I have a Tivo Series 3 and a Tivo HD. On both of my systems, I was seeing channels that had a number in front of them (i.e. “1 Womens HD”). Any of these channels that had a number in front of them had no channel guide information and just stated “To Be Announced”. I [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Home Theater’
Our HDTV Update
If you remember a few posts ago, I mentioned that our 5 year old HDTV died. Kathy was just watching it and the picture went off and a light on the front panel started blinking. Generally not good. As a customer of this Pioneer Elite Rear Screen Projection TV (which is no longer made), we [...]
Our 5 year old HDTV died
We owned a first generation HDTV from Pioneer – a Pioneer Elite Pro 730HD. The picture is great and the size has been great for our space. Unfortunately, we have had several problems with it though. We have had problems with the tubes/guns not showing the image correctly and needing to be replaced – not [...]
Wireless Speakers
I have a need to put in 2 speakers in a certain location in my house (they happen to be in a bathroom area) and wireless would be a convenient way to go but… wireless speakers still need some form of power and that means battery or AC battery powered speakers need to be turned [...]
New Pronto NG’s via Ebay
As posted previously, I bricked a Philips Pronto NG touch screen programmable remote. Before these remotes were discontinued, they retailed for more than $400. They are very cool and I like them a lot. I had 2 of them for 2 rooms. Anyway, I ordered 2 on ebay at a severe discount. I received them [...]
VMWare’s Fusion (I’ve left Parallel’s)
I’m very dutiful about upgrading my versions of software and making sure that they are up to date and working as the developers tell us they should. I’ve actually purchased both VMWare’s Fusion and SWSoft’s Parallels and tried them both. I’ve actually preferred Parallels as it seemed simpler though perhaps it was nothing more than [...]
Returned Toshiba HD-DVD Player
Well, after about a week of using the two Toshiba HD-DVD players that I bought (see previous posts) I decided to return them. I had several motivations. First and perhaps least, the video from the Toshiba HD-DVD player was great but the video on upscaling DVD players is pretty good too. I know my kids [...]
Warner Bros in HD-DVD vs Bluray
Yesterday, the big news in many of my technology blogs was that Warner Bros had decided to switch from producing both HD-DVD AND Blu-ray movies which satisfy all customers wanting high definition content to deciding on only a single format. In a way, it doesn’t matter what the format was because it eliminates some portion [...]
Coax Connectors – Compression Fittings (Snap N Seal)
I’ve come through the school of hard knocks when it comes to low voltage wiring. I’m self taught but I believe that I know quite a bit. I’ve become quite proficient at coax, twisted pair wiring. My projects have been an extensive video distribution system for my TV (which has been Satellite but is now [...]
Onkyo TX-SR605 and HDMI
As I pointed out a bunch of posts ago, I updated equipment in my gym. I updated my TV to a 42″ LCD 1080P HDTV and I replaced the receiver to an Onkyo TX-SR605 (my selection was primarily due to the recommendations of The HT Guys where they have talked about this unit several times [...]
Programmable Remotes – Philips Pronto NG (TSU3000)
I’ve had a “Home Theater” system since it was nothing more than my TV hooked in to my amplifier and producing stereo sound. Now, I have 3 Home Theater’s in my house and I use programmable remotes to control them because using the remotes that come with the components mean too darn many remotes. Early [...]
HD DVD Player – Toshiba HD-A3
Kathy’s folks gave us a generous Christmas gift (they really didn’t need to but we are grateful anyway!). With some of it (and returning a upscaling DVD player I had just bought), I decided to get 2 HD-DVD players. I’m not really attached to either side of the format wars (HD-DVD vs Bluray) but since [...]
Update to Gym Theater
I had to tear down my gym while we were putting in the new windows so the crew could put the windows in (which look good, they did a great job!). I’ve put the gym back together now. A big part of the setup though was a new gym theater. In preparing for some new [...]
Started Looking for a TV
I’ve started the process of looking at TV’s. It’s not our main TV but to me, it’s an important TV. It’s for my Gym so I watch it nearly everyday for quite a while. I mostly watch movies though I watch a bit of TV (and as I watch TV, I’ve become increasingly needing HD [...]
DVD sales drop
A great post at HD Blog about DVD sales drop is worth checking out. I think this bit summarizes it though: A couple of things Hollywood should take note of when creating a DVD.? Take a look at the LOTR (Lord of the Rings) trilogy.? Up front they told consumers there would be two versions.? [...]