The MPAA is once again trying to push forth "Selectable Output Control" which would give the MPAA and movie studios the ability to disable the analog output of set-top boxes at will. This would leave anyone not using a digital connection such as HDMI to have to replace their televison and/or other hardware such as set-top boxes. This would also […]
Read moreWhile this wont have an affect on myself as I don’t subscribe to cable, I was really hoping the FCC was going to stick it to the cable companies and not allow them to enable "Privacy Mode". Now the cable companies will be forcing DTAs on customers when the could have easily used the integrated QAM tuner integrated into newer […]
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I recently wrote an article about the various methods to get Mythtv on a Windows based system. Today I’m writing a little bit more about my attempts at the Windows port of the actual Mythtv application. I have been working at getting the Mythtv for Windows port working on my system for about a year now, ever since I […]
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As most of you probably know, I’ve been using Mythtv for my HTPC software of choice for quite some time now. It has been very stable for me to use and I’ve had it running in my house (barring system hardware destruction) for about 4 years now. Since we found out that my daughter was on her way about two […]
Read moreWe welcome this post from guest blogger Andrew Van Til. Also known as Babgvant, Andy has been a longtime contributor in the HTPC space and is an expert on file codecs, formats and such. He’s also the creator of the world famous DVRMSToolbox application which removes your commercials from your recorded TV programs. I’m no fan of codec packs, more […]
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I recently found myself sitting in the family room and I realized something. My receiver has only been calibrated once since I pulled it out of the box about 10 years ago (has it been that long already?). Needless to say, we’ve moved since then, and re-arranged our family room three or four times at least. As you can […]
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I recently came across a post from C|Net regarding Microsoft’s Windows Media Center, calling it one of the decades 25 biggest flops in technology. Here’s the excerpt: Windows Media Center Edition was the enhanced version of Windows XP that featured multimedia extras and a special user interface optimized for viewing on a TV screen. It never really took off. Solution: […]
Read moreSo my first taste of freedom was installing Windows 7 on my Athlon 3200+ with ATI IGP. Vista performance on this "Designed for XP" laptop was miserable at best, downright crappy at the worst. Hulu barely performs and often stuttered on 480p content. If you can believe it, I could not even carry a webcam conversation without it stuttering horribly. […]
Read moreAfter getting EventGhost up and running to integrate PowerDVD 9 with SageTV, I took a look at Hulu Desktop. Integration was pretty straight forward as all of the keyboard commands were available in the software. I’m too lazy to write a plugin, so instead I pulled all the relevant XML from my save file, and you can just copy/paste it […]
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As you are likely aware of by now, the United States is about to go through a changeover from analog Over-The-Air (OTA) broadcasts to Digital. We at MissingRemote.com would like to make sure that all of our affected readers are prepared for this to happen. If you are receiving your TV signals OTA and if you are tuning them with […]
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