Author Archives: ianmacd
Away From My Desk
I get on a plane to U, S and A tomorrow to be reunited with Sarah and Wiesje. It’s been a lonely ten days, but I’ve got a lot done while I’ve been on my own, so it hasn’t been … Continue reading
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UPC: Underpowered Products Continue
Having just about finished configuring our home-brew PVR/DVR, I was, of course, interested to see an announcement from UPC that they will soon be offering their own PVR/set-top box in one. On the face of it, this might be reason … Continue reading
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Master Blaster
The last major problem with our MythTV box has been fixed. Our previous IR blaster was underpowered and would occasionally lose a digit when signalling our set-top box to change channel. It was very occasional, but it’s annoying to be … Continue reading
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New MythTV Video
For a number of reasons, I’ve been dissatisfied with using our Hauppauge PVR-350’s on-board MPEG-2 decoder and TV Out port for MythTV. For one thing, the MythTV mailing-list makes it clear that support for the decoder of this device is … Continue reading
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Keeping Busy
What do you do when you’re missing your wife and darling daughter? In my case, you keep busy. I had intended to go into the crawlspace under our house at the weekend to lay down some CAT5e cable. The intention … Continue reading
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