Many sites say v8 of the WRT-54G routers cannot be flashed with DD-WRT….
Archive for the ‘IPTV’ Category
Bright people surround my life, but I am often surprised when conversation steers to HDTV. Many of these otherwise intelligent and technical savvy people make basic mistakes. HDTV is not a ‘core-comptency’ of mine, but I am confident that this is a list of some basics many people get wrong all the time: Video Cables: [...]
NAS, or Network Attached Storage is finally affordable to use at home. For a few weeks I have been running two $70 Coolmax CN-550 devices: This is an external USB drive with an RJ-45 ethernet port. My devices both have 320GB hard discs and allowed me to dismantle a dedicate file server PC Now we [...]
Just for the record: if anyone is considering a Plasma TV bear in mind that screen burn does happen. When buying mine early this year almost all the press were saying that it barely happened with old models, and is the same a CRT for the latest generation of Plasmas. Well with pretty light use [...]
Asus are the first out of the gate with one: http://usa.asus.com/products4.aspx?modelmenu=1&model=979&l1=12&l2=43&l3=0 A big sell to me is: Hide one in your attic or coal house and you have a theft proof network drive. This device also comes with Bitorrent, ftp etc capable client and servers, although no podcatcher support which would make it a done [...]
Update (2nd July): Since this post I have reverted back to using Juice Receiver which although not designed for video has fewer glitches. If anyone knows of a more reliable solution please let me know. IPTV is about where podcasting was when I started manually downloading podcasts in the summer of 2004 [i.e. in its [...]
For about two months I have been really looking forward to the 4.9 version of iTunes – I expected seamless podcast support and most importantly auto conversion to bookmarkable aac files. When you listen to number of podcasts I do you want a good podcast receiver. So what did I find: Intergration with iTunes is [...]
Update: Installation of Aureus from SourceForge and waiting a little over a day left Revelations.iso on my HD. Minutes later a DVD-RW was burned and placed in my DVD player. If you are downloading Revelations wait for the DVD download. The effects are still impressive but at DVD quality they do look like effects since [...]
