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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Happy Happy day! As Brad Templeton writes:
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 ...
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...
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...
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,...
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...
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...
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...
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)....
I’m still waiting to upgrade to Fedora Core 2.0, for two reasons.
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...
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...
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...
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 ...
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...
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...
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 ...
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...
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...
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...
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...
I’ve finally finished putting together my new backend system. I went slightly over my $1,000 budget, but was pretty close.
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 ...
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...
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.
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...
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...
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,...
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...
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...
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 ...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
I’m still waiting to upgrade to Fedora Core 2.0, for two reasons.
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...
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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 ...
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 ...
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...
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...
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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 ...
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)....
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...
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...
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...
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 ...
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 ...
I’m retiring my old wordpress blog (over at http://myhdbox.com), and now I begin the slow process of migrating each post over.
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...
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...
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...
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