Subscriber Keith Vogon wrote from Thailand Dear Terry. Whilst trying to find an answer via Google, I suddenly realized that I have a great Guru So here goes. I have been transferring my movies to a Western Digital Passport Hard Drive and suddenly realized I didn’t know how to connect it to my TV in [...]
Upgrading to SageTV Media Center software v7
I just upgraded the home theater PC software on my home theater PC from SageTV Media Center version 6 to the latest version (v7) of SageTV. I’m amazed…
What Else Is Needed For A Home Theater PC?
After you’ve built your base, expandable PC, there’s not a lot needed to make it into a home theater PC. Those required things are: home theater PC software, and a TV tuner card or TV tuner USB device If you’re going to use Windows 7, you can choose to use the Windows Media Center software [...]
Travel Access to a Home Theater PC?
As I wrote in another article, I’m using SageTV software to drive my home theater PC. I love it. More importantly, my wife loves it! SageTV costs about $80 for one license, which includes updates to the program schedule. One of he first configuration settings is to tell it my zip code and then to [...]
Upgrading My HTPC
With the consolidation of most of the shows we like to Monday nights and Friday nights, my HTPC was having scheduling troubles. You’d think that three TV tuner/encoder cards (Hauppauge PVR-250′s) would be enough, wouldn’t you? Well, not quite, even though they were for two years. The problem is that the different stations don’t run [...]
Digital Video Recorder or Home Theater PC?
Subscriber Bill DePierri wrote recently to ask about using a PC to record television. I’m already doing that with my home theater pc, which Bill has seen: Terry: We recently got a Cox DVR. It is pretty clunky with little flexibility. This got me to thinking about your comments about your PC-based DVR’s, especially since [...]
Running Your Computer 24/7
I am occasionally asked “is it OK to leave my computer on overnight?” or “can I leave my computer on all the time?” My answer is a resounding “yes, I do.” My desktop, my wife’s desktop, my Linux box and my Home Theater PC (www.terryshometheater.com/htpc) all run 24 hours per day, 7 days a week [...]
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