Lawrence "The Dreamer" Chen's Blog

My ReplayTVs that is.... Today, I canceled the rest of my ReplayTV subscriptions.I had canceled a subscription a while back when one of my ReplayTVs died. But, I continued with the other 4 monthly units. I still have the 2 lifetime units.I have… more »

One of the things I had grumbled about was now having to switch inputs on my Zektor HDVI5 more often than usual. Namely, going between my two TiVo HD's. The other two devices, my DVD player and the Cox HD DVR, were getting little use. Like, I'm only… more »

The 'New' TiVo HD arrived today. It was supposed to come yesterday, but the UPS delivery didn't happen until 15 minutes after I had given up waiting for it to show up. This time I booked the morning off, and waited those extra 15 minutes. Perhaps it… more »

Yesterday, I mourned the death of one of my ReplayTVs. I accepted it fairly quickly, since I use them less and less (due to more and more stuff on HD and having a TiVo HD). So I've set about removing it from my setup (can't seem to get to ReplayTV to… more »

Sometime early this morning, one of my ReplayTV's failed. Looks like the harddrive big the dust. :..( Guess if it doesn't start working on its own soon, I'll just see about unsubscribing it. I still have my other 6 ReplayTVs...and I hardly use any o… more »

I had been thinking that over the Xmas holidays, and then on New Year's....that I would replace the bulb in my Samsung HLN4365W1. It had been getting darker and darker for some time, and was beginning to annoy me...especially which watching TV shows and… more »

I've been catching up on various shows that I recorded during the summer (while I was busy securing a new job and relocating, etc.)....and the latest array is Eureka. I'm hooked. Unfortunately, my ReplayTV couldn't cope with the screwiness that is Sc… more »

Though it doesn't show up on Zap2it yet, and my HD-DVR says "Temporarily not available" for it (but it is saying that for all the 'basic' HD channels)....OTOH, when I tune to it on the HD Converter...it is bring up HBO-HD instead. The HD-DVR, on the o… more »

I had started the quest to research what cordless phone I would get to replace my current 5.8Ghz one, since it doesn't get along with the Amphony 1520. I had kind of narrowed it down to a 2.4Ghz phone that I had come across on eBay, a Uniden DCT646-3.… more »

I have cable TV and broadband again! :wave: Had to use my own modem, rather than the free one....the installer didn't have my details for what I had ordered, and therefore didn't have that equipment. But, better to get service....and he did land a… more »

Thanks to an "image constraint" flag on the new discs, movie studios could prevent any disc player from outputting a full-HD signal from that player's component-video jacks. Instead, you'd get a picture about the same as DVD-quality; to watch in HD, you… more »

They say they want us to hurry up and make the switch to digital. But, they still talking about off in 2009, there'll be the $50 converters available.... Well, obviously most people are going to wait until these $50 converters become available then.… more »