I can’t remember when I first played with a ZX Spectrum. I know I must have come to the party relatively late since I was only 4 when it was released, unlike Chris who was old enough to have one at launch. This weekend he rescued one from his mum’s rubbish bin, complete in the…
ZX Spectrum nostalgia
By Howard | Published July 15th, 2008My 1080p HTPC: The Software
By Howard | Published June 26th, 2008As I mentioned in the last post, I’m running the Media Center (yes, that’s how they spell it) interface from Vista Ultimate to drive my HTPC. Out of the box Vista Media Center (VMC) is capable of playing DVDs and MPEG2 broadcast content – such as the output of a Hauppauge DVB-T or DVB-S TV…
My 1080p HTPC
By Howard | Published June 21st, 2008Part one of a series of posts where I record how I built my 1080p capable Home Theatre PC. Having ditched the increasingly expensive and irrelevant SkyHD last year, we’ve been watching what little broadcast TV we see via a Windows Media Centre machine upstairs connected to an Xbox 360 front end. This was fine…
The Almost Complete Life on Mars Soundtrack (Series 1)
By Howard | Published February 18th, 2007Life on Mars has just started again on the BBC – I’ve not got round to seeing the new episode yet (Sky+ has it stored away safely for me) but it seems the new series has provoked renewed interest in my previous post about the excellent soundtrack the first series had. It looks like the…
Jaffa! Kree!
By Howard | Published March 19th, 2006Bonus geek points to anyone who finds this funny.
Tivo Now Playing RSS Feed
By Howard | Published November 16th, 2005Yes, I am a geek. Here’s the now playing list from my Tivo presented in all it’s RSS glory inside Safari on the Mac: Download the code and installation instructions. I had to learn TCL to make this work. That’s a whole new language for me. Neat.
tivostatus for WordPress
By Howard | Published November 1st, 2005Some time ago I wrote a script to query my tivo for status and display it on this page. It was presented as an iframe on this site which called an ASP page hosted on my home network on an IIS box. It was an inelegant solution and I always intended to rewrite it in…
Streaming TiVo to the VideoLan Client
By Howard | Published September 20th, 2005Goal: Stream the contents of Tivo’s “Now Playing” to any machine on the network (wireless too!).
Tools needed: A network enabled Tivo (telnet, FTP, Tivoweb), the Tivo vstream binaries. A copy of VLC for your OS of choice, the tystream plugins for your version of VLC.
Bonus Settings: Configure “1-click” playback from your browser (IE on Windows).
No need to go out…
By Howard | Published February 14th, 2005No need to go out, as there’s been a lot to enjoy on TV over the last few months, the majority of it imported from America. I read an article a while ago (in the Times, I think) that pointed out that the UK and the US are going through a change of competency when…
TiVo Status!
By Howard | Published January 22nd, 2005I had a spare half hour, so I knocked together a script that will parse my TiVo’s Tivoweb info page and consolidate the recording information into a little status display, like so: The information is cached and will be updated once every fifteen minutes so as to not overload the TiVo itself. It’ll appear in…
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