Archive for the 'PVR' Category

A Linux DVR is in my future

I’ve had a Windows based DVR (digital video recorder) for about 2 years now. It was working fine when I used it as just a DVR but for the past 9 months, it’s served double duty as a DVR and a Media Center. the problem seems to be that the software - SageTV - doesn’t [...]

Falling off the wagon - sort-of

A few weeks ago I “gave up TV”. Now I will confess that I have not been totally “TV-free”.  I tried reading news on-line and getting weather the same way. To some extent it worked but not well enough. My solution has been to seek out streaming media.
So I have settled into a pretty comfortable routine. I catch [...]

Converting video for your iPod

I was going to give this post some funny, thought provoking or obscure title but then realized, the task at hand is to provide a little bit of useful information. So instead, this will be plain and simple.
(For those who are way too hyper to read any further, here is the download link and the screen [...]