Lawrence "The Dreamer" Chen's Blog

Was going through my photo collection and saw that it had been over two years since I last snapped a shot of "My Mess". So, here's what it looks like today: As you an see there are still empty spots in my setup, some more obvious than others. The… more »

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 »

I was writing a comment on the NetFlix blog (about when captions won't appear in Instant....and that one of the reasons I prefer DVDs to watching in a theater is that I can have english subtitles to follow along with all the dialog. I also often turn on… more »

The government went and made things all confusing.Analog TV seems to be ending around here at various times tonight, keeping with the previous date of February 17th as the end of analog TV. While some might see it continue until June 12th.:lalal… more »

Today, I came home late from work...and found sitting on my doorstep that FedEx has left the TiVo HD DVR there. Odd, when I ordered the Cox HD DVR, they wouldn't do that...and even though I waited at home all day by the front door, they claim that I was… more »

Forgot to mention that I've switched back to using the Terk HDTVlp antenna with the Samsung SIR-T451. more »

In a moment of insanity, I saw somebody selling a 'new' Samsung SIR-T451 on eBay. So, I threw in a bid and won it. The timing was kind of poor as I was about to embark for LISA, so I knew it would be one big item waiting for me when I did get aroun… more »

Oh yeah...during the blog move, I picked this item up from the UPS Store. I got a black one. I unpacked and placed it under my TV, though I don't have much in the way of cables to put it into service. And, I don't yet have much need for it....the… more »

As the impending start of the new fall season, I noticed that my OTA HDTV tuner wasn't getting a signal for some reason..... At first, because it was like 2am, I thought maybe it was because WIBW-HD was off the air. But, since it wasn't working this mo… more »

Actually, it is Zap2It that will be dead. And, with that deadline looming, I've been trying to decide when to make the leap from the very stable WiRNS 1.3.2.21 version to the Preview release of 2.0.0.0 :**: I had been holding off for a variety of rea… more »

Look at all the empty spots....what will I fill them with.... more »

In my continuing quest to receive Fox in HD, I picked up this antenna....which says it can get signals up to 45 miles away (Fox-HD is ~43 miles away). Unfortunately, this didn't work out. I'll switch back to my HDTVlp in a bit, because it works bette… more »