So, I have a computer with Windows XP Media Center Edition 2005 installed, in my living room. This PC has a dual tuner Hauppauge PVR-500 TV card, and a high performance graphics card. I have recently purchased 48” widescreen TV, and the next thing on my mine was getting an HDTV signal from my cable [...]
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HDTV in Window Media Center Edition
Posted in Everything, Gadgets and Tech, tagged HDTV on June 5, 2006 | 1 Comment »
Verizon Wireless, Quick 2 Net, and Bluetooth PDA
Posted in Everything, Gadgets and Tech, tagged Cell Phone on May 19, 2006 | 17 Comments »
It’s never too late to learn something new, at least that is my justification for being somewhat behind the times in figuring out wireless Internet connection. Last night I managed to get my bluetooth enabled cell phone and PDA to pair, and using my Verizon Wireless talk plan was able to connect to the Internet [...]
Widescreen TV
Posted in Everything, Gadgets and Tech, tagged HDTV on April 24, 2006 | 3 Comments »
I was fortunate enough to take stock of a used Mitsubishi 1080i widescreen 46″ TV, from a friend of mine leaving town this week – it looks great sitting in my front room. I’m somewhat of a novice when it comes to high end TV, and acronyms like HDTV, DVI, HDCP mean very little to [...]
FIOS Installed
Posted in Everything, Gadgets and Tech, tagged Broadband on October 28, 2005 | 2 Comments »
I am very excited today, “and why is that?” you ask…. because today my Verizon FIOS installation was completed. After having a new fiber cable buried from the street to my house yesterday, and two engineers working inside my house for a few hours today, I finally got connected this afternoon. I am now experiencing [...]
Verizon to offer IPTV over FIOS
Posted in Business Advice, Everything, Gadgets and Tech, tagged Broadband on October 25, 2005 | 1 Comment »
Verizon, the provider of my phone and Internet, is soon to be offering IPTV – TV over the Internet – to those using FIOS. http://www22.verizon.com/FiosForHome/Channels/fios/FiosTV_comingsoon.aspx Hopefully, I shall subscribe to this service as soon as it rolls out 2005/2006 and dump traditional analogue cable TV provided by Comcast. Using my computer as my DVR (currently [...]
Composite Video, S-Video and Media
Posted in Everything, Gadgets and Tech, tagged HDTV on October 3, 2005 | 1 Comment »
I invested a chunk of this weekend messing with my home media setup. It all began when I became aware of a problem with the display on my MCE PC, in the midst of Simon’s Birthday Party – I was hoping to play some background music and scrolling pictures during the party, but the display [...]
New IPOD (well nearly new)
Posted in Everything, Gadgets and Tech, tagged IPOD on September 27, 2005 | 3 Comments »
I decide that it was time that I caught up with the rest of the western world and buy myself an MP3 player. I have an extensive MP3 collection (and a large CD collection). At home and the office I can take advantage of my MP3 collection, but up until now I could only play [...]
TIVO will not keep my recorded TV shows…
Posted in Everything, Gadgets and Tech, tagged HDTV on September 14, 2005 | Leave a Comment »
Another good reason why Windows XP MCE is better than TIVO (you need another excuse?)… At least, for now, MCE will enable you to keep recorded content for as long as you like, unlike TIVO, who subscribe to stiffing their customers with their new policy to expire recorded copyrighted TV shows. http://www.boingboing.net/2005/09/13/tivo_wont_save_certa.html
System repair in less than an hour
Posted in Everything, Gadgets and Tech, tagged Servers on August 25, 2005 | Leave a Comment »
I truly love Norton’s Ghost 2003! My laptop was behaving strangely this evening – applications were spontaneously hanging, system was freezing when logging out, etc. A closer look at my Windows XP event log told me that STISVC.EXE (still imaging service) was failing to start, and a whole load of errors were reported about the [...]
Server running again (for now)
Posted in Everything, Gadgets and Tech, tagged Servers on August 12, 2005 | Leave a Comment »
I spent another late night in the server room last night, working on my crippled server (see yesterday’s post), but I think I have resolved the issue. The problem has to be hardware related because a reinstall of a previous working Ghost image was experiencing the same “hanging” symptoms as before, but yet my server [...]
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