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I wasn't sure exactly which section to post this in, so I figured this was most appropriate.
I was just curious who here has some sort of HTPC and exactly what it's used for (OTA, FTA, streaming, etc).
My self-built computer's been slowly getting filled with drives and cards, and has become a complicated beast. It's used for general computing as well as media. The monitor is our 32" TV. Over the years I've added a USB OTA tuner, an internal OTA tuner, an internal DVB-S2 tuner (still waiting for a southern sky), and now an HDHomerun Prime. All the general TV watching is done through Windows Media Center (Win7 pro). Hulu (free), Netflix, and HBO GO are all done through Chrome. Torrented anime and DVDs are watched in VLC. I have music on D:, Anime and movies on E:, F: died, G: is some backup stuff, and H: is DVR, captured video (VHS), and my anime backup.
I'd like to simplify all of this, but so far everything still works fine, and the wife can operate it all without issue. The only concern right now is lack of storage space (out of nearly 4TB), which means I'll be converting a couple hundred episodes of shows over the next few weekends.
What's everyone's experience with HTPC's? Simple? Crazy? Not worth the effort? Totally awesome?
I was just curious who here has some sort of HTPC and exactly what it's used for (OTA, FTA, streaming, etc).
My self-built computer's been slowly getting filled with drives and cards, and has become a complicated beast. It's used for general computing as well as media. The monitor is our 32" TV. Over the years I've added a USB OTA tuner, an internal OTA tuner, an internal DVB-S2 tuner (still waiting for a southern sky), and now an HDHomerun Prime. All the general TV watching is done through Windows Media Center (Win7 pro). Hulu (free), Netflix, and HBO GO are all done through Chrome. Torrented anime and DVDs are watched in VLC. I have music on D:, Anime and movies on E:, F: died, G: is some backup stuff, and H: is DVR, captured video (VHS), and my anime backup.
I'd like to simplify all of this, but so far everything still works fine, and the wife can operate it all without issue. The only concern right now is lack of storage space (out of nearly 4TB), which means I'll be converting a couple hundred episodes of shows over the next few weekends.
What's everyone's experience with HTPC's? Simple? Crazy? Not worth the effort? Totally awesome?
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Hauppauge software isn't so hot, but their cards are great!
Where did you get the WinTV Nova-S2 from? I actually wanted to get one of them for quite a while now and try it, but Hauppauge hasn't had them available for some time now in the US, but they do still sell them through Amazon UK for about $100 USD. It seems like they're moving away from making sat cards completely.
My ATSC cards are Hauppauge HVR-1600s and they've been great. I wasn't at all sure with the WinTV Nova-S2 being European if it'd work here States-side, but I'd figured it'd probably work seeing as how it does DVB and DVB-S2. If a custom Lo can be entered, seems like it should work.
The only other thing I could see possibly wrong with it was with XP Media center the WinTV Nova-S2 had to use software for encoding and could only do DVB, but the XP WMC couldn't handle the digital ATSC correctly either and couldn't send it to extenders at all, I'm thinking Win 7 WMC wouldn't have a problem. When you get a clear Southern sky, let me know if it works!
Where did you get the WinTV Nova-S2 from? I actually wanted to get one of them for quite a while now and try it, but Hauppauge hasn't had them available for some time now in the US, but they do still sell them through Amazon UK for about $100 USD. It seems like they're moving away from making sat cards completely.
Just found one on the 'bay for a decent price (one left) if you're still interested.
Note: you'd need a copy of the WinTV CD to install any more than the basic drivers. It's available at Hauppauge's website for $10ish, or I might have an extra one around somewhere in exchange for gas money or some cheap sat equipment you don't want.
Notenote: at least in WinTV, it wants info for a universal LNB.
Kitty, you've helped me out once again, thanks a lot! I just bought it, can't wait to get it and try it out!
I have two WinTV CDs that came with my HVR1600s and a few others kicking around here, so I think I'll be all set with that, if not, I'll take you up on your offer. Thanks again!
I got the card and it's working in Win 7 Media Center, WinTV and a demo version of DVB Viewer that I downloaded. I haven't tried it on more than my one fixed dish on 97w yet, but it looks like Media Center will support up to four LNBs, so four fixed dishes. Gonna dig out a DISEqC switch and see how it works with more than one dish in WMC right now. The only thing I noticed with WMC was that it couldn't auto-detect the card and it made me set it up manually, but it wasn't hard to do at all. For $31, this was a good deal!
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Direct YouTube Link - AI Can Self-Replicate: Unplugging the Threat! #shorts
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Direct YouTube Link - AI Can Self-Replicate: Unplugging the Threat! #shorts
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Time for another AWESOME video from the TWIT Network!
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Direct YouTube Link - AI Model Poisoning: The Hidden Threat on Hugging Face #shorts
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Sometimes a thread gets so many posts in it that is can cause issues for the server so that why today we introduce The Song Name Game Part 3!
So let the game continue!
The last song was added by Bobby who posted...
One Meat Ball - Andrews Sisters
CONTINUE ON AND HAVE FUN! WELCOME HOME TO SATELLITEGUYS.US!
Here are the original rules for the game as posted by WebbyDude back in 2006. http://www.satelliteguys.us/threads/68645-Song-Name-Game
Just name a song title and the band who performed it. The next person does the same thing, but needs to list a song title or band name which includes a word from the previous entry. Pick songs from any genre.
Example:
Long Live Rock and Roll -- Rainbow
Rainbow in the Dark -- Dio
Another example:
Ride the Lightning -- Metallica
Lightning Strikes -- Ozzy Osbourne
Get it?
An additional note: we all know that song titles, sometimes, use profane words. Because this is a family friendly website it is advised that you clean up that title up a bit. This is accomplished by using something like sh!t instead of the real word. Thanks....
