Came home this afternoon to find the power supply in my MCE box dead. Thought briefly about just ordering a new XPS 420 from Dell but that wouldn’t solve the problem of needing to record The Wire tomorrow night.
Scrounged up a power supply but it wouldn’t fit the stupid Cooler Master Cavalier case and I […]
Tag Archive for 'pvr'
I Hate Computers
05Jan08DVR Clog
30Mar05How come DVRs don’t have a vacation mode? The first Tivo box launched in like, 1999. Surely I’m not the first person in six years to fear coming home from three weeks vacation to find my DVR deleted a first-run episode of The West Wing to make room for a 24-hour King of the Hill […]
Praise Murphy
28Mar05So I cancelled Tivo the other day, and today I come home to MCE recording failures. It didn’t even appear to “know” that it missed the recordings — they still showed in the schedule for earlier in the day. Only after I re-scheduled one of the recordings did they miraculously disappear from the Schedule and […]
Farewell
26Mar05Last night I cancelled my Tivo service. Like most companies, Tivo forces you to call them to cancel. I hate that. Thankfully I only had to wait on hold for about 5 minutes.
The rep didn’t try to brow-beat me into staying. He didn’t trash Microsoft when I said I got an MCE box, and […]
Battery Monster
15Mar05Is it just me, or does the Microsoft MCE Remote eat up batteries as if they were Atkins-friendly? It just finished off it’s second set after not even six weeks of use. I’ve changed the batteries in my Tivo exactly once in almost two years, I’ve got other remotes that are much older and still […]
Comcast loves Tivo
15Mar05From the Tivo / Comcast Press release:
Under the terms of the agreement, Comcast and TiVo will work together to develop a version of the TiVo service that will be made available on Comcast’s current primary DVR platform. New software will be developed by TiVo and will be incorporated into Comcast’s existing network platforms. The new […]
Oh Bother
07Mar05As I turned off GT4 and fired up the (recently neglected) Media Center last Wednesday, I thought to myself that I should probably write some more about how much I love XP MCE. Then Murphy came knocking. He told me that he was unable to start recording Lost and that I should reboot and re-schedule […]
Ultimate HTPC Case?
18Feb05Scanning my bookmarks yesterday I came across A-Tech Fabrication’s HTPC cases. I’ve got no idea where that bookmark came from or how long it’s been there, but they have some rockin’ cases that are “machined from aircraft grade 6061-T6 heat-treated aluminum alloy” — no pansy-ass stamped and folded materials on the inside of these monster […]
