Category: Media Centers and PVR
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Toms TiVo
One of the guys at work here has a TiVo which has been ‘functionally enhanced’ to work in New Zealand (thanks NZTiVo) but it had run out of guide data – he took me around to his place this lunchtime to get things going again, which served to make me realise that it’s been a […]
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That’s not a PVR… *THIS* is a PVR!
Yeah, I know it’s a complete misquote of Crocodile Dundee, but when you compare my PVR to the beast here – you see what I mean… More details and comments when I get a chance.
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Viewing multiple video streams using Linksys WVC54G
We’ve got a couple of Linksys WVC54G IP cameras lying around the office from a previous project, so I was thinking “How hard would it be to create a page I could navigate to from my home PC (or media center) to view live video streams from these cameras?” Apparently, it’s a bit harder than one would think…
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Rotateable Racks are Rad!
(Or �Swivelling Shelves are Sweet�) I *finally* got around to installing my HT gear into the rack I bought for it ages back. It�s been one of those parts of the house renovation which I�ve really been looking forward to and now (apart from a bit of cable tidy up and the attachment of the IR blasters) it�s in place!
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Windows XP Video Decoder Checkup Utility
As I’ve posted earlier, I’ve been running Microsoft Windows Media Center 2005 (MCE 2005) for quite awhile and, for the most part it’s great – however I found a utility on the Green Button forums this morning which I wish I’d discovered a loooong time ago…
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MCE 2005 – Why Media Center will change the way I’m entertained.
I’ve been playing with home theater applications on and off for a few years, I dabbled with MythTV and the ShowShifter type apps, but I’m now a firm believer in Microsoft Media Center 2005 so this entry will serve as a staging point for me to babble on about it…
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My Media Center Setup
I’m currently running a Silverstone ST-LC10B (with the iMon VFD software in conjunction with FrontView for MCE it’s sweet!) Full specs are: Mainboard: ASUS A8N-SLI Deluxe (with a Zalman ZM-NB47J) Processor: AMD Athlon 64 3000+ (Skt 939) Memory: 1x 512MB Kingmax DDR400 Graphics: GeCube Radeon X700 (SilentCool) Tuners: 2x Hauppauge 150MCE (Though, I’d probably go […]
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Tricks for the TiVo
As part of the on-going duplication of data around the interweb, this page is more for my reference than anything else, but if you find this page (and find it useful, then good on you. The TiVo sites I frequent the most are NZ Tivo – The NZ TiVo Community and Oz Tivo which, despite […]
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HOWTO: MythTV in NZ
There’s a page I wrote ages back here which covers off my early experience with MythTV on Fedora – I’ve chosen to just link to it from here as, well – Google knows the old location and I really don’t want to re-edit everything to suit this new blogging template (ahh, the flexibility of flat […]
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Predictions for 2004
After spending the best part of a couple of weeks away from my beloved broadband, I find myself with an almost unquenchable thirst for news and reviews that I may have missed out on during my time down south with just a simple CDMA connection to rely on. I’ve found that I don’t have much […]