Sick Beard is a (terribly, terribly named) application that downloads TV episodes from newsgroups—as opposed to BitTorrent—moves and renames them, and even fetches artwork and episode information (.NFO files) for use with XBMC. If, for any reason, you want to avoid BitTorrent and go with newsgroups instead, go aheard and install SABnzb+ for downloading purposes, [...]
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I received the D-Link Boxee Box yesterday, tested it out, and posted a thorough review on Amazon.com.
I like the product a lot; it completely blows the WD TV LIVE I have out of the water in all areas, and it offers a lot of good content that I otherwise not know anything about. Even the social aspects [...]
This is a simple script I wrote to perform one-way sync to mirror my server’s media folder on my WD TV LIVE‘s external hard drive. I have to run such a script because the wifi-N signal in my TV cabinet is not sufficient to stream HD video, and the WD TV LIVE doesn’t appear to [...]
Note: These instructions are an update of a previous post. I updated my instructions to include the download of the transmissionrpc plugin, and to include the cron job definition I use. These instructions apply to FlexGet 1.0r1377.
When I read posts on LifeHacker and Gizmodo sometimes, I figure that everybody else in the world is downloading [...]
TVNamer is a Python application that will automatically renames TV episode files to a clean, consistent, and useful format. If you rip your DVDs, or download torrents (for shame!) on your server, you might find the “tvnamer” Python script very useful. I am running this on my Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid Lynx server right now, and [...]
When I read posts on LifeHacker and Gizmodo sometimes, I figure that everybody else in the world is downloading TV episodes via BitTorrent, and doing it using RSS feeds and an automated process. That can’t possibly be true, but I figured that if other people do this, I should be able to figure out how, [...]
I finally figured out a good preset for HandBrake to encode DVD videos for my new TV, the Samsung PN50B650 plasma. The resultant video files work on the USB stick as well as via DLNA, which is what I was looking for. I based this preset off the “Television” default preset that comes with Handbrake. [...]
My wife and I bought a new TV and received it a few days ago, and I’d like to share our experiences with it. It’s a great set, overall. It’s a 50″ plasma, the Samsung PN50B650.
(I’ll post pictures soon. I’m more a writer than a photographer.)
Video and Screen
The picture looks fantastic. After fiddling with CNET’s [...]
