Aaron Ledger

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Thanks for the update, John. Someday I’ll get around to hooking my TA back up to see if Cox San Diego is sending down the upgrade.

I don’t currently use mine because I watch none of the channels requiring a TA. To Cox’s credit, they put a bunch of SD channels that probably have the least viewers on the TA list.

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Do you need/want a universal remote or just a remote for WMC?

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Just received my V+100 SSD from Amazon today. I can’t wait to finish up the first of three Sandy Bridge builds I am doing.

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Mentioned on SD. If you missed out on the 96GB from Amazon, there’s an even better deal from Buy.com. Use this $10 off coupon and then buy the SSD. Total will be $90 shipped after rebate!

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An alternative way to close and open WMC upon standby and resume is to use Andrew’s Standby Helper.

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I can’t wait until we get to $1/GB on the 120GB SSDs.

I forgot to mention that the V+100 drives have built-in garbage collection which makes them useful for non-TRIM supporting OS as well.

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Be aware that any source device sending Dolby Digital (or any other compressed format) will not be able to control the volume of that audio unless it decodes it, changes the volume and then re-encodes it.

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I think there’s a few things Hulu could bring to Google.

1. Google has shown it has not been able to deal successfully with content producers in the past and a naivety towards the industry at large. On the other hand, Hulu has been able to work deals.

2. Hulu is in a much larger set of living rooms via connected TVs and STBs, and Google TV has been ineffectual.

3. The Hulu brand has a built-in meaning to consumers as a service which offers TV and movies delivered via Internet whereas Google has no brand that does that. At best, Google has You Tube which is associated with non-professionally generated content meant to be viewed in a web browser.

4. Hulu has technology built around delivering advertising within its content and advertising partners.

5. Hulu has a software platform designed around discovering and delivering broadcast TV and movie content.

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As long as someone shows up with cash, I don’t believe content producers care that it is Google or Comcast. I’m sure they would love to sell to both.

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I recommend you try cabling direct from server to client to eliminate any external network influences and see if the problem still exists. If it does, try setting NIC Interrupt Moderation on the client to “Extreme” and increase the client NIC Rx buffer to 1024 to see if that has any affect.

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Interesting. On the 3300, the sub is active on any mode. There’s even a page in the manual detailing modes and which speakers are active in those modes.

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Have you ever played with the transmit and receive buffers in the Intel drivers? When I used to run a HDHR, I found that by tweaking the receive buffer higher to 1024 and using “Extreme” for Interrupt Moderation, I was able to eliminate recording glitches on a machine.

This was a bit of a different scenario as the HDD I/O seemed to be the problem and by increasing the buffer size, I apparently was able to give enough time for the I/O bottleneck to dissipate and buffer to be serviced.

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Was there stuttering of Blu-ray stream during this time period?

Did you cease blu-ray playback before taking the screen capture on the server? I ask because disk and network usage fall off about halfway through the graph.

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If you’re using Gigabit, no. The ports will auto cross as needed. Otherwise, you will need a crossover.

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For your sub output, do you have your speakers set to small? Small should force the low frequencies to the sub.

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