Lawrence "The Dreamer" Chen's Blog

that's commit to lifetime service for my TiVo HD's. Hard to believe that I'm coming up on 2 years with my first TiVo HD. First year I did monthly fee on a 1 year commitment, and when that was ending, I opted to pay for a year in advance. As that nea… more »

It seemed strange, and it turned out to be kind of difficult to do.A while back I had swapped the cable company's HD DVR for another TiVo, and soon after I noticed something missing. I could no longer tell the time while watching TV. I wasn't too w… more »

Wonder if the people at Xantrex or Amazon.com are wondering what's with all the PowerSource 400s I've been buying? The latest acquisition brings the total to 5. With the latest being the 3rd unit in one room. Somewhere in a past shuffle/outage...I… more »

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 »

So, I have been falling behind on podcasts for some time...Originally, I was using TiVo Desktop Plus to convert from iTunes and push out to my TiVo HD. But, it wasn't working too reliably....so it was one of the reasons I pulled the trigger on getti… more »

With the coming fall season, it was starting to look like that 4 tuners of my current two TiVo HDs might not be enough to cover my recording needs. So, I was trying to work getting another TiVo HD into my budget. And, figuring out how it would fit into… more »

I rated this 4 stars.:rs::rs::rs::rs::ys:I wonder if there'll be more....Watching this stream was hard for some reason....I first started watching it on my Cox HSI connected TiVo HD, I saw that it was an HD stream...so I thought I made th… more »

Even though I was up before noon and could do something dangerous, I got lazy and procrastinated the morning away. Continuing the lack of motivation and go out and do stuff, I jumped into the latest equipment shuffle.I started by turning off the UPS… more »

I got the Lasko 52" Oscillating Pedestal Fan that I had talked about earlier. I was on Amazon.com yesterday, when I discovered that something I had been waiting weeks to hear about was on its way by UPS. And, UPS tracking showed that it would arrive to… more »

Well, I've discovered a problem. The remote codes for my TiVo HD seem to conflict with the Honeywell fan.And, if it conflicts with that fan it'll probably conflict with other fans....such as the Lasko tower fan that bumped this fan to the livingroom… more »

Yeah, NetFlix asked me about this. :cool:I was looking around on NetFlix website trying to figure out how to report video problems of instant viewed material. But, couldn't find anything.At one point during the play back the video broke up and w… 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 »