Man, it’s been a long-time since I posted.  I’m gonna break that streak by first admitting that I’m a clumsy idiot.  You see, Kimberly and I have recently gotten ourselves a Wii and while playing Wii sports, I hit our older black-and-white screened Pronto remote off of the back of a chair.  Normally, it falls [...]

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As of yesterday, Time Warner Austin has added an additional four new HD channels to the local cable lineup. As expected, these are all SDV (Switched Digital Video) which means that my Tivo can’t get them. Here’s the new lineup:

TLC HD (channel 1615) — The Learning Channel in HD. Seems to be [...]

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Earlier today, a friend asked me for advice on how he should paint his media room. After a bit of discussion, where I realized how much I thought the choice of color and finish had improved my own media room experience, I figured the topic would make for a good blog post. Hopefully [...]

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Kimberly told me that, in the middle of the day today while she was watching TV, the ‘Live TV’ remote button stopped toggling between tuners on the Tivo S3 and instead would only bring up the guide. This is the second time in a little over a week that this has happened to [...]

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