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// February 11th, 2010 // No Comments » // HDTV Bits, TiVo Bytes
Does March 2010 hold the key to a new generation of HD DVR and/or the successor to the TiVo HD / TiVo Series 3 of DVR from my beloved company, TiVo? I hope they have something special, and it’s not just moving the CableCard slot to the back in the scans people have posted of the TIVo Premier.
Tivo to unveil new DVR March 2?
TiVo’s Big Announcement Could Be Full HD Support and UI Overhaul
// June 20th, 2009 // No Comments » // Gaming, HDTV Bits
A couple of quick posts this evening. So you think it’s fun playing Gears of War 2 on your LCD HDTV? Now imagine a little bit bigger screen, like the huge display at the Dallas Cowboy’s stadium. Now that’s some real big gaming.
Giant Cowboys Stadium LED Wall Caught Playing Xbox 360 During Downtime Update: Video!
// June 2nd, 2009 // No Comments » // HDTV Bits, Local (Raleigh Durham), Sports Stuff
It looks like now that the Canes are out of the Stanley Cup (and the Penguins are struggling in the finals), the RBC Center is upgrading its central hanging, meaning it’s getting four updated high definition screens. There must be a lull in the scheduled events at the arena. It is early in the summer concert season.
Follow the progress and process here and view the RBC Center’s live webcam.
// May 19th, 2009 // No Comments » // HDTV Bits, TV Talk
This is a sad and unexpected note from Time Warner. While most television providers, both cable and satellite are competing and scrambling to add more and more high definition, Time Warner has just announced it is dropping Mark Cuban’s all HD network HDNet, and I’m assuming its sister high definition network, HDNet Movies.
I’ve got to admit, it’s been awhile since I’ve watched anything on the network, but in the past, I’ve watched their NASA coverage, Smallville and Nothing But Trailers. Time Warner’s P.R. director Robyn Watson said, “Being in HD is not enough,” but I thought the network did a commendable job of offering a good mix of original high definition content, along with network HD reruns.
Way to go, Time Warner! They’re probably making room for a couple more shopping networks.
// May 4th, 2009 // No Comments » // HDTV Bits, Local (Raleigh Durham)
A bit more high definition love for the Raleigh-Durham Time Warner Cable lineup – at the end of the month (May 28th to be exact), it looks like we’ll be getting Smithsonian HD added to the lineup, and that HD Net will be moving from the HD package down to being included with just the digital tier.
Originally from GoGoRaleigh.com
// April 8th, 2009 // 5 Comments » // HDTV Bits, Personal Crap
So the Keefer household is in the middle of tightening our belts as the baby’s due date gets closer and closer (albeit we’re still at T-Minus 4.5 months to go, but still) and Amanda starts seeking a new job, but we’ve come up against some annoying roadblocks on reducing bills with a few of our providers:
// March 28th, 2009 // No Comments » // HDTV Bits, Local (Raleigh Durham), TiVo Bytes, TV Talk
It looks like Time Warner is continuing to add to the HD package here in the Raleigh-Durham, North Carolina area, offering up even more high definition channels, and with the recent initialization of the SDV adapter rollout, we’ll actually get to see them!
The following channels are going live next Thursday, April 2:
When I told Amanda about the new channels, she commented that it wouldn’t be long before our whole lineup was HD. While, it’s not right around the corner, won’t that be great, when 480i is the exception, rather than the rule? With the recent addition of the SDV adapter in our household, everything we watch regularly is in HD. All the TiVo’s season passes are HD.
I told her if this keeps up, we’re going to have to upgrade the HD TiVo’s internal HD, or go with an external drive to upgrade its capacity. As it is now, you have a couple of high def sporting events on there, and the hard drive is full!
// March 24th, 2009 // No Comments » // HDTV Bits, TiVo Bytes, TV Talk
Well late last week, we finally got a letter from Time Warner Cable saying that the tuning adapters were available now for those of us with TiVo HD’s and Tivo Series 3s. Ours arrived today. I just hooked it up and it’s now up and running.
The Cisco-branded box is probably 6 inches shorter in width than our TiVo HD, and maybe 3/4 the depth. You basically hook the coax from the wall to the SDV adapter, then another short coax from the Adapter to the TiVo. You then run a USB cable to the TiVO from the SDV adapter, plug in its power, and you now have two way communication for those SDV channels, which it turns out are a lot here in the Raleigh-Durham Time Warner lineup.
I did though have to pull up Time Warner’s support chat to talk to an agent though, as we were still not receiving the following HD channels:
USAHD, BRAVOHD, DSCHD, APLHD, GRNHD, FAMHD, DISNHD, CNBCHD, SCIFIHD, MLBHD, CNNHD, VSHD, FOXHDSO, SPEEDHD ESPNHD, TLCHD, or LIFEHD.
He sent a signal to the SDV adapter and then I had to power it off and back on, and now we’ve got all our HD channels. Very cool! Now if there were something in HD I actually wanted to watch playing in HD at the moment.
// March 16th, 2009 // 1 Comment » // HDTV Bits, Local (Raleigh Durham), Tech, TiVo Bytes, TV Talk
So I’ve posted about numerous times (here and very recently here) about how Time Warner Cable has embraced switched digital video (SDV) to deliver more and more of their channels – especially the HD lineup. Amanda and I were flipping through the HD lineup the other day, and there a ton of high definition channels offered now, and most of them are unavailable currently for us to watch through the TiVo HD and its cablecards used to decode channels (in lieu of a cable box), because of the SDV technology. Basically, anyone using a cable card in their TV, DVR, media PC, etc. cannot tune into any SDV channels. TiVo has been working on a way around this and cable companies have started rolling out the technology.
// February 12th, 2009 // 1 Comment » // Film, HDTV Bits, Tech
So after a lot of research, a lot of waiting for pricing to drop, we’re finally gonna go Blu-Ray to finally have some high definition movies in the living room. I’ve got a couple ideas of films that will rock in Blu-Ray’s high definition format:
The Matrix
The Dark Knight
Serenity
You all have other suggestions for films to show off the new Blu-Ray?
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