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PVR Wire blogging in TV Squad
As regular readers know, the PVR Wire blog is retiring as of today. The retirement of a blog is sometimes necessary for a constellation of reasons. We at Weblogs, Inc. have honed our network over the past eight months or so in an effort to produce the best overall experience for readers. Doing so re …
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Beyond TV Vista compatibility is on its way
Filed under: Tips, Beyond TV One of the biggest inconveniences involved with upgrading to Windows Vista is all of the potential software and hardware incompatibilities that may pop up once you are ready to go. As with software drivers, there will also be programs that simply just won't work. Ove …
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TiVo vs. EchoStar Continues...
Filed under: News, Dish Network, TiVo, LawsuitYou may be aware that TiVo sued Echostar over infringing patents relating to the technology behind its PVRs. TiVo won and the court ruled that TiVo would get $88 million in damages and also Echostar would have to stop selling and using infringing PVRs.Bi …
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A DVR in a motorcycle helmet
Filed under: General, NewsWhenever you think of a DVR you automatically think of a grey box sitting in your front room hooked up to your TV. But digital video recorders are aren't just restricted to the living room, for example those sturdy surveillance DVRs.But according to All DVR News Fast Forwar …
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TiVo Series 3 PROM hack - Not for the non-techies
Filed under: Hacks, News, TiVo, DIY, TiVo Series 3Engadget has discovered that the TiVo Series 3 has had the PROM chip hacked. If you're like me your probably thinking "what the hell is a PROM chip?"Well PROM stands for Programmable Read Only Memory and the PROM chip is placed on the motherboard ins …
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Control your house with your TiVo - HomeSeer TiVo HME Application
Filed under: General, News, TiVo, DIY, Home NetworkingNow this is cool! Control electronic devices in your house from the comfort of your couch using a TiVo remote control. That means you can now annoy other family members by turning off their lights from the comfort of your couch!You may of heard o …
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TiVo taking on Nielsen with new ratings statistics
Filed under: Advertising, News, TiVoWe already knew that TiVo was getting into the ratings business when it sold statistical data to Omnicom Media Group, and recently teamed up with IRI to offer even more advanced statistics on its customers viewing habits.TiVo is now launching a service called Stop …
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Edit Recorded TV Shows in Vista Move Maker
Filed under: News, Software, Microsoft, Media Center Edition, DIYYesterday I mentioned Microsoft's propriety video format MS-DVR which is used for Windows Media Center recordings. Previously you would need to convert the videos to a more standard format using something like DVRBox so you could edit …
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OMS-GX300 - The $4,995 Vista Media Center PC
Filed under: General, HDTV, News, Media Center Edition, ReviewsCheck out the Vista-ready OMS-GX300 Media Center from Okoro Media Systems. This beast of a media center will set you back $4,995 but includes some mouth watering specs: A silver and sleek SilverStone LC18 case which comes with a li …
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TiVX 5010-P HD TV recorder - Odd shaped diskless, media streaming, Korean HD PVR
Filed under: General, HDTV, News, Reviews, Home Networking, StreamingThe new TiVX 5010-P HD TV recorder is one unique and sleek PVR from DViCO. To start off this futuristic grey cylinder does not contain an internal hard drive but requires you to add your own external one via a USB port. I actually …
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Hauppauge TV Tuners are Vista Ready
Filed under: News, Software, Microsoft, Media Center EditionThe Vista launch has come upon on us and so it's a busy time for a lot of PC related companies. One of which is Hauppauge which has announced that it has the widest range of Vista ready PC tuner cards available.Hauppauge will now be offerin …
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A portable HD PVR in the palm of your hands?
Filed under: HDTV, News, Microsoft, Media Center Edition, MobileOQO, a company that specializes in ultra-mobile personal computing, announced the Model 02 at this year's Consumer Electronics Show.The Model 02 is an extremely powerful portable mini PC that has the ability to run Windows Vista Ultimat …
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Using a PVR for censorship
Filed under: GeneralAnyone who reads this site most likely understands and appreciates the many features of a PVR: pausing, commercial skipping, program guide, etc. Well a fella in Salt Lake City has found a new, and somewhat ingenious use for his PVR.Matthew T. Jarman hopes to be able to build a sy …
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Convert your DVR-MS MCE recordings to Xvid, x264 and MPEG-4
Filed under: News, Software, Microsoft, Media Center Edition, DIYDVR-MS is a proprietary Microsoft format that is used in Media Center Edition to record videos. Unfortunately this format can't be played on may other devices so you may want to be able to easily convert your DVR-MS video recordings to …
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SageTV Announces Support for AMD LIVE
Filed under: General, News, Software, SageTVSageTV, the popular provider of PC PVR software, has announced support for AMD LIVE! Home Cinema And Home Media Server.An AMD LIVE! PC is much like a Windows Media Center PC offering a complete solution for video, music and photo access through an easy to …
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STi7200 - World's first Dual HDTV Decoder Chip
Filed under: General, HDTV, NewsSTMicroelectronics has announced its Dual HD Chip, the STi7200. This is the worlds first Dual HDTV Decoder Chip to be manufactured in 65nm Technology which means it can offer lower power consumption and competitive pricing.The STi7200 chip supports HD inputs from HD D …
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Need help with Vista MCE? Check out TGB's FAQ
Filed under: Media Center EditionWith the official public release of Vista here, the amount of people using Media Center for their PVR needs is sure to climb to a higher level than it was with Windows XP Media Center Edition 2005. As with a lot of the new users, some of us veteran users may have som …
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Trinion L7 HTPC touts integrated touchscreen LCD
Filed under: General, News, Microsoft, Media Center Edition, Reviews The Trinion L7 is a well packed Home Theater PC (HTPC) with a nifty 800 x 480 resolution touch-screen LCD monitor that can be controlled by an IR remote. It features easy playback of DVDs, photos, TV episodes etc and can even laun …
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PVR Wire to retire on 31 January
Filed under: Site NewsAs many of our readers may already be aware, AOL, PVR Wire's overlords, have decided to 'retire' some of the niche blogs in the Weblogs Inc. Network. Sadly, PVR Wire will be among the blogs getting shipped off to the retirement home for old blogs. So what will happen to the peo …
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HD DVD hacker interviewed
Filed under: Hacks, News, DVDYou've probably heard that the new HD-DVD format, which was reportedly un-crackable, has been hacked. Last week the anonymous hacker that goes by the name of muslix64 was interviewed by Slyck.comThis was an extremely interesting interview with muslix64 who sounded like a …
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