Last night I found my TiVo HD just showing a black screen and it was unresponsive to the remote. No big deal, I rebooted it and it came back up fine. Then I tried to play an HD recording and it spontaneously rebooted. This time it got stuck in a reboot loop. So I let [...]
Archive of entries posted in September 2008
Interesting analysis of Gates/Seinfeld commercial
By now you’ve probably seen the new Microsoft commercial featuring Bill Gates and Jerry Seinfeld which premiered during Thursday Night Football last week. When I first saw it, I wasn’t impressed. “The future. Delicious.” Seriously? This is Microsoft’s counter to Apple’s hilarious “I’m a Mac. I’m a PC” ads? Churros, shoes, and moist, edible PCs? [...]
Mark your calendar (for the last time)!
Don’t forget that tomorrow is the end of the world! Or maybe not.
DL.TV sprinkler incident during podcast
Craziness! During DL.TV’s video podcast review of “Spore” last week (episode #248-1), the sprinkler system went off, sending Scott Asnault and Jeff Green scrambling to grab equipment and get out. You can follow the details on their twitter feed. They’re still trying to determine which equipment in the studio can be salvaged. Ouch!
Disappointing sports weekend
Both the Bucs and the Browns lost yesterday on opening day of the NFL’s 2008-09 season. The Rays have lost 5 out of 6 games in September, allowing the Red Sox to creep up to 1.5 games behind in the AL East … right before opening a three-game series with the Sox here in St. [...]
Controlling HT components through walls
The way my home theater is set up, all of the components (receiver, TiVo, DVD recorder, Wii, etc.) are hidden in a cabinet. When we first moved in, I would leave the cabinet doors open so that the IR signals from the remote control could reach the components. This was unsightly though, so eventually I [...]
The terrabyte TiVo!
150 hours of HD-recording goodness … today TiVo unveiled its new TiVo HD XL. From the outside it looks just like the TiVo HD, but this baby sports a 1TB (that’s 1 terrabyte, or 1,000 gigabytes) “green” hard drive, THX certification (like my now-discontinued Series3 box), and comes with the backlit Glo remote … all [...]
Strange sightings on my commute home
I saw two really odd things on my drive home from work this evening. First, on the exit ramp from the highway, I was behind an old lady in her late 70s/early 80s driving a late model Lincoln Continental with a license plate frame that read: “Mailmen do it first class.” I wondered if she [...]
