George L. Schmauch Jr.
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[quote=”shadymg”]
hopefully y’all saw the Fandango Visa Signatures deal for B1G1 free coupon over at Slickdeals.netnot on my plans to go see….it’s tough to justify paying to watch a movie outside when i just paid a lot to make my own home theater nice 🙂 that being said, the movie does look pretty good….except for Randy Couture…dude can fight, but terrible actor
[/quote]Terrible actor? While that wouldn’t surprise me, what movies have you seen him in? I wasn’t even aware he’d been in other movies.
[quote=”shadymg”]
hopefully y’all saw the Fandango Visa Signatures deal for B1G1 free coupon over at Slickdeals.netnot on my plans to go see….it’s tough to justify paying to watch a movie outside when i just paid a lot to make my own home theater nice 🙂 that being said, the movie does look pretty good….except for Randy Couture…dude can fight, but terrible actor
[/quote]Terrible actor? While that wouldn’t surprise me, what movies have you seen him in? I wasn’t even aware he’d been in other movies.
[quote=”jennyfur”]
In the meantime, a friend is letting me borrow his xbox media remote that he never uses, so at least I don’t have to use a friggin’ gamepad to navigate everything anymore.
[/quote]You know, the loss of the remote had never crossed my mind. I have backups of just about everything and could get by with certain other things failing until a replacement came in. But, the remote? Yeah, that would be tough! I guess I’d be stuck (re)learning the necessary shortcut keys.
[quote=”jennyfur”]
In the meantime, a friend is letting me borrow his xbox media remote that he never uses, so at least I don’t have to use a friggin’ gamepad to navigate everything anymore.
[/quote]You know, the loss of the remote had never crossed my mind. I have backups of just about everything and could get by with certain other things failing until a replacement came in. But, the remote? Yeah, that would be tough! I guess I’d be stuck (re)learning the necessary shortcut keys.
Seriously?!?! 😮 Don’t you have enough projects going on? As much as I’d appreciate it, don’t go out of your way for this.
Seriously?!?! 😮 Don’t you have enough projects going on? As much as I’d appreciate it, don’t go out of your way for this.
Damn. I was really hoping someone knew a way. 🙁 Oh well. Maybe in Windows 10.
Damn. I was really hoping someone knew a way. 🙁 Oh well. Maybe in Windows 10.
Is Steve Carrell as annoying in all his movies as he is on The Office? Between that and his role in Bruce Almighty, I decided I didn’t like him. I had a similar experience with Will Ferrell and Jim Carrey, but at least The Truman Show and Liar, Liar got me to give Carrey another chance. I still dislike most of Carrey’s movies, though.
Is Steve Carrell as annoying in all his movies as he is on The Office? Between that and his role in Bruce Almighty, I decided I didn’t like him. I had a similar experience with Will Ferrell and Jim Carrey, but at least The Truman Show and Liar, Liar got me to give Carrey another chance. I still dislike most of Carrey’s movies, though.
To be completely fair, I do have to admit that I had some memory in my HTPC go bad due to–what I assume to have been–power surges in my house. That went away after I put the HTPC on a UPS. So, while we can’t prove it, you may very well be on to something there.
I did like the Tivo when it was working, though, as did the wife. Their interface was perfect back then. Looking back, I’m still glad I went the SageTV route, though. I like the control I have over everything and the expansion capability much more than the Tivo interface was worth to me.
To be completely fair, I do have to admit that I had some memory in my HTPC go bad due to–what I assume to have been–power surges in my house. That went away after I put the HTPC on a UPS. So, while we can’t prove it, you may very well be on to something there.
I did like the Tivo when it was working, though, as did the wife. Their interface was perfect back then. Looking back, I’m still glad I went the SageTV route, though. I like the control I have over everything and the expansion capability much more than the Tivo interface was worth to me.
Due to my primarily HD content, I decided to use MKVs for everything I put on the server and it has been working quite well. It took a while to figure out how to get everything just the way I wanted it (default flags, etc) and perfect (ha!) the process, but I’m pretty content now.
Due to my primarily HD content, I decided to use MKVs for everything I put on the server and it has been working quite well. It took a while to figure out how to get everything just the way I wanted it (default flags, etc) and perfect (ha!) the process, but I’m pretty content now.
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I’ve owned several dozen Tivos over the past 10 years and I think I only had one hard drive failure in all that time. I’ve also never had a power supply failure or card reader issue.The series 1 DirecTivos did suffer from power supply failures, but it was still only on a small percentage of units. The same models had some hard drive failures, but the heat buildup inside these units was higher than usual which probably hastened the failure rates.[/quote]
I guess I’m really unlucky then, since I had 4 power supplies go in my units over the years and also 3 card readers. Mind you, my cards were never removed until the reader stopped working.
[quote]That being said, you can’t really blame Tivo for hard drive failures as they can just as easily occur in a PC as a Tivo (i.e., Tivo didn’t manufacture the hard drives). Power supply failures on later models could usually be isolated to a bad electrolytic capacitor on later models (easily diagnosed by a visual inspection). A pencil eraser could usually cure card reader problems by cleaning the contacts on the card.[/quote]
I can take exception to their choice in drives and their–in my experience–high failure rate, though. They may not have made the drives, but they did choose the manufacturer. Perhaps the faulty power supplies were even killing the drives. Who knows…
[quote]Overalll, I found the Tivo hardware to be extremely reliable.[/quote]
Either you’re really lucky or I’m very unlucky. As I said previously, with the amount of time and money being spent on repairing my Tivo units, the lost TV shows, the missed recordings, and the aggravation, I quickly realized that building my own HTPC with quality hardware would cost me LESS money. I even drew up a spreadsheet with the costs over the years and expected failures, then compared that to newer Tivo units, DirecTV DVRs, switching to cable, and an HTPC setup. SageTV won handily and I don’t have a single regret about the path I chose.
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