So let the game continue!
The last song was added by Bobby who posted...
One Meat Ball - Andrews Sisters
CONTINUE ON AND HAVE FUN! WELCOME HOME TO SATELLITEGUYS.US!
Here are the original rules for the game as posted by WebbyDude back in 2006. http://www.satelliteguys.us/threads/68645-Song-Name-Game
Just name a song title and the band who performed it. The next person does the same thing, but needs to list a song title or band name which includes a word from the previous entry. Pick songs from any genre.
Example:
Long Live Rock and Roll -- Rainbow
Rainbow in the Dark -- Dio
Another example:
Ride the Lightning -- Metallica
Lightning Strikes -- Ozzy Osbourne
Get it?
An additional note: we all know that song titles, sometimes, use profane words. Because this is a family friendly website it is advised that you clean up that title up a bit. This is accomplished by using something like sh!t instead of the real word. Thanks....
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Several Dish offers showed up today in my account. Once you choose one the rest are removed. Offers were Showtime, Starz, AMC and others.
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Not for me, mines has no mention of how long aka the offer period and the Terms and conditions the $0.00 is good for. All I see is one can lose $5.00 if you decide to remove it before day 31 after you add it to the account.
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I created this thread on the original Edgecutter Cutting Edge Forums site. It's simply a place for those to review the latest software available for those using Windows 10 and Windows 11. To date it has received 112,559 views. I have been asked by staff to continue this thread here.
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To each there own but I've found that Windows can't do much more than Linux can. Can't have everything.
For niche use cases, yes I agree. Kali for ethical hacking and security testing, and running a Cacti server for network monitoring are the two things I have experience in. Plus thousands and thousands of other things, but for every day use I just can't see it. The owner of the GMRS repeater that I pay to access is changing the Tx DPL tones tomorrow, while Chirp is available on Linux, the software to program my MXT500 is not.To each there own but I've found that Windows can't do much more than Linux can. Can't have everything.
I run Fedora and Ubuntu in VMWare, honestly I don't care much for the UI of either of them and I don't feel like spending days/weeks to customize the UI to make it look Windows-like when I could just use Windows. The cartoonish dock at the bottom of the screen reminds me of Apple products.
As I said above, and, FWIW, I run Win11 Pro and Arch on separate 250 GB NVME drives, using F8 to select which I boot to, with a 1TB SSD for storage, accessible to both OSs and a third formatted Nvme I want to use to learn Kali. It was much faster to setup Arch than it was to strip down Windows. Windows still takes much longer to boot.
For some reason, the satelliteguys.us site is loading a lot slower than usual on both Chrome on my Asus laptop and Safari on my iPhone.
I'm also seeing longer appearances of the blue bar at the top and the "3 blue bars" loading symbol.
Is anyone else also having the same problem? Thanks in advance.
I'm also seeing longer appearances of the blue bar at the top and the "3 blue bars" loading symbol.
Is anyone else also having the same problem? Thanks in advance.
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Remember folks... just like DNS... its always Foxbat. 
WTF… …What the Foxbat!Remember folks... just like DNS... its always Foxbat.
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wow what a kick in the balls!!! the wife blames you when things don't work now scott's blaming youWTF… …What the Foxbat!
I know. Here's what Scott has in store for me if I get out of line:wow what a kick in the balls!!! the wife blames you when things don't work now scott's blaming you
Help, I'm a little confjused on the activation process.
I purchased the Joey 4 from Solid Signal and shipping box has Call 866 726-4282 to Avtivate new Receiver. That number is Solid Signals number.
I googled and that search said call Dish to activate. I assume that is correct unless this requires a 2 step process.
Please let me know.
Thanks
I purchased the Joey 4 from Solid Signal and shipping box has Call 866 726-4282 to Avtivate new Receiver. That number is Solid Signals number.
I googled and that search said call Dish to activate. I assume that is correct unless this requires a 2 step process.
Please let me know.
Thanks
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All good called Dish and new Joey 4 is activated and working.
Old Joey 2 deactivated and no need to return.
Old Joey 2 deactivated and no need to return.
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i bought mine straight from dish as it was only $ 100.00 bucks!!! had the protection plan they came out removed and deactivated the 4k joey and activated and installed the joey 4.All good called Dish and new Joey 4 is activated and working.
Old Joey 2 deactivated and no need to return.
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Apple has finally released their Apple TV 4K with built-in Siri and a microphone so it can respond to your queries even if you don't have the remote. It also increases in price, to $299. I had been planning on updating my current Apple TV 4K streamers, but that's $600 for the two of them, and that's a pass at this point.
At $299, it had better come with 256 GB of Storage, Gigabit (or better) Ethernet, the latest HDMI tech and standards, and one year of free Apple One. But it probably won't…
At $299, it had better come with 256 GB of Storage, Gigabit (or better) Ethernet, the latest HDMI tech and standards, and one year of free Apple One. But it probably won't…
Apple TV 4K
Apple TV 4K. New Siri AI and hands-free control. Stunning picture and immersive HomePod surround sound. Works with your Apple and smart home devices.
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. apple's been making money off of software and not hardware for a while
they all do that anyways.. ever notice your cell phone slows down when you come up for an upgrade..
. apple's been making money off of software and not hardware for a while
The new curated multiview is now live.
While on many of the sports channels and non sports channels there is a multi view option button. It will pull up a side bar with many different multi view options.
While on many of the sports channels and non sports channels there is a multi view option button. It will pull up a side bar with many different multi view options.
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Really excited for this season with Kentucky having a new coach and some really exciting recruits. Probably won't last long, but here's hoping this season is great.
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