I’m back up to four TiVos. 🙂 I couldn’t resist the new TiVo HD to go in my office with my Sony LCD TV. It’s time to retire my trusty old TX20. The THD is sometimes referred to as the “S3 Lite.” It doesn’t have the OLED display, isn’t THX certified, only has a 160gb …
Our old Polaroid portable DVD player wouldn’t work off of just battery anymore since a tiny plastic latch had broken off. After researching the cost for a new battery, I decided to just sell the whole thing on eBay and get a brand new player. At Best Buy, I found the Philips DCP850/37 portable DVD …
I recently bricked my Linksys WRT54GS router while playing around with the DD-WRT firmware (it wasn’t DD-WRT’s fault … the v6 router I had was one of the “crippled” ones with less NVRAM running VxWorks so it was a risky undertaking to begin with). I really like the DD-WRT firmware, so I went shopping for …
Another one of my new Christmas toys is the Garmin StreetPilot c340 GPS. Times have really changed since the days (i.e., 1999) when I would connect my Delorme Tripmate to the serial port on my laptop and drive around using Street Atlas. The c340 is the shape of a small tube television set and has …
My trusty three-year old Canon Powershot A70 had been sent back to Canon for CCD repair twice (under recall) and was still working relatively well, but my wife surprised me this Christmas with the new Canon Powershot SD600 Digital Elph. The 6-megapixel SD600 is officially the smallest digital camera I have owned (even smaller than …
With the new HD TiVo in place, it was also time to consolidate the rest of the home theater in the media closet. This meant it was finally time to retire the 4-head Goldstar VCR my wife had bought back in 1995! But I wasn’t quite ready to drop VHS altogether (we still have a …
Ok, it’s time to start selling TiVos. I have four of them in the house now that I “broke down” and bought the new THX-certified Series3 HD DMR. This thing is sweet … and I know I say that a lot, but this time I mean it! It has two CableCARD slots, HDMI, eSATA (for …
I guess I never blogged the fact that back in March I had replaced my aging (i.e., over a year old) Netgear router with a cheapie Belkin. Well, after I switched from WEP to WPA encryption, I started having way too many wireless drops and networking issues. So, I replaced the Belkin (sold it on …
I recently decided to move up to WPA encryption on my home wireless network. When surveying my current network devices, I discovered that my old Netgear wireless bridge only supported WEP. A quick browse of Netgear’s site confirmed that there were no plans for a firmware upgrade to add WPA support, so I went off …
My Brother 3820CN multi-function printer fell prey to the dreaded Error 41 that seems to plague Brother machines. Now, in Brother’s defense, they did extend the warranty on my printer from 90 days to 24 months, but that 2 years just ran out in May so I was out of luck. So I needed to …