Thanks to a great deal, a third TiVo has made its home in my media closet. This one is the Toshiba RS-TX20 Digital Media Server. Housed inside its shiny case is a DVD player, DVD burner, and a 140hr TiVo. It has all the same connectivity options as my other standard Series2 boxes, but also …
The home theater system I started building back in 2000 when I purchased my Pioneer receiver and a set of speakers was finally completed this weekend when I added the Panasonic TH-42PD25UP 42″ plasma EDTV to my setup. My budget couldn’t handle a full-blown HDTV, but I am perfectly happy so far with the excellent …
Ok, yes, I am addicted … but I can stop any time I want … really! Today I purchased my second TiVo. Now that the Home Media Option is no longer an option (i.e., it’s free and included with the TiVo service) and the subscription price for multi-TiVo homes has gone down (only $6.95/month for …
For Father’s Day I received a pair of Sony’s 900Mhz wireless headphones (MDR-RF960RK), a perfect companion to my home theater system. Now I can watch TiVo, or a movie, at a comfortable volume (i.e., loud!) without disturbing the rest of the house late at night, or when other people are in the common area reading, …
My home theater setup was graced with both a DVD Changer and a TiVo unit this past Christmas. The TiVo is soooo cool. It’s basically a little Linux box with a hard drive in it that allows you to pause and rewind live TV and easily record your favorite shows using an on-screen guide. The …
My home theater setup was graced with both a DVD Changer and a TiVo unit this past Christmas. The changer is the Panasonic DVD-CP67S, a sleek, silver, 5-disc progressive scan unit with all the trimmings. In addition to DVDs, it will play audio CDs, VCDs, MP3 CDs, and Windows Media discs. Using the component video …
Over the Millenium New Year’s weekend I was bitten by the home theater (or HT) bug. Since at the time I already had a DVD player in my laptop (using Margi’s DVD-to-Go, now discontinued) and a decent big screen TV, I opted for a receiver. I chose the Pioneer Elite VSX-24TX. It’s a Dolby Pro-Logic/Dolby …