Jumpy, jittery, convoluted video and audio For a long time, Myth did well. It did everything we expected it to and even a little more. Then shows began to degrade. It may have been a driver or software upgrade or a settings change – these things don’t “just happen” – but I could not trace [...]
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Things Adrienne & Dean Do, Think and WriteBrowsing Posts published in April, 2006
I do not miss the advertisements Previously, I blogged about how I got to be a MythTV user. Possibly the best thing about Myth is automatic commercial skipping! It is not perfect, but when it works, you barely know your’re watching broadcast television. It works by marking suspected commercials and jumping over those marks during [...]
TiVo was cool, but I wanted something more. Enter Robert X Cringely, a technology columnist for PBS . He has 20-some years in the industry and writes compelling articles. In late 2004, I read this article which launched me into a homebrew PVR project. Cringely wrote about Andrew Greig, a man in Canada who works [...]
So a couple of years ago I realized that I read. I mean, a lot. I went on a two week vacation and read 13 books in that time. I’m pretty sure the only reason I didn’t read 14 was because one of the books was 754 pages long and took me 2 days. Anyhow, [...]
