If you’ve been reading my previous postings here and here, you’ll know that I am in the midst of turning an unfinished room (~600 sq ft.) into a family room. This project has a limited budget so improvements like a projector didn’t make the cut. But I have bought items that will allow me clear up a lot of clutter […]
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If you at all interested in anything Home Theater related like I am, you will want to check out the Cedia 2011 Roundup that Andrew Robinson compiled over at HomeTheaterReview.com. Some of the big takeaways that I found was 4k, 4k and more 4k. 4k seemed to be the highlight of the show, from projectors to ultra wide screen HDTV’s, […]
Read morePoor Thor, if it was most any other week you would have been the easy pick, but alas not this one. For those not in the comic book “know,” Thor is a movie based on the same-titled comic book about a guy who’s a god in his world but gets shipped off to Earth as punishment (is it that bad?!) […]
Read moreWell I’ve been on a hiatus for a while and thought I would update everyone on my status. I’ve had some issues come up that took me away from regularly posting on the site that has now been put behind me. I am looking forward to writing some new articles and guides for the site so stay tuned for those. […]
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Hello Missing Remote readers. As this is my first blog posting, I would like to introduce myself. My name is Zach Christiansen (those of you who are observant already knew that) and I am a third year law student at Tulane University, with an undergraduate degree in Civil Engineering from Georgia Tech. I have always been “Technical Support” for my […]
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I don’t know if anyone else has experienced this annoyance, but whenever I switch to the input on my Onkyo receiver (TX-SR607) associated with my HTPC and Windows Media Center is already running, the resolution and aspect ratio get fouled up. Everything is much larger than I want it to be and TV playback from my Ceton Infinitv4 does not […]
Read moreScarface was an easy pick so I wanted to change it up, but it really is one of the great movies of all time, with a young Al Pacino as Cuban druglord. Fringe and The Office are great TV shows of course, and then a few decent films sprinkled throughout as well. Everything Must Go stars Will Ferrell but there […]
Read moreA short while ago I had a failure in my MythTV server. Luckily, all of my data was ok so I just transplanted the hard drives and tuners into my development system and was on my way again. While I had everything open it quickly became obvious exactly how loud my OS hard drive had become. I knew that it […]
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This sketch reflects the home theater related improvements I plan on making to my unfinished third floor. I’ve also elected to add Cat6 network drops to the four bedrooms on the second floor while I can still get behind the walls on the third floor. My reasoning behind this move is twofold. I wanted both the speed and reliability of […]
Read moreLet me paint a picture for you. Imagine a room that is 12ft x 10ft. You might be thinking to yourself that this room would make a nice guest bedroom. I’m sure that’s what the builder thought when he designed the house. Now I want you to fill that room with a love seat, an oversized chair, a coffee table […]
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