I upgraded my Gentoo box running MythTV to a new kernel and a new ivtv version. The only problem I had was that watching live TV no longer worked, and I need that to satisfy the wife even though we rarely watch TV regularly any longer. It seems the ivtv driver change the numbering scheme [...]
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Soccer World Cup in ASCII
This is just too cool. Try telnet ascii-wm.net 2006 during a soccer match and be amazed.
Transferring music ruled legal
Transferring music ruled legal – Technology – theage.com.au > Once the new laws are passed, “format shifting” of music, newspapers and books from personal collections onto MP3 players will become legal. The new laws will also make it legal for people to tape television and radio programs for playback later, a practice currently prohibited although [...]
0.19 – MythTV
Release Notes – 0.19 – MythTV The major changes in this release are: LiveTV rewritten to support saving buffered content while watching Signal Monitoring for DVB and pcHDTV recorders Ending times may be changed while recordings are in progress Playgroups allow for default playback options on recordings Channel changes can be made across tuners without [...]
CNN Pipeline review by PC Magazine
CNN Pipeline review by PC Magazine > You may have streamed the NBC Nightly News to your Web browser. You may have watched the Video Music Awards at MTV.com. But you’ve never seen Internet television quite like this. Yesterday marked the official debut of CNN Pipeline, a 24-hour, commercial-free online television station broadcasting from its [...]
Macworld UK – iTunes sells 3 million videos
Macworld UK – iTunes sells 3 million videos > “Customers have purchased and downloaded more than three million videos since their debut on October 12, making the iTunes Music Store the world’s most popular video download store,” Apple said. I’ve long been a fan of tv-on-demand, but since the major networks refuse to offer any [...]
Nokia holds fire on mobile gaming
Nokia holds fire on mobile gaming – vnunet.com > Nokia is holding off on mobile gaming for a few years and will not be building new versions of the N-Gage gaming phone. Not really a big surprise. If I want to play games, I’ll use a GameBoy or a PSP, and if I want to [...]
Television Executives Still Don’t Get It
Thomas Hawk’s Digital Connection: Television Executives Stilll Don’t Get It, How Greed Trumps Innovation and Why Their New Downloadable TV Services Suck >Although PVR ownership is growing there is still far too much money on the table for television executives to offer us anything compelling. Why innovate when there is still tons of dough to [...]
HDTV Recordings come to an end
The latest anti-piracy move will prevent you from making high-quality copies of broadcast TV programs. And the new "broadcast flag" technology enables all manner of other restrictions. Losing Control of Your TV This will apparently require all TVs sold in the USA to fit a chip which honours a broadcast flag set by the MPAA. [...]
24 again!
The last couple of days, MrsFudge and I have been busy catching up on 24 season one. So far, we’ve gotten to episode seven and I must say I’m pretty impressed. The plot is thickening, and I have yet to be bored. I have no idea what twists and turns the story line is going [...]