The Simple Functionality that DirecTV Still Lacks
A few days ago I had a DirecTV HR23 box go belly-up. I awoke one morning to the smell of melted plastic. I didn’t open the box, so I don’t know what went wrong, but it was obviously something bad. …
Hauppauge Colossus HD Video Recorder PCI Express Card
Ken Plotkin, the CEO of Hauppage (www.hauppauge.com), describes the Colossus HD H.264 Video Recorder PCI Express card for the PC. The Colossus card is designed to record high definition video from sources such as an X-Box 360, Playstation 3, as…
The Future Of OTT TV Apps
I’ve been experimenting for some time with connecting computers to televisions, along with a variety of other set-top boxes. I’m now at a point where I’ve begun to draw a few conclusions. Are we there yet? The short answer is…
Tech Serendipity
Sometimes things no one ever thought of simply seem to come together. Services and devices end up being used to do things the individual inventors and designers couldn’t have imagined. For some time now, I’ve been thinking about attaching one…
Will We Ever See The New DirecTiVo?
When I signed up for DirecTV back in 2004 I received the, now legendary, DirecTiVo (the Samsung S4040R). I loved it. I almost cried in late 2007 when I bought my first HDTV and “had” to give it up for…
Updated Western Digital DVR Expander
For those of you with a cable or satellite DVR or TiVo, Western Digital has updated their My Book AV DVR Expander hard drives. Among other things, is the addition of a USB port, to the already existing eSATA port. …
GNC-2010-06-29 #588 Announce Show Support Initiative
I talk more about the studio upgrade initiative and hope that you will be inclined to support the podcast. The goals is to raise $10,000.00 in the next 30 days a hundred dollars or more at a time. This is…