do things l...
Enter the HTPC
After researching the ins and outs of HDTV, I decided that building my own Home Theater PC was the way to go. No, really… Stop laughing. I could put the wh...
The Pchdtv Tuner
k/k/— date: “2004-05-13 00:01:00 -0800” description: Great HDTV Tuner Card tags: hdtv mythtv categories: hdtv —
Where to start?
Well, This is the first post, so I figure I should probably start out with a bit of history. Ann and I bought a big TV… You know, one of those honkers that ...