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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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, [...]

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Since we now have two Tivos, both later releases than the original series 1, we can now use the Multi-Room Viewing (MRV) feature. That is a feature that allows you to watch something recorded on one Tivo from another Tivo. Meaning you can watch something on your bedroom TV and Tivo even [...]

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