Category Archives: Technology
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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UPC programme data grabber released
I mentioned a few days ago that I’d been working on a grabber to pull TV programme timetable data for the channels in UPC’s digital TV package. Well, with the family out of the country, I seized the opportunity to … Continue reading
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MythTV or TiVo?
My friend and former colleague Jason in California has a couple of TiVo units in his house in California and says that he can’t see a need for a MythTV box. TiVo PVRs are great, and I would have bought … Continue reading
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