It’s clearly taken me a few days to get around to writing this. And that’s probably because I wasn’t that impressed with my Super Bowl watching experience. While the game was clearly in HD, it just wasn’t as impressive as I had hoped. The underwhelming experience may be because I had forgotten that we were [...]
Entries from February 2008
Only 5 More Hours
February 3rd, 2008 · No Comments
I’m pretty psyched up to watch the Superbowl on our new Panasonic PTAE2000U projector. Since we’ve finished our media room, we’ve really noticed the improved quality of the image over our old Sony HS10 when watching quality HDTV. I stress the word quality because it is clear not all HD is created equal and the [...]
Tags: Home Theater
More HD channels … but they’re SDV
February 2nd, 2008 · 1 Comment
On January 31, 2008, Time Warner Austin added more HD channels to their lineup (National Geographic, History Channel, Fox Business News, Versus/Golf, Lifetime Movie Network, etc.) Unfortunately for us Tivo lovers, they are ALL Switched Digital Video (SDV) which means that the Tivo can not tune them in. You see, SDV channels are not always [...]
Tags: Home Theater
Server upgrades
February 2nd, 2008 · No Comments
Just a quick note to say that the kimanddave.com “empire” is going to be undergoing a server upgrade shortly. Possibly even this weekend. Three weeks ago I bought a new AMD quad-core CPU (yes they’re not the fastest but I believe we need the multi-processor quad core capabilities more than we need a single core [...]
Tags: IT/Network