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Well here he go... There's a nasty mess brewing up in the Gulf of Mexico and we are going to get a bunch of rain and strong winds at the least. They are saying it has the potential to become a hurricane and that we should not be surprised if it does. Heavy rain, flooding and vicious mosquitoes will be back very soon.. :cry:

Already the winds have picked up here so I took down all my wind chimes, tied the cover down on my John Deere and used the rest of the rope to tie my big dishup pretty good. I left a little slack in it so I can move the dish several degrees each way but if the motor gives out in a high wind the rope will keep it from flopping all the way over and breaking.


Next week I'm going to borrow my folk's Openbox S9 to try and tweak my 1.2m dish for FSTV on 123. I still can't find it as I have nothing that can blindscan S2 and my two meters do not recognize S2 either.

Also, which forum would be the appropriate one to post in in regards to my "new" WD TV Live Plus thing? I'm getting the hang of it, I see a lot of potential there but I also see a LOT of limitations, restrictions and annoyances. I'm also pretty sad that it won't play my soaps that I bought on Amazon.com

When I was searching google for a way to add an internet stream to the WD such as Whitesprings.tv (I still like that channel, I always did) I stumbled across a bunch of stuff about people hacking these things to get more features out of them. So I'm wanting to hack mine but being ever cautious I want to do a lot of research first and talk to people who have hacked theirs already.


It's still a long way off from what I really want, an Azbox but for now it will have to do.

Oh, and I flipped out when I went to buy cables to hook the little devil up! $22 for a flippin video cable and $16 for the audio cable! HA!!!!!!!

I drove to every place in town and I couldn't do any better than $14 for the video cable from Big Lots. Walmart was the only one that had the audio cable (I guess it's a laser cable) and that was just too much!

I bought the video cable because I needed it NOW. All I get is sound out of the TV speakers and that's a big bummer because I'm used to the 5 speakers with the pc theater system. There's a sound cable that goes to a stereo box from the pc. The pc doesn't put out any sound through the tv at all and that's fine with me, I like the 5 speakers way better.

But the WD thing, it only puts sound to the TV speakers.
I looked at the manual for the TV and you can connect the laser sound cable from the TV to the stereo and turn the TV speakers off completely by the menu.

So I looked on ebay and I found the exact same laser audio cables that Walmart wanted $16 for. Guess how much? $2.25 each with free shipping from Montana !
$16?? HA!!!!! Not from this chick!! :rant:

I could have gotten the video cable almost as cheap too but I didn't want to wait a week, I wanted it NOW...

I guess my dream of having a "One box does it all" gadget is still a long way off, if ever...


(Oh, and someone sent me a PM but I can't reply because their mailbox is too full. )


Have a great day!