I guess I didn’t write about the TiVo Slide remote when I first got it last October but after going without it for a few days recently I realized how much I like it. The Slide is a combination infrared and Bluetooth remote that works with the TiVo Premiere, TiVo HD, and TiVo Series 3 [...]
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TiVo launches iPad app for Premiere
Last week TiVo finally released its iPad app that it had announced back in November. The TiVo® App for iPad is a fun and FREE new companion for your TiVo Premiere box that lets you search, browse, discover and share without ever interrupting what you’re watching. Now you can quickly surface new content, view guides, [...]
Manage your TiVo Season Passes online
This past week TiVo unveiled its online Season Pass Manager, available through your account on tivo.com. Adding to the existing features of being able to view your Now Playing and To Do lists online, the SPM lets you re-order, copy, and delete the Season Passes on your TiVos from your web browser.
TiVo Premiere
It’s been almost three years since I bought a new TiVo, so it was time. I’ve added the new TiVo Premiere to my main home theater setup, relegating my trusty, original Series3 box to home office duty. I already had the 1TB WD Expander drive from the Series3, so rather than spend the extra cash [...]
Vizio VECO320L 32″ LCD HDTV
We’ve been transforming our guest bedroom into a combination guest bedroom/exercise/game room. The TV in that room was an old silver 13″ Magnavox tube that just wasn’t going to work for playing Rock Band 2 on the Wii, so I started shopping for a new flat screen television. While I wasn’t specifically looking for a [...]
179 hours of HD goodness
Who needs to buy a brand new TiVo HD XL to get 1TB of recording capacity? After adding the Western Digital eSATA 1TB MyDVR Expander to my Series3 my recording capacity jumped from 32 HD hours (303 SD hours) to 179 HD hours (or 1,561 SD hours) … 1.3 terrabytes! Just like the 500gb Expander [...]
Pro Acoustics 2.5″ mini-cube speakers
The week before Easter we painted all of the central rooms in our house (kitchen, dining room, and family room) which had not been painted since we moved in about 8 years ago. In the family room, where the home theater setup is, we now have much lighter walls, so my old, blocky, and black [...]
The Matrix: 10 years later
Wow … “The Matrix” was released 10 years ago. Today’s xkcd really sums it up: I still use that DVD as my definitive surround sound test (specifically the bullet time sequence on the roof).
1TB of storage at home, nice!
Shortly after the new year began, I started converting all of my DVDs (and even some old VHS tapes!) into MP4 format with the goal being immediate access to my entire video library on any TiVo in the house using tools like pyTivo or streambaby. About two weeks into the project it became readily apparent [...]
I can play Wii during a power outage …
… for about 10 minutes anyway. Last night I tested my new APC J15 home theater power conditioner and UPS. A neat feature of the unit is the front VFD that shows various informational screens, one of which is the total watts being drawn. With everything connected turned on (receiver, DVD player, TiVo, Wii, and [...]
