TiVo-related stuff
I’ve been using Galleon for a long time (since its JavaHMO roots) to play my music library on my TiVos. Now there’s nothing wrong with it, but development has pretty much come to a complete halt. Enter a new HME music application: Harmonium by Charles Perry. It’s still in early beta (only up to version …
A few weeks ago, the Local Radar screen in Galleon‘s weather application started showing “N/A” instead of the image from weather.com. Galleon has been dormant, development-wise, for a while. It was updated late last year with some bug fixes and HD support by s2kdave and jtkohl, but has lapsed into the realm of unsupported (but …
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No, not the food I’m allergic to … the TiVo peanut! Gizmodo has a great article on the history of TiVo’s distinctive remote.
I got my hands on the TiVo-verified Western Digital My DVR Expander. It’s an external 500gb drive that connects to my THD’s eSATA port. Setting it up was as easy as turning off the TiVo, connecting the drive with the supplied eSATA cable, and then powering up the TiVo again. The box recognized the external …
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 …
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 …
Until now, I’d been sticking with the cheaper universal remote controls. My favorite was the Magnavox PMDVR-8 which did a great job of controlling all of my home theater devices, including my TiVos. Recently, however, I had two of the units go bad. I was going to just replace it with the same, but was …
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 …
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 …
I’ve gone through quite a few Linux “servers” as I’ve acquired new computers and relegated the older ones to more menial (but still important!) tasks. Years ago, I had been running Linux on my old 486 with only 16mb of RAM and it did the job admirably by serving up MP3s and running a small …