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    3D television might be bad for you!

    WARNING: 3D Video Hazardous to Your Health — Reviews and News from Audioholics Seems that some research indicates that viewing 3d material frequently can lead to problems with the eyes ability to perceive 3d, especially in children. "Stereopsis, a result of the frontal placement of...
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    Sunday Ticket discounts

    I've seen people in various threads saying they're getting the $20/six months credit for the sunday ticket package, but I dont seem to be having much luck with it. I was wondering if anyone who has gotten this discount to let me know what the parameters were to it. I called to cancel...
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    Bad, bad, bad...bad vibrations...

    Bad, bad, bad vibrations | ZDNet Interesting article where they measure the effects of vibrations on hard drive performance. Seems that drives exposed to vibrations - even those created by adjacent disk drives in the same chassis - can perform as much as 50+% lower than a vibration-free...
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    Pretty amusing for the techie types

    :tux: I'm sure someone else somewhere may have tried this and gotten it to work, but I thought it'd be fun to throw out there for some peoples amusement. I recently picked up an acer aspire revo, which is a tiny little box with a single core Atom netbook processor in it coupled with an nvidia...
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    Disney channel guide data?

    Can someone else check this out? Not sure if its a CE problem, a guide data issue or something hosed on my boxes. Disney channel guide data is totally wrong for me. For the last ~3 days whatever is recorded isnt what it says it is, and if I go to live tv and tune disney xd (292) whatever is...
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    Erratic sunday ticket/gamesearch

    Man is NFL sunday ticket just not working out for me this year. I had read somewhere that games wouldnt be blacked out on the ST HD channels even if the game was being carried on the locals, and thats been the case for me this year. Until this week. I got hosed the last two weeks when...
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    "Classic" directv2pc and 'an error has occurred'

    My wife still runs the original beta of the directv2pc program, which is the one that doesnt have the GPU acceleration and the HDCP protection. Her old laptop is amply powered with a 2GHz core 2 duo, but has a wimpy 950 gpu and no hdcp. The newer directv2pc releases wont let her play any...
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    HR2x CE Release 10/9 v.364

    Systems in this CE HR20-100 • HR20-700 HR21-100 • HR21-200 • HR21-700 HR22-100 • R22-100 • R22-200 HR21Pro • HR23-700 Window of opportunity to download: Friday, October 9, 2009 11:00PM - 2:30AM ET Saturday, October 10, 2009 11:00PM - 2:30AMET Risk Level for this Download: Customer Candidate...
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    Changes to upcoming recordings dont always 'take'

    I had a show that I'd added an hour to in order to catch the show immediately following, because I was at the 50 SL limit. I later freed up an SL slot, took the extra hour off the recording and put in a SL for the show I wanted. However, several days later the receiver recorded the extra hour...
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    You're not insane...

    ... ;) A couple of times today while watching some football games I recorded this afternoon and without having touched the remote control for several minutes, the blue play bar popped up at the bottom and showed the red progress bar about 15-30 minutes prior to what I was watching, then jumped...
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    Woot has the Linksys WGA600N wireless N adapter for $32

    Woot : One Day, One Deal (SM) This is the adapter thats supported by the directv receivers so you dont need to preconfigure them. Dang good price, its refurbished. Probably DOA's or ones people couldnt get configured properly and returned. $80 from directv...and thats about the lowest price...
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    NO mrv in the current CE 9/28

    Since it wasnt posted on the "other site", but intimated by having the hr21/22/23 release notes specifically saying "no MRV", while the notes for the HR20 dont specify, there is no MRV in the HR20 release. Just some user interface changes.
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    NR is rolling out

    Here it comes...
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    Odd little problem...

    Any of you satellite signal gurus want to take a swipe at this one? My upstairs HR20-100's been working fine, havent really had any obvious issues. I was checking satellite signals and noticed that tuner 2 on 103c was low (60) and took longer to lock than tuner 1. All the other sats and...
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    Interesting finding on troubleshooting MRV

    Yes, I'm still running a "vintage CE", 0x339, the last one with MRV in it. Like many others, since the 'universal playlist' went in, I started having problems with MRV and receiver stability. My receivers would go about 2.5-3 days before MRV would start splatting like crazy to an unwatchable...
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    Interesting to see how this affects satellite and cable sports package pricing

    I see that Roku has announced an update to the Roku player that lets you hook it up to your MLB.COM premium account. You'll be able to watch most out of market games and in market games 90 minutes after they air, along with being able to watch any game from the last 7 days. $34 a year, plus...
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    Nice switch for someone looking to hardwire their mrv setup

    Amazon.com: D-Link DGS-2208 8-Port 10/100/1000 Desktop Switch: Electronics@@AMEPARAM@@http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/31hjB0%2BRNNL.@@AMEPARAM@@31hjB0%2BRNNL The netgear DGS-2208, an unmanaged 8-port gigabit switch. Good architecture, good throughput, great reviews. Might give a little...
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    I'm starting to mistrust my free space indicator

    Wondering if anyone else is noticing that the free space available indicator seems to be rather generous over the last couple of weeks. I havent added up the hours of recordings to try and manually compare the results, but my 1TB box was sitting at around ~50% available before the four day free...
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    Playon for your HR receivers 1/2 price

    Playon is half price until the end of June, $19.99 normally $39.99. Use code "PLAYON1999" during checkout for the discount price. Playon runs on a desktop or laptop computer on your network, and provides a media feed to your HR series, an xbox 360 or playstation 3 to deliver netflix, hulu, etc